Douglas Elliffe Lindsay Matthews University of Auckland Douglas Elliffe is a former Head of Psychology and Deputy Dean of Science at the University of Auckland Lindsay Matthews is a Honorary Academic in the Psychology Department at the University of Auckland Can we toilet train cattle? Would we want to? The
In a time of universal deceit about climate change, telling the truth is not just a revolutionary, but a positively heretical act. Just ask, say, Bjorn Lomborg or Judith Curry. Even speaking from personal experience, nothing induces pure, spitting rage in a climate botherer so much as calmly reciting facts
In Douglas Adams’s Life, the Universe, and Everything, a spaceship is mistaken for a star moving across the heavens, and taken for a sign by the people below. As is anything and everything. When the rains came, it was a sign. When the rains departed, it was a sign.
With many devices rushing to connect to the IoT (Internet of Things), security does not seem to get a high priority before roll-out. Later on, the third-party security experts poke around and expose the vulnerabilities and the suppliers rush to slap Band-Aids over their poor programming. A
It’s sobering to realise that my own children, now in their 20s, have lived with the “War on Terror” as the background to their entire lives. They can barely remember 9/11, of course; they were toddlers, playing, oblivious to the telly on which those shocking images transfixed the
Covid-19 has meant that New Zealanders have had to sacrifice a great deal. They have missed funerals, weddings, births, and all manner of other special moments, National’s Climate Change spokesperson Stuart Smith says. “It seems a no-brainer to me that now is not the time for me
David Seymour ACT Leader Just last week Greens co-leader James Shaw said Parliament sitting was “putting lives at risk” by sitting in Level 4, and yet this week he’s prepared to fly to the COVID hot spot of Glasgow for climate talks. “James Shaw jumped on his moral
James Shaw flees an unsafe Parliament where lives are being put at risk to Covid hotspot Glasgow for a climate change conference. pic.twitter.com/uEfYtMb5qX — David Seymour (@dbseymour) September 9, 2021
David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. It is less than 60 days until COP26 convenes in Glasgow. We can expect a flood of climate horror stories (including flooding). But there will also be some discussion
Slowly and steadily, the globalist elite are giving up even pretending any more. National sovereignty is being steadily crushed under the foot of transnational oligarchies. Few worse than the UN. Despite its foundational principle of the sanctity of national sovereignty, the UN is behaving more and more like a global
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The Bedfordshire Fire Service has posted the following on their website to inform people about electric vehicle fires in England’s green and pleasant land. (Apologies to to William Blake.) Causes of an EV Fire Electric vehicles are powered most commonly by a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. The first lithium-
How long before “lockdowns because of COVID” become “lockdowns because of climate”? Sound like a crazy conspiracy theory? Sure, it does. But then, just a couple of years ago, so did lockdowns and vaccine passports. If there’s one thing recent history should have taught us, it’s to never
David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. The “climate emergency” appears to have died, far out on the scientific frontier. Word of this death has yet to reach the mainstream. Professors William van Wijngaarden (Canada) and
Peter J. Morgan B.E. (Mech.), Dip Teaching Honorary Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Environomics (NZ) Trust OPEN LETTER to The Prime Minister, the Minister for Climate Change, Mr McCormack, Ms Freshwater, Prof. McKenzie, Prof. de la Rey, Prof. Guilford, Prof. Hayne, Prof. Thomas, Prof. Quigley and Mr John Morgan,
No doubt attracted by the irresistible scent of mountains of government money, renewable energy and climate activism are fields rife with charlatans, troughers, rent-seekers and frauds. From the billions the clueless Obama sunk into boondoggles like Solyndra, to the obvious scam of burning trees and calling it “emissions free”
