Poor old Simon Wilson. He finished up 2020 telling us why he was afraid and he’s started in 2021 by still being afraid. The things he’s afraid of haven’t changed much; he’s still banging on about climate change. Well, there’s good news on that front
For a government which has been running around, Chicken Little-style, clucking about a supposed “climate emergency”, the Ardern government seems strangely reluctant to do its bit to stop the sky falling in. Besides exempting agriculture – one of New Zealand’s biggest sources of those scary, scary greenhouse emissions – from emissions
Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Spare a thought for climate scientists: no longer the go-to experts for scary headlines. The epidemiologists have taken over. 2020 started well. The usual apocalyptic summer headlines. Then bang: they were gone. For thirty years climate scientists have led public debate and focused political minds. No
Peter Murphy papundits.wordpress.com Peter Murphy is Senior Fellow at CFACT. He has researched and advocated for a variety of policy issues, including education reform and fiscal policy, both in the non-profit sector and in government in the administration of former New York Governor George Pataki. He previously wrote
Dr. John Happs PA Pundits – International Dr. John Happs M.Sc.1st Class; D.Phil. John has an academic background in the geosciences with special interests in climate, and paleoclimate. He has been a science educator at several universities in Australia and overseas and was President of the Western Australian
Viv Forbes Washpool Qld, Australia The Green Virus is on a rising curve in the Anglo-Sphere. Boris, Biden, Kerry, Trudeau, Arden and Australia’s Morrison are all competing to be the first to destroy all industries reliant on coal, cattle, petrol and diesel. Hydrogen, solar, wind, pumped hydro, bio-fuels, carbon
Peter J. Morgan Honorary Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Environomics (NZ) Trust Politicised climate scientists say their models and their case for rapid, dangerous, manmade global warming are based on “sound science”. They are not. In a new learned paper the Argonauts – ten eminent experts – demonstrate irrefutably that climate scientists
Craig Rucker www.cfact.org One of our favorite headlines from the clever parody site The Onion reads, “China Vows To Begin Aggressively Falsifying Air Pollution Numbers.” Once again parody has a way of becoming reality. Last Saturday the UN held an online “Climate Ambition Summit,” and China used the
While Australia and New Zealand slavishly follow the EU’s obsessive focus on “renewables” despite the mathematically incontrovertible fact that they just cannot feasibly replace fossil fuels, some in the US are recalling America’s “can do” spirit – and making next-generation nuclear happen. Five minutes’ scribbling on the back of
“Trust the science!” is the great conceit of the contemporary left. But – leaving aside that the left are awfully picky about science when it comes to, say, gender ideology – how can we “trust the science” when Australia’s peak science body is so obviously trying to baffle us with bullshit?
John Rofe This week we had the astonishing spectacle of the Speaker, Trevor Mallard, finally coming clean about how much the mistaken use of the term “rape” has cost the NZ taxpayer, after a week or so of prevarication. He is now being taken apart by a cowardly pack of
