John Maunder Over 50 years ago, in April 1968, when I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography in the University of Victoria in Canada, I remember very well when on a Wednesday morning the representative from the British publishers Methuen and Co came to see me in
Contrary to mythology, the quintessential Australian isn’t a rugged Outback type laconically shrugging off adversity with a “She’ll be right”. It’s an outraged suburbanite, shrieking that “The gummint should do somethin’!” Australia has long been one of the most urbanised countries in the world. Even by the
John Maunder Each month Professor Ole Humlum of The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), in Norway publishes on his very comprehensive website a large number of updated charts and related analyses of data from international sources. His latest website can be found at: www.climate4you Record of recent global air
John Maunder Since instrumental records became available in the 1850’s, climatic values show a range from the highest temperature of 42.4 degrees C recorded in Rangiora on February 7, 1973, to the lowest temperature of-25.6 degrees C in Eweburn, Ranfurly on 17 July 1903. In terms of
Ralph Sims Massey University Ralph Sims began his career in Sustainable Energy at Massey University, New Zealand in 1971 making and testing biodiesel from animal fats. After 4 years based at the IEA (International Energy Agency) in Paris (2006-2009) as a senior analyst working on renewable energy and climate change
Ever since you got a hybrid car you’ve gotten so smug that you love the smell of your own farts! South Park There may be a more smug class of people than EV drivers, but only on two wheels. As South Park satirised them, EV drivers are bourgeois hippies
In just three weeks, the Albanese government has been thoroughly mugged by political reality. The party who boasted of a vague “plan” to “fix it” are body-slammed with simultaneous energy and cost-of-living crises, including the biggest interest rate hike in 22 years — and suddenly, the “plan” is nowhere to be
John Maunder The ‘Maunder Minimum’ is the name given to the period from 1645 to 1715 when the number of sunspots – ‘storms’ on the sun – became almost zero. The period is named after the solar astronomer Edward Walter Maunder (1851-1928), who was working at The Royal Observatory at Greenwich when
Should we be surprised at anything that comes out of Democrat-run America, any more? Pizzas are a vegetable, women have penises… and bees are fish. Yes, you read that right: bees are now legally considered fish in California. Where else, but California? The head-scratching decision by the California Court of
Well, that was fast. Just two weeks in office and the wheels are already falling off the Albanese government. Suddenly, Albo is finding out government involves a lot harder work than just sniping at everything the other guy does, and when you keep telling people you have a plan to
David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. Spring and summer are the time of growth, with blossoms everywhere we look. Leaves and fruit on the trees, grass in the yard and pastures, vegetables in the garden
Whenever I’ve tried to debate climate cultists on facts, rather than slogans, it’s astonishing how little they really know. Which is probably no accident. Because, if they stopped and did even a rudimentary beer-mat calculus, their treasured beliefs fall apart. Far easier to just keep shouting, really. One
John Maunder For further information on a range of weather and climate matters see my recent book Fifteen shades of climate… the fall of the weather dice and the butterfly effect. Available from Amazon. The following is an update on the subject from pages 171 to 173 and 180 to
Recently, the Greater Wellington Regional Council asked the Environment Court for enforcement to protect wetlands in Whiteman’s Valley. But the court found the wetlands didn’t exist. Now the council has to foot the defence bill of $482,000-plus. During the two-week trial, the council filed nearly 3,000
Kelvin Kemm cfact.org Dr Kelvin Kemm is a nuclear physicist and CEO of Nuclear Africa (Pty) Ltd, a project management company based in Pretoria, South Africa. He is the recipient of the prestigious Lifetime Achievers Award of the National Science and Technology Forum of South Africa. He does international
