Climate Change
What the Climate Commission Draft Report Got Wrong
Points to Note in Regard to Agricultural Livestock Emissions Ruminant Methane and Nitrous Oxide. The Climate Commission draft report is a missed opportunity to properly redress the numerous and significant mistakes that governments over many years have made about the impact of ruminant methane emissions. FARM recommends the Commission rewrites
Correcting the Record on Climate
Craig Rucker cfact.org Nary a day goes by without an outrageous claim about climate in the media. These over-the-top, outrageous assertions are not science. They are talking points spoon-fed by radical pressure groups to an all-too-compliant media. They are often made up on the spot. Just this week Marc
Cheating in Science Is Nothing New
Dr. John Happs PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com “Men only care for science so far as they get a living by it and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. (1749-1832) Religious fanatics have often predicted an apocalypse from a displeased
Open Letter to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
Dear Prime Minister On 1 January 2021 I emailed an Open Letter to you, which was also sent to the Minister for Climate Change and also to every member of the Climate Change Commission. The title of that Open Letter was “An Open Letter to the Prime Minister regarding the
The Great Climate Cash-In
A common argument from the Krazy Klimate Kultists is an appeal to authority which usually runs along the lines of But Multinational X is investing in renewables! Which raises the question: since when did the green-left make the evil corporations their heroes? The same goes for The US military is
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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