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Climate Change Curiosities

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In December a news report from Auckland claimed the city was experiencing a massive increase in insects, this attributed to the record 2022 rainfall. That may be so but it’s certainly not the case in Wellington. As elsewhere the capital also notched up a

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The Weather on Groundhog Day

The Weather on Groundhog Day

John Maunder Groundhog Day, February 2, is a popular tradition in the United States. It is also a legend that traverses many centuries, its origins clouded in the mists of time with ethnic cultures and animals awakening on specific dates. (parts of the following story are from my book “Fifteen

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There Is No Sixth Extinction

There Is No Sixth Extinction

You logically shouldn’t judge an argument by who made it… but there are some people who are so consistently wrong that, whatever they say, the opposite is almost certain to be true. So there’s no surer proof that hysteria over the so-called “Sixth Mass Extinction” is as baseless

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Deal Struck with Child Labor Countries for EV Minerals

Antonio Cambria cfact.org The Biden administration signed a deal with countries rife with child labor nearly a week before blocking a major Minnesota mining project as part of its “green” push. On Thursday, the Biden administration announced it would prohibit mining in more than 200,000 acres of land

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The True Cost of EVs

The True Cost of EVs

The Daily Mail reports on the hypocrisy of EV makers and those that drive them. For years, big tech companies like Apple and Tesla have assured the customers of their glossy stores and showrooms that all their goods are ethically sourced and sold. But a new series of images taken

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Climate Change and Red Herrings

Climate Change and Red Herrings

Collister Johnson cfact.org Johnson has spent the last four decades working in the public and private sectors in Virginia, primarily in the fields of project finance and maritime transportation. He began his career in public service as Chairman of the Board of the Virginia Port Authority. He was appointed

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Can We Live without Oil?

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 few wealthy countries pursuing the generation of electricity from wind turbines and solar panels while simultaneously moving to rid the world

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Why the Storm Caused So Many Landslides in Auckland

Why the Storm Caused So Many Landslides in Auckland

Martin Brook Associate Professor of Applied Geology University of Auckland The January 27 storm that hit Auckland broke all previous rainfall records and has caused widespread damage, mostly from flooding and landslides. But while climate change helps explain the intensity of the rainfall, the way land has been used and

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When Wind Farms Kill Whales

When Wind Farms Kill Whales

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. The Bureau

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A ‘Blocking High’ Helped Auckland’s Weather Bomb

A ‘Blocking High’ Helped Auckland’s Weather Bomb

John Maunder The “weather bomb” which brought widespread destruction and the loss of lives and record rainfalls in the Auckland area of New Zealand during the January 27 -31, 2023 period was in part (together with a third La Nina event in three years, and much warmer sea temperatures), the

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The Tongan Eruption Was a Wake-up Call

The Tongan Eruption Was a Wake-up Call

Shane Cronin Professor of Earth Sciences University of Auckland The Kingdom of Tonga exploded into global news on January 15 last year with one of the most spectacular and violent volcanic eruptions ever seen. Remarkably, it was caused by a volcano that lies under hundreds of metres of seawater. The

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Whales Lose Out to Wind Farms

Whales Lose Out to Wind Farms

As I wrote recently, the Green-Left’s environmental fanaticism is decidedly situational. The same army of grotty unemployables and interfering old biddies who’ll chain themselves to a development if it allegedly threatens a single, obscure breed of finch, are conspicuously absent when wind turbines are mincing dozens of endangered

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It’s a Win for the Environment!

It’s a Win for the Environment!

They’re a strange mob, the Greens. They’ll chain themselves to the gate six-deep to a mining site if word gets out that a wallaby fell in a tailings dam and drowned. But the same gaggle of smelly unemployables and pious nosey-nannas are nowhere to be seen while wind-farms

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Building the Cathedrals of Europe… the Climate Factor

Building the Cathedrals of Europe… the Climate Factor

John Maunder When I was in Canada about 30 years ago, I listened to a lecture about Medieval Warming, the building of the Gothic Cathedrals and the freemasons. It appears that there was no theological reason why the cathedrals were built at that time but there is an interesting link

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A New Species of New Zealand Gecko Hidden in Plain Sight

A New Species of New Zealand Gecko Hidden in Plain Sight

Lachie Scarsbrook, DPhil Student University of Oxford Kerry Walton, Researcher Nic Rawlence, Senior Lecturer in Ancient DNA University of Otago New Zealand is home to an incredible diversity of lizards  – more than 120 species are identified, and counting. Elusive species are being (re)discovered in cracks and crevices in remote

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Davos ‘Masterclass in Hypocrisy’, 1,000+ Private Flights

Wyatt Reed dailytelegraph.co.nz Wyatt Reed is a journalist covering Latin America and racial and environmental justice movements in the US. He reported on the 2019 coup d’etat in Bolivia from the ground and has covered stories throughout the region from Venezuela, Nicaragua, Colombia, Ecuador and more. The

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