As I recently wrote, Sri Lanka is facing economic collapse and even famine, solely as a consequence of its government’s decision to mandate organic farming across the country. Consider it a cautionary tale and get ready to tighten your belts: the same may yet happen here. The world is
Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc. www.sportingshooters.nz By proposing regulations that make it harder for shooting clubs and ranges to operate, along with imposing restrictions on how novices can enter the sport, police are attacking New Zealand conservation ideals and heritage. It has been estimated that recreational
Much of the Coalition’s campaign effort in the 2022 election has been diverted to fighting off, not just Labor and the Greens, but the “teal independents”. These are a handful of very rich, almost entirely female, climate botherers in what are normally deep-blue conservative seats. They are threatening to
Elizabeth Elliot Noe Lincoln University, New Zealand Andrew D. Barnes Bruce Clarkson University of Waikato John Innes Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research Elizabeth Elliot Noe’s research area is biodiversity conservation in human-dominated landscapes, with an interest in the management and governance of social-ecological systems. Andrew D. Barnes is a community
John Maunder The following is an update on the subject from pages 173 to 184 of my book. The chart below shows that since 1979, when reliable satellite observations became available, there has been an overall warming trend in the average tropospheric temperatures, apart from, at times, milder temperatures since
The next 10 days may see a historic shift in climate policy in Aotearoa. […] It comes as data shows there is half as much time as previously thought to mitigate or retreat from sea level rise in some parts of the country. […] Minister James Shaw talked up the government’s
As I recently wrote, the fad for banning single-use plastic shopping bags is yet another green scheme gone tits-up. In fact, the ban led to an increase in plastic bags going into landfill. Good one, greens! As if dumping more, and heavier-grade, plastic into the environment wasn’t enough of
Tom Harris cfact.org Tom Harris is executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition Modern environmentalism has been taken over by an extremist cult that threatens to destroy the movement. This cult preys especially on young and impressionable people who lack the life experience to recognise when their good
Visiting Wonderland 1967 A “time of famines” is predicted, and by 1975 the world will not have enough food to feed its growing population. 1969 By the year 1989 everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue smoke due to population growth and contamination of the planet. 1970 We are
Ronald Stein cfact.org Ron Stein is an engineer who, drawing upon 25 years of project management and business development experience, launched PTS Advance in 1995. He is an author, engineer, and energy expert who writes frequently on issues of energy and economics. The economic and technological advances over the
Robert Sparrow Mark Howard lens.monash.edu Robert Sparrow is a Professor of Philosophy, Monash Data Futures Institute Mark Howard is a Research Fellow, Philosophy, Monash Data Futures Institute, ARC Centre of Excellence in Electromaterial Science “The world is not data,” states a new Monash-led paper on the future of
Well, stap me vitals and colour me shocked! Virtue-signalling, heavy-handed watermelon brain-farts come with blowback even worse than the problem they’re supposed to fix. No! I mean, it’s not like it’s happened before, again and again. Like the Scottish island that eradicated rats that were damaging its
In an episode of their series Bullshit, magician-sceptics Penn and Teller make a confession of sorts: they show a photo of themselves at the first Earth Day in 1970. Back then, they say, they genuinely believed there was an environmental crisis that needed to be addressed. But now? As Penn
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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
Mathew Otieno mercatornet.com Mathew Otieno writes from Kisumu, Kenya. The Batwa are a group of pygmy people who have lived in central Africa for millennia. Their homeland spreads across what is now Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Shorter in stature than other Africans, they
