When even supposedly sober conservatives like Scott Morrison, not to mention the suits at the Business Council of Australia, are jumping on the “net zero” bandwagon, you know we’re well and truly stuffed. “Net zero” is a chimaera which doesn’t stand up to basic scrutiny — not to mention
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Glasgow Climate Change Conference is about to begin as 30,000 spongers descend on the city. My Glasgow office tells me Glaswegians are not well pleased at the inconvenience to them on a number of counts. A daughter living in my Glasgow home tells
Today in things so good you have to be forced to buy them: Electric cars. Remember when governments banned horses and carts and forced everyone to buy those new-fangled Model T Fords, instead? No? So, where are the horses and carts, now? Gone, because the internal combustion engines were
It’s said that reliable fusion power is always just ten years away. It’s certainly been just around the corner ever since I was a spotty little Herbert starting high school. It’s the same story with the end of the world: for as long as I can remember,
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
It’s almost like the universe is trying to send them a message: as thousands of the global elite and climate troughers hop on their private jets and limos for yet another gabfest, in Glasgow, Britain is set to enter its worst Winter of Discontent since the mid-70s. Back
Have you ever noticed that the climate strike kiddies are so overwhelmingly middle-class? Watch any school’s climate protest and note the neat blazers and brand-new iPhones. Listen, if you can without surrendering to the urge to shove knitting needles in your ears, to Poppy, Hyacinth and Viola
In Isaac Asimov’s Foundation (of which, if the trailers are anything to go by, the Apple TV adaptation is going to be awful), reverting to coal and oil use instead of nuclear is seen as a sure sign of the former Galactic Empire’s slide into barbarism. Similarly, green
John Maunder Rainfalls for the month of September have been recorded in Tauranga since 1898, except for 1904, 1907, 1908, and 1909. The graph below shows the range of rainfalls from an extreme high of 274 mm in 1973 to a low of only 16 mm in 1965. The second
Anyone remember South Australia’s Great Big Green Battery? The one they paid Elon Musk a cool $90 million to build? Spoiler alert: It doesn’t work. South Australia’s big Tesla battery is being sued for allegedly failing to live up to its promises to help rescue the power
Every cloud has a silver lining, but in the case of Australia’s periodic massive bushfires, the black clouds of smoke have a very green lining. New research shows that Australia’s catastrophic bushfires last summer led to an explosion of life in the Southern Ocean. The event has been
If we’re to believe the loonies dressing up in silly costumes and gluing themselves to roads, “capitalism is the problem”. Capitalism, the eco-nuts want us to believe, is the mortal enemy of Mother Gaia. In fact, the opposite is more often true. But there are two reasons this
If we’re to believe the Greens and Te Paati Maori, the Maori were and are environmental saints, living in perfect harmony with their environment. It’s only since the wicked Pakeha showed up that all the environmental destruction and species extinction started. Which is even more ludicrous than fanciful
The Motor Industry Association’s withdrawal of support for Labour’s Clean Vehicle Bill is yet more reason for Transport Minister Michael Wood to ditch his car tax plan, National’s Transport spokesperson David Bennett says. “Today, the Motor Industry Association has withdrawn support for Labour’s car standard, stating
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There was a time when Cracked.com was pretty good reading. Sure, it was mostly Buzzfeed-style list-based articles (a formula they’ve stuck with), but some of them were pretty damn interesting. For instance, the article relating what it’s like to experience an accidental drug-psychosis is
