Looking at the map below you will see that New Zealand and Australia are in a strong position food-wise as a few countries start to stockpile food in response to the pandemic. […] Some governments are moving to secure domestic food supplies during the conoravirus pandemic. Kazakhstan, one of the world’
It is time for one last look at the snow graph. It is a little over a month since The BFD last reported on the amount of snow in the northern hemisphere winter, so time to look again. Eyeballing that, it appears to have peaked at 3250 Gigatons, up some
What do you know? Pollution levels are down, the sky can be seen over China and the canals in Venice are cleaner than ever in living memory. And what brought this about? The coronavirus pandemic. A real emergency, where thousands have already lost their lives, forced us to change our
This is, without doubt, one of the crassest headlines I’ve ever seen. It is the lowest of the low and clearly shows what the true agenda of climate change fanatics is.
Here are two iron-clad rules you should always keep handy in your Bullshit Detection Kit: 1. If a headline claims “Study shows…” or “Science says…” assume that it doesn’t, until proven otherwise. 2. Whatever a “Fact-Checker” says, assume that they’re wrong or lying, until proven otherwise. The first
An interesting paper has been presented showing an apparent link between COVID-19 hotspots and cooler temperatures. The authors state that the virus has “established significant community spread in cities and regions only along a narrow east west distribution roughly along the 30-50 N” corridor at consistently similar weather patterns (5-1O°
Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com Carbon-capture-and-storage (CCS) tops the list of silly schemes ‘to reduce man-made global warming’. The idea is to capture carbon dioxide from power stations and cement plants, separate it, compress it, pump it long distances and force it underground, hoping it will never escape. Smart engineers with
David Theobald Pragmatism vs ideology. We are certainly ‘ruled’ here in New Zealand by the latter. Our Government is ideologically driven in virtually all it does. I have long thought that those at the levers of power start behind the eight ball on account of their lack of intellectual horsepower.
What is electric cars’ dirty little secret? Is it the batteries made with minerals dug up by children in dirty, dangerous, slave-like conditions? Is it the greenhouse gas 1,400 times more potent than CO2 which is used as a coolant by Chevy, Nissan and Tesla? It’s something – several
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Yesterday a press release landed in my inbox and I couldn’t stop laughing. The fact that it is a serious new NZ political party that has been created to fight this year’s election makes it even funnier. I challenge you all to read it in your head with
Ross Mckitrick wattsupwiththat.com Start learning the deep details of the science and economics instead of letting extremists dictate what you’re allowed to think or say Last year was the year the climate issue took a sharp turn towards extremism. Let’s hope 2020 is the year sanity makes
Oh dear, oh, dear. It seems all is not rosy in the green world of hybrid motoring. The plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) owners are not actually saving the planet. Woe is me! It seems that the claimed ‘economy’ figures touted by the manufacturers are not actually achievable out here
Perhaps I ought to post a View From Your Window photo, as it’s absolutely bucketing outside my window, right now. In fact, it’s right Flannerying down. The water tank’s overflowing, the pond’s near its brim and there are standing puddles everywhere. A “Flannery”, as columnist Tim
The Morrison government is walking a barbed-wire fence when it comes to climate policy. On the one hand, the government is smarting from sustained, opportunistic left-media attacks in the wake of this summer’s bushfire disaster. On the other, the Coalition’s voting base are unequivocally opposed to sacrificing economic
