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 false
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 “Today, the Motor Industry Association has withdrawn support for Labour’s car standard, stating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 a fascinating glimpse
David Seymour ACT Leader Just last week Greens co-leader James Shaw said Parliament sitting was “putting lives at risk” by sitting in Level 4, and yet this week he’s prepared to fly to the COVID hot spot of Glasgow for climate talks. “James Shaw jumped on his moral high
James Shaw flees an unsafe Parliament where lives are being put at risk to Covid hotspot Glasgow for a climate change conference. pic.twitter.com/uEfYtMb5qX — David Seymour (@dbseymour) September 9, 2021
The Department of Conservation should pull the pin on a failed Mackenzie Basin project and return the unspent money to Treasury, National’s Conservation spokesperson, and MP for Waitaki, Jacqui Dean says. “The Tu Te Rakiwhanoa Drylands project was allocated $2.3 million dollars in the 2018 Budget. $1.4
The Bedfordshire Fire Service has posted the following on their website to inform people about electric vehicle fires in England’s green and pleasant land. (Apologies to to William Blake.) Causes of an EV Fire Electric vehicles are powered most commonly by a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. The first lithium-ion battery
Kathy Ann Townsend Dominique Potvin University of the Sunshine Coast Kathy Ann Townsend is a marine scientist with a particular interest in marine conservation and human impacts on the marine environment. Dominique teaches and coordinates Animal Ecology and Envioronmental Science courses at USC’s Moreton Bay campus. Environmental scientists see
No doubt attracted by the irresistible scent of mountains of government money, renewable energy and climate activism are fields rife with charlatans, troughers, rent-seekers and frauds. From the billions the clueless Obama sunk into boondoggles like Solyndra, to the obvious scam of burning trees and calling it “emissions free”. Most
Joshua Powell UCL Joshua Powell is a conservation biologist, with research interests in human-wildlife conflict, conservation strategy and conservation geopolitics. His PhD focuses on developing a conservation evidence-base for the critically endangered tooth-billed pigeon (Didunculus strigirostris). The return of wolves to Yellowstone National Park in 1995 popularised the idea of
“Greenwashing” is the term coined by environmentalist Jay Westerveld, to describe when a company markets itself as doing more for the environment than it actually is. A prime example of greenwashing would be a mining billionaire, who made a fortune by selling ore that is processed into steel by the
David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. It was not easy, but the new IPCC Summary for Policymakers manages to outdo itself in nuttiness. They have rebirthed some really bad old stuff and combined it with
