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Brace Yourselves for the Deluge

Brace Yourselves for the Deluge

Disappointed at being summarily tossed off the front pages by a real crisis that is actually killing people, the purveyors of the fake crisis that is never going to kill anyone have sent out a missive to over 400 media outlets telling them to get with the program and get

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Lockdown is Working: Sea Ice Highest Since 1988

Lockdown is Working: Sea Ice Highest Since 1988

I guess it is only a matter of time before the Climate Alarmists claim the victory in the climate crisis being averted due to everyone staying at home.  The fact that many rational people believe that the sun, not CO2, has a major effect on our climate and that the

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Oh, Noes! The Climate Models May Have an Error

Oh, Noes! The Climate Models May Have an Error

Let’s suppose that CO2 actually does control the average global temperature. It would thus be critical that the whole carbon cycle was extremely well understood in order for climate models to be accurate in their prediction of how mankind’s puny CO2 outputs are going to affect the future

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It’s In The Bag

It’s In The Bag

It is very interesting to watch the ‘single-use’ plastic bag becoming a warrior in the war on COVID-19.  Here among the sensible folk at The BFD it has always been a given that reusable shopping bags were a health hazard.  Never more so than now. New York San Francisco Massachusetts

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Punched a Hole in that Theory

Punched a Hole in that Theory

We were told that refrigerant gases and CFCs and spray cans and stuff were all terribly bad because they caused a huge hole in the ozone layer above the  Antarctic. So all the non-patented gases were banned and we all had to change to newly invented and patented (more expensive)

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Virus War Successful, but the Patient Died

Virus War Successful, but the Patient Died

Viv Forbes Viv Forbes has studied financial analysis, business economics and politics, and he is one of the oldies more vulnerable to Wuhan. Viv Forbes BScApp, FAusImm, FSIA In their frantic attempts to delay the spread of the Wuhan virus, governments are sowing the seeds of economic depression and currency

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Good News: New Zealand & Australia are Net food exporters

Good News: New Zealand & Australia are Net food exporters

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’

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Time For Some Good News?

Time For Some Good News?

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

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A Real Emergency, Not a Fake One, Forces Change

A Real Emergency, Not a Fake One, Forces Change

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

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Don’t Believe the Billion-Dollar Liars

Don’t Believe the Billion-Dollar Liars

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

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Has New Zealand Got a Few Months to Prepare for COVID-19?

Has New Zealand Got a Few Months to Prepare for COVID-19?

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°

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The Carbon Capture Con

The Carbon Capture Con

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

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