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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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Pragmatism vs Ideology

Pragmatism vs Ideology

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.

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More DIRTY Secrets of Electric Cars

More DIRTY Secrets of Electric Cars

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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The McGillicuddy Serious Party Has a NEW Rival

The McGillicuddy Serious Party Has a NEW Rival

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

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Smugmobile Owners Conned

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

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Who You Gonna Believe? The BOM or Your Lyin’ Eyes?

Who You Gonna Believe? The BOM or Your Lyin’ Eyes?

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

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Morrison Govt Walks Climate Barbed-Wire Fence

Morrison Govt Walks Climate Barbed-Wire Fence

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

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