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Europe’s ‘Unprecedented Man-Made Floods’

Paul Driessen cfact.org Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for CFACT and author of Cracking Big Green and Eco-Imperialism: Green Power – Black Death. Deadly floods in Germany and Belgium have put climate change back in the news in time for the COP-26 climate gabfest in Glasgow. Not surprisingly, government

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Overseer Not Fit for Purpose

Dr Samuel Dennis grounded.nz You may have noticed the recent headlines regarding the Overseer model (used by regional councils to determine farmer compliance with environmental regulation) being severely criticised in a recent independent review. “Major tool for managing farm pollution gets a fail from reviewers”, “Report finds shortcomings in

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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder Some of the answers to the complexities of the climate system are given in my recently published book Fifteen shades of climate… the fall of the weather dice and the butterfly effect. The following are extracts are from pages 351-359. Continued from last week Coal to Biomass According

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Racist Smear Causes Members to Quit

Racist Smear Causes Members to Quit

Hobson’s Pledge Trust In a shock move on Friday, three of the 11-member West Coast Conservation Board have resigned saying they have been called racist for raising what they see as conflicts between the interests of conservation and the interests of Ngai Tahu. Neil Silverwood, Inger Perkins and Suzanne

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The Carbon Footprint Con

The Carbon Footprint Con

Dr. Jay Lehr cfact.org CFACT Senior Science Analyst Jay Lehr has authored more than 1,000 magazine and journal articles and 36 books. Jay’s new book A Hitchhikers Journey Through Climate Change written with Teri Ciccone is now available on Kindle and Amazon. Whoever came up with the

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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder Some of the answers to the complexities of the climate system are given in my recently published book Fifteen shades of climate… the fall of the weather dice and the butterfly effect. The following are extracts are from pages 351-359. Part 1. Part 2 will follow next week

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Conservation Minister to Operate outside Mandate

Conservation Minister to Operate outside Mandate

The Conservation Minster’s handling of a ministerial review into the governance of Fish and Game will see hunters and anglers side-lined from the organisation they pay for, National’s Conservation spokesperson Jacqui Dean says. “Fish and Game receive no Government money, yet the implementation steering group, led by former

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Environ-MENTAL

Environ-MENTAL

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Growing Concern over the Councils’ SNA Initiative

Growing Concern over the Councils’ SNA Initiative

Barbara McKenzie BA (Hons) Linguistics; PhD (German Lit.) stovouno.org Nationwide policies to incorporate private land into “Significant Natural Areas”, ostensibly deriving authority from the Resource Management Act, have been met with hostility from landowners. Most recently, the Far North District Council announced on 27 July that it has dropped

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The Great Barrier Reef Is Healthier Than Ever

Like Mark Twain, polar bears and the Arctic ice cap, the death of the Great Barrier Reef has been greatly exaggerated. The Reef has long been up there with polar bears as one of the great poster children of climate alarmism. The supposed threat to the Reef is one of

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The Sooty, 1000-lb Panda in the Room

The Sooty, 1000-lb Panda in the Room

One thing I’ve learned from trying to debate climate alarmists is that so much of what they know, just ain’t so. Rarely, outside of some of the more fervent evangelical religions or Amway consultants, have I met so many people who were so absolutely certain of so many

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The Greens Threaten Us with Floods but Fail to Protect against Them

David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. The devastating European floods reveal an incredible hypocrisy in the green agenda. They want to spend untold sums, supposedly to prevent natural floods by cutting emissions. But they spend

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SNA? No Way!

SNA? No Way!

Mark Cameron ACT Primary Industries spokesperson Ruawai Dairy Farmer ACT welcomes the Far North Council doing the right thing and dropping the plans to confiscate land from farmers and iwi. Private property rights are under threat thanks to the Government’s directive to councils to identify and manage Significant Natural

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A Porker of a Carbon Footprint

A Porker of a Carbon Footprint

“What”, asks The Young Ones‘ Rik, “is the major piggy contribution to society? It’s bacon, isn’t it? Bacon and rolling around in the mud!” According to new research, though, all that rolling around in the mud is making another major piggy contribution to the world: CO2. Yes, folks,

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Did Easter Islanders Really Experience Population Collapse?

Did Easter Islanders Really Experience Population Collapse?

Easter Island has long been a poster boy for Malthusians. Like other Polynesian so-called “Future Eaters”, the Rapanui people are argued to have settled and then become stranded on the remote island, where they quickly ate themselves out of house and home. When European explorers discovered the island, it had

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