COP25 – Madrid. Global Carbon Tax Law Has Serious Consequences for Canada and Democracy COP25 – Madrid. After rioting and civil unrest in Chile, the intended location of COP-25, Madrid, Spain agreed to take on the challenge of hosting some 20,000 climate change bureaucrats for the 25th meeting of the
The “Mickey Mouse petition” agitating for “climate action” has provoked plenty of mirth but it is far more significant than just another own goal from the sort of climate alarmists who regularly get stuck in unexpected sea ice. Even before I learned of the Mickey Mouses and Albus Dumbledores of
It’s striking just how thoroughly bourgeois is the climate change phenomenon, at every level from the Eton old boys behind Extinction Rebellion to the Greens-voting wealthy inner suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney. Climate change is the ultimate first-world problem, the almost exclusive preserve of the anxious middle-
Dr Peter Ridd talks with the Director of Policy at the Institute of Public Affairs, Gideon Rozner about his fight for freedom of speech on climate change. In May 2018, after an academic career of more than 30 years, Peter had his employment terminated as a professor of physics at
Climate alarmists spread myths and declare impending doom. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz
Information This is a letter from John Rofe, a self-declared “Concerned Citizen” to Professor Gerrard, the NZ Prime Minister’s Science Advisor. As it is quite long we have ‘serialized’ it over a few days. * Part one here. * Part two here. * Part three here. * Part four here. * Part five
As I wrote recently for Insight, there is an alarming sub-strata of the “deep-green” eco-activist movement which eagerly anticipates a mass genocide of the human species to “save the planet”. This is not just a fringe element either: David Attenborough is a patron of the Population Matters
Information This is a letter from John Rofe, a self-declared “Concerned Citizen” to Professor Gerrard, the NZ Prime Minister’s Science Advisor. As it is quite long we have ‘serialised’ it over a few days. * Part one here. * Part two here. * Part three here. * Part four here. I am
Information This is a letter from John Rofe, a self-declared “Concerned Citizen” to Professor Gerrard, the NZ Prime Minister’s Science Advisor. As it is quite long we have ‘serialised’ it over a few days. * Part one here. * Part two here. * Part three here. You needn’t concern yourself
Information This is a letter from John Rofe, a self-declared “Concerned Citizen” to Professor Gerrard, the NZ Prime Minister’s Science Advisor. As it is quite long we have ‘serialised’ it over a few days. * Part one here. * Part two here. This year even suppliers of seed will be
To adopt a quote from Homer Simpson, “Climate change: is there anything it can’t do?” So far, the dazzling list of things supposedly caused by climate change included everything from a decline in circumcisions, struggling brothels and even the Earth spinning faster. Now, we can add shitty service from
Information This is a letter from John Rofe, a self-declared “Concerned Citizen” to Professor Gerrard, the NZ Prime Minister’s Science Advisor. As it is quite long we have ‘serialized’ it over a few days. Part one here. New Zealand’s situation is pretty much an “outlier” on the
Information This is a letter from John Rofe, a self-declared “Concerned Citizen” to Professor Gerrard, the NZ Prime Minister’s Science Advisor. As it is quite long we have ‘serialised’ it over a few days. I guess you probably won’t read this, so I will copy this email
Of those 11,258 ‘scientists’ (including Mickey Mouse) who declared that the world was going to hell in a handcart due to a climate emergency, 195 were from New Zealand. What were their fields of climate science expertise that lead them to this conclusion? With a bit of jiggery-pokery,
I wrote a post on Saturday commenting on yet another school shooting in the USA and roxypiper commented: “Pinker tells us (and demonstrates in Better Angels of Our Nature) that the world is actually becoming less violent. The USA is however acknowledged as being an ‘outlier’ in the data.” Which
