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Renewable Energy Proves Too Expensive for California

Renewable Energy Proves Too Expensive for California

Don’t expect the Greens to have accurately costed their renewable energy scheme rolled out last month in preparation for election 2020. The idealistic just-turned-18s might love the green dream but in California, it’s a nightmare. “The Green Party wants an immediate ban on new industrial coal boilers, as

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A Useless Document From the Ministry for the Environment

A Useless Document From the Ministry for the Environment

Owen Jennings The Ministry for the Environment’s newly released risk assessment document is useless.  It relies on the increasingly discredited RCP8.5 scenario published in 2011 by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Despite stating: “In climate research and modelling, we should recognise that we are dealing

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Cascading Fallacies in Climate Risk Assessment

Cascading Fallacies in Climate Risk Assessment

David Wojick papundits.wordpress.com As a logician, I am always on the lookout for fallacies and there is no lack of them in climate change alarmist policies. New Zealand’s newly released climate risk assessment not only has multiple fallacies, they build on one another in a cascade. This

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Climate Cultists Attack Another Inconvenient Truth-Teller

Climate Cultists Attack Another Inconvenient Truth-Teller

Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a highly influential essay in the Philosophy of Science. As it has turned out, not always in a good way. While Kuhn introduced such now-common terms as paradigm into the scientific lexicon, he also argued that science should be defined more

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Highest Ever In Human History

Highest Ever In Human History

How many times has this phrase been rolled out in the Global Warming disaster era? Whether it is temperature or CO2 levels or sea levels or whatever, there is nothing like a ‘highest ever’ headline to grab a bit of clickbait. NOAA boldly states: Carbon dioxide levels today are higher

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Fake News Posing as “Fact-Checking”

Fake News Posing as “Fact-Checking”

“Just because a scientific paper is peer-reviewed does not mean it is correct. The peer-reviewed scientific literature is full of papers that contradict each other so they can’t all be right. Peer review does not stop bad science being published. Scientific theories live or die on evidence, not whether

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Twisting the Facts

Twisting the Facts

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Recently there was a Federal by-election in Australia in the Labour-held marginal seat of Eden-Monaro. In a tight race Labour scraped back, thanks to the Greens preferential votes going their way. But note this. The Australian Greens leader Adam Bandt remarked afterwards, “the result sent

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On Stuff’s Purchase for $1

On Stuff’s Purchase for $1

Terry Dunleavy Hon Secretary, New Zealand Climate Science Coalition I have just finished reading Five Things Judith Collins has said on Climate Change on Stuff, and my message for its new CEO Sinead Boucher is that if this is an example of journalistic standards of accuracy, enlightenment and fairness, then

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three brown deers

Cold Comfort

Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com Before sunrise yesterday, the grass temperature in Washpool, “Sunny Queensland” was minus 1.7 deg. There was no wind or sunshine. Wind turbines were becalmed and not even moonbeams energised our solar panels. In that still, frosty darkness, green energy failed again. Not a watt came

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EV Batteries UNacceptable

EV Batteries UNacceptable

Oh, dear! What are the greenie lefties going to do now?  Their most beloved of organisations, the UN has (finally) highlighted the child abuses and environmental devastation involved in the production of batteries for the greenies most beloved means of transport – the EV. The shift to electric mobility is in

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That’s the Climate Sorted, Then

That’s the Climate Sorted, Then

Seattle’s KeyArena is getting a new name, henceforth it will be the Climate Pledge Arena “This unprecedented partnership is the first of its kind in sports and entertainment and is a commitment to tackle the most pressing problem facing our planet, climate change,” the statement said. Jeff Bezos, the

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The Climate Change Article Memory-holed by Forbes

The Climate Change Article Memory-holed by Forbes

Forbes this week without explanation has memory-holed an article by award-winning climate activist Michael Shellenberger, in which he apologizes “for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years.” At The BFD we like to shine sunlight on content assigned to the memory hole by MSM publishers so have

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The Greens Burden the Overly Complicated and Unworkable RMA

The Greens Burden the Overly Complicated and Unworkable RMA

The RMA is a cumbersome and expensive piece of legislation that 30 years and 19 amendments, including the Greens’ latest contribution, have failed to make workable. It should be scrapped and rewritten.  A recent example of the inefficient process is Watercare’s application to take more water from the Waikato

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