Climate Change
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
The BFD Video: Climate News April 5, 2020
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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
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)
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
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’
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
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
A New Low in Climate Change Headlines
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.
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
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°
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
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.
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