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Pausing Climate Commission’s Work More Urgent

Pausing Climate Commission’s Work More Urgent

ACT Party ACT Climate Change spokesperson Simon Court. “One of New Zealand’s most eminent economists has busted open the sketchy basis for many of the Climate Commission’s draft recommendations to the Government, concluding they regularly misrepresented evidence to support their positions,” says ACT Climate Change spokesperson Simon Court.

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Big Surprise: Another Wasteful Climate Scam

Big Surprise: Another Wasteful Climate Scam

Is there anything the Krazy Klimate Kult don’t make worse? Wind turbines – or “eco-crucifixes” as James Delingpole so eloquently calls them – drive up energy prices, destabilise power grids and mince wildlife by the millions. Climate politics enriches the already mega-wealthy at the expense of ordinary taxpayers and empowers the

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Give Up Your Weed for the Climate’s Sake

Give Up Your Weed for the Climate’s Sake

The finger-wagging miserablists of the Krazy Klimate Kult love to lecture us about the wickedness of such planet-killing pastimes as driving to work or taking a plane ride, even playing video games. Industry regularly comes under fire, too, for its “carbon footprint”. But they’re notably selective in what they

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No Joined-up Thinking in Government

No Joined-up Thinking in Government

Exhibit One, April 2018: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has banned future offshore oil and gas exploration in New Zealand. “We’re protecting industry and protecting future generations from climate change,” said Ardern. “This is a responsible step, which provides certainty for businesses and communities that rely on fossil fuels.” Exhibit

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The Left Declares War on Gas

David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. The so-called CLEAN Future Act just introduced by the Democrat leaders of the house energy Committee calls for the elimination of gas-fired electric power generation, some immediately, some by

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Open Letter to the Leader of the Opposition

Open Letter to the Leader of the Opposition

John Rofe Dear Leader of The Opposition, I favour the use of technology and a re-emphasis on renewable energy as the best means to a sustainable future for New Zealand’s children and grandchildren. I deplore the conspiracies of those who are party to the UN IPCC climate fraud, together

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In Praise of CO2

An interesting post appeared on the interwebs a few days ago.  In it Zoe Phin reported on some analyses she had done on publicly available NASA data; the Vegetation Index, a measure of how green the earth is. Using the wizardry of extracting, manipulating and graphing the source data from

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When Will the Snow Go?

When Will the Snow Go?

Whenever the Mayan and Sumerian calendars align on a harmonic prime, The BFD takes a look at how Dr Viner’s prediction in 2000 is working out. Snow is starting to disappear from our lives. Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled

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Great Reset: Nothing to See Here

Great Reset: Nothing to See Here

No matter how many tanties and hissy-fits Grant Robertson throws, it’s an objective fact that the Great Reset is not a “conspiracy theory”. A “conspiracy theory” is defined as a secret plot by usually powerful conspirators and a theory asserting that a secret of great importance is being kept

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Open Letter to the MSM and NZ Parliamentarians

Open Letter to the MSM and NZ Parliamentarians

John Rofe It seems that our PM and Minister for Climate Change are determined to keep repeating the lies spread by the UN IPCC and their socialist cronies, together with active support from NIWA and the Ministry for the Environment, that we humans have a detrimental effect on the earth’

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How the Legacy Media Lie about Coal

How the Legacy Media Lie about Coal

If you were to believe the mainstream media and the green-left… well, more fool you. But if you’re fool enough to do so, you’ll almost certainly believe in the imminent demise of coal. After all, renewables are cheap and plentiful and more than enough to power us into

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How Modern Farming Fed the World and Is Saving the Planet

How Modern Farming Fed the World and Is Saving the Planet

Environmental activists – especially climate activists – have a long track record of not just getting the problems completely wrong, but advocating the worst responses. The Paris Agreement is a typical example: not only does it explicitly assume that climate change is an immediate existential threat to humanity (it isn’t), but

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How to deal with militant vegan activists.

Making Meat Out of Thin Air

The Star Trek science fiction universe is a particular favourite of internet socialists. Partly that’s because of its ever-woker story-lines (Star Trek: Discovery, I’m looking at you), but mostly because of its “no money and all our stuff for free” utopia. But, tellingly, to realise such a utopia,

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Plant Based Meat Is the Real “Frankenfood”

Plant Based Meat Is the Real “Frankenfood”

I’ve recently written about a startup tech company that aims to manufacture artificial meat by fermenting CO2. While the vegans can keep their fake meat, at least the technology seems like a promising addition to the suite of engineering solutions to human CO2 emissions. Certainly, if you believe the

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Texans Hit with Massive Bills after Storms and Blackouts

Texans Hit with Massive Bills after Storms and Blackouts

In case you had any doubts about the supposedly glorious utopian future of the cretinous “Green New Dealers”, Texas and South Australia have given us a couple of free previews. The future of the climate emergency-besotted left is a grim and unappealing one: a world where energy is scarce, unreliable

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Left Spins As Texas Turbines Freeze

Craig Rucker papundits.wordpress.com Craig Rucker is the current President of, and the co-founder of the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT). Green energy policies have failed Texas. Power outages, in large part caused by frozen wind turbines and snow covered solar panels, are still keeping nearly 500,000

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