It’s a curious thing: the people most obsessed with climate change seem to have the most trouble grasping the concept of “change”. They seem to live with a peculiar delusion that the climate of the middle 1960s — just coincidentally, the heyday of the Boomer Establishment’s youth — is somehow
A paper published last year examined a raft of apocalyptic climate change predictions: all of which had consistently failed to eventuate. High among them is James Hansen’s notorious 1988 prediction — from his Congressional testimony that in many ways gave birth to the modern, trillion-dollar industry of climate alarmism, despite
Will Coggin cfact.org Will Coggin is the managing director of the Center for Consumer Freedom. The problem with New Year’s resolutions? Typically, the follow-through is too difficult. Let’s be blunt: If dieting or going to the gym three times a week was easy, we wouldn’t need
Dear Editor The Australian government’s high-handed treatment of Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic because of his refusal to have the Covid vaccination not only highlights the weakness of the case for the jab but also suggests that Djokovic’s state of health is not the real reason for threatening
John Maunder Temperatures have been recorded in the Tauranga area at several sites during the last 100 years, including the current Tauranga Airport site from June 1990. The average afternoon temperature in December 2021 was 24.5 degrees Celsius the highest since records began in 1913. The graph below shows
Jon Hersey fee.org Jon Hersey is managing editor of The Objective Standard, fellow and instructor at Objective Standard Institute, and Hazlitt fellow at Foundation for Economic Education. Fionn Fereira grew up on the majestic southern coast of Ireland, but by the time he was twelve, he was noticing a
The BFD has recently reported on the Rich Kids Funding Eco-Terrorism and on China’s useful idiots secretly pushing the CCP’s global domination agenda via the climate movement. But, as other recent revelations show, the tentacles of Beijing’s influence reach into every level of the environmental movement. Australia’
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has made his fortune entirely by literally shipping large chunks of Australia over to the world’s largest carbon emitter, to be turned into gigatonnes of carbon belched from steel refineries. But he totally cares about “saving the planet” from “catastrophic climate change”, donchaknow. It’s
As BFD readers may know, I’m not exactly an electric car evangelist. It’s not that there is anything intrinsically wrong with EVs as vehicles, I’m just not buying the “environmental” hype. There is little convincing evidence that EVs are in any way more “environmentally sound” than modern
John Maunder The following data sets and comments are from the climate4you.com website developed by Professor Ole Humlum who is a Danish Professor Emeritus of Physical Geography at the University of Oslo, and Adjunct Professor of Physical Geography at the University Centre in Svalbard. The website climate4you.com which
Barbara McKenzie Wellington SNA Committee stovouno.org Barbara McKenzie has a PhD in German Literature. ‘Nobody Owns Land’ (Former Deputy Mayor Jill Day, 2019) The Wellington City Council’s Draft District Plan presents the details of its Significant Natural Areas policy, including SNA designations on both private and public land.
John Maunder https://www.climate4you.com/Text/Climate4you One example of what is contained in the above website are the charts of Arctic and Antarctic surface air temperatures from January 2000 to September 2011. Each month Professor Ole Humlum of the The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), in Norway publishes
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains… the little streams of alcohol Come trickling down the rocks Harry McClintock. Well, it wasn’t quite Heywire Mac’s vision of hobo paradise, nor Shane MacGowan’s dream vision of Brendan Behan, but a hiker in Hawaii recently discovered a literal river of
