New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and other Democrat leaders nationwide announce that students can skip classes Friday (9/20/201) to join the global climate strike aimed at protesting man-made climate breakdown. Is this just a craven political move, at the expense of taxpayers and of student learning, or
Tim Flannery is a Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne, and a climate change true believer. According to him “climate changer deniers” are a threat to our children. In this age of rapidly melting glaciers, terrifying megafires and ever more puissant hurricanes, of acidifying and
As the media have collaborated to bombard the populace with environmental and climate doom propaganda, it is only fair and reasonable to hold their feet to the fire (as it were) and examine past media promoted predictions that have failed to materialise. From the Salt Lake Tribune, November 17, 1967
The oh-so-woke NBC News is proving to us all that the Climate Crisis is a religious deal by running a ‘Climate Confessions’ page. Fortunately, there are those “confessing” that it is all baloney:
The Institute of Public Affairs launch of Ian Plimer’s new book from Connor Court Publishing, ‘Not For Greens’, in Melbourne on Tuesday 22 July 2014.
Next week’s climate beano at the UN is shaping up to be a bit of a fizzer. Rare as it is for the hangers-on and blood-suckers of Big Climate to turn down some free wine and cheese and business class flights, as we’ve already reported on The BFD,
Victorian premier, socialist left faction leader Daniel Andrews, seems determined to turn that state into Australia’s very own little Venezuela. Whether it’s promulgating the creepy Marxist nonsense of “Safe Schools” (the template for New Zealand’s “Mates and Dates”), greedily trousering billions from the Chinese communist regime, or
The BFD has canvased the EV battery disposal problem here: https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/09/troy-runs-the-jag-off-the-road/ Dr Woods wants us to build 4.5 windfarms per year. Very fortunately, this is another CoL target that is being comprehensively missed as no one wants to see New Zealand end up
Groucho Marx was never more devastatingly accurate than when he observed that “politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies”. Groucho would have had a field day mocking the perilous nonsense of green politics, where the remedies are often
If you were to believe the media and green alarmists (which are the same thing, really), you would be convinced that not only is an existential climate apocalypse looming, but that there is a worldwide mass movement demanding urgent and drastic action. Quite simply, neither is the least bit true.
Press Release: New Conservative Mainstream media, as the purveyors of truth and source of balanced information, took another backward step yesterday with the announcement by Stuff that most New Zealand organisations had joined 170 media outlets from around the world in the “Covering Climate Now” project. “The last bastion for
There is another climate jolly in the wings. All the movers and shakers need to urgently fly to New York for a talkfest at the UN Climate Action Summit. Also, there are the climate activists and school children who are going to bunk off school for a climate strike later
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With fires raging in the Amazon, hurricanes ripping across the Atlantic, and typhoons flooding Japan, our planet and our climate are sending us a message: Yes and that message is that it is business as usual. Fires were happening every year in the Amazon long before the Climate Emergency became
In the latest incarnation of mankind’s fascination with racing things, whether it be Jaffas down Baldwin Street in Dunedin or massive trucks around circuits, the woke climate warriors have got into the act. Extreme E – Formula E’s sister series – aims to highlight climate change in five remote locations
