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The Costs of Germany’s Green Energy

Mackenzie Fries Diana Furchtgott-Roth Mackenzie Fries is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation . http://www.heritage.org/   Diana Furchtgott-Roth is the director of the Center for Energy, Climate and Environment and the Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow at The Heritage Foundation . http://www.heritage.org/

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Damn the Whales, Full Speed Ahead

Damn the Whales, Full Speed Ahead

David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. For origins see stemed.info/engineer_tackles_confusion.html For over 100 prior articles for CFACT see cfact.org/author/david-wojick-ph-d/ Available for confidential research and consulting. “Damn the

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Climate Change: Both Sides of the Story…

Climate Change: Both Sides of the Story…

John Maunder A panel discussion on “Climate Change: Both Sides of the Story” was held at a Rotary Conference in Cambridge, New Zealand on June 28 2008. I was President of the Rotary Club of Otumoetai for 2007-08 at this time, and the Rotary District Governor John Tarbutt asked me

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Wishful Thinking Is Not Science

Wishful Thinking Is Not Science

Another day, another dodgy study, over-hyped by a sensationalist and scientifically illiterate legacy media. I hate to break it to you, despite what the headlines have been gushing, but thylacines (the “Tasmanian Tiger”) probably did not survive “into the 1980s and beyond”. Even I’d like to believe otherwise, but

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Are Solar Panels Any Better than Turbines?

Are Solar Panels Any Better than Turbines?

Do “renewables” make anything better? Almost everything the Climate Cult claims about renewables is nonsense. They’re not “emissions free”, they’re certainly not cheaper and they certainly aren’t saving the environment. Wind turbines are not just visually polluting, they’re particularly destructive of wildlife. Vast footprints of natural

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Bottles Could Be Made from Potato Starch

Adam Houser cfact.org Adam Houser coordinates student leaders as national director of CFACT’s collegians program and writes on issues of climate and energy. In an intriguing development, a new biodegradable bottle has been invented that disintegrates once torn up and placed under water. The product, called “GoneShells”, is

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A Lifetime of Being Wrong

A Lifetime of Being Wrong

In a truly rational world, Paul Ehrlich would be a punch-line, if remembered at all. Ehrlich’s entire career has been a masterclass in how to be wrong, consistently and about everything. Yet, far from a figure of universal mockery, Ehrlich remains a guru to the green-left. How is this

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Wealthy Countries Take Advantage of Developing Countries

Ronald Stein cfact.org Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book “Clean Energy Exploitations.” The reality is that all the mineral products and metals needed to make wind turbines, solar panels, and EV batteries are mined

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AI-Powered Cameras Are Helping to Catch Poachers

Adam Houser cfact.org Adam Houser coordinates student leaders as National Director of CFACT’s collegians’ program and writes on issues of climate and energy. For conservationists in Africa, poaching is problem number one. And while improvements have been made over the years in monitoring poaching activities on protected land,

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Net Zero Grid Storage Will Be Impossible

David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. For origins see stemed.info/engineer_tackles_confusion. For over 100 prior articles for CFACT see cfact.org Available for confidential research and consulting. I have a new study

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Understanding the Informal E-waste Recycling Sector in Malaysia

Understanding the Informal E-waste Recycling Sector in Malaysia

Saman Ilankoon Senior lecturer, School of Engineering, Malaysia lens.monash.edu Dr Ilankoon teaches both fluid mechanics and separation processes. He has extensive mining, minerals processing, chemical process engineering and industrial rock blasting teaching and research experiences at Imperial College London, Monash University Malaysia campus (Department of Chemical Engineering) and

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So… Cleaned up That Ocean, Yet?

So… Cleaned up That Ocean, Yet?

Hey, remember the Ocean Cleanup guy? A decade ago, a Dutch teenager promised to “rid the world’s oceans of plastic”. Naturally, in a culture besotted with the idea that children are the saviours of the planet, Boyan Slat swept the world of social media. TEDx talks, millions of Facebook

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Oh No, It’s Everything Else But…

Oh No, It’s Everything Else But…

David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, PhD is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. For origins see http://www.stemed.info/engineer_tackles_confusion.html For over 100 prior articles for CFACT see http://www.cfact.org/author/david-wojick-ph-d/ Available for confidential research and

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How Extinct Elephant Birds Lived

How Extinct Elephant Birds Lived

Alicia Grealy Research Projects Officer CSIRO Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds – the largest birds ever to have lived – have captured public interest for hundreds of years. Little is known about them due to large gaps in the skeletal fossil record. A new study published today in Nature Communications used ancient

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The Difficult Choices NZ’s Orchardists Now Face

The Difficult Choices NZ’s Orchardists Now Face

Anita Wreford Professor Applied Economics Lincoln University, New Zealand Hawke’s Bay, one of New Zealand’s most productive regions and the hub of the fruit-growing sector, is among the areas worst hit by Cyclone Gabrielle and ongoing rain. Horticulture underpins the local economy, with apple earnings alone contributing around

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They Should Have Known It Was Coming

They Should Have Known It Was Coming

To the dumb hammers of the Climate Cult, everything is a nail. It’s hot? Climate change! It’s cold? Climate change! A two-headed goat is born on a farm in Waiarapa? You better believe that’s climate change! Like mediaeval flagellants beating themselves into a frenzy over their belief

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