Viv Forbes Washpool Qld, Australia Wandering recently through an arcade popular with the green smoothie set, I saw a sign boasting: “Plant Based Meat”. Someone should advise those nutritional dunderheads that all real meat is plant-based. Real beef and lamb are built from live plants like grasses, lucerne and mulga,
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk says we’ll need more electricity to power cars like his. A lot more. Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Tuesday that electricity consumption will double if the world’s car fleets are electrified, increasing the need to expand nuclear, solar, geothermal and wind energy
The Labour Party may be useless at most things they do but one thing they are excellent at is acting like arrogant third-termers. It’s kind of weird to see people like Woods, Twyford et al behaving like entitled prats from just their first few days in the job. But
The green dragon poisons everything it touches. You might think that a usually sensible nation like Japan would be largely immune to the pie-in-sky hysteria of green delusion. Think again. Like too many nations, Japan has fallen for the chimaera of “carbon neutrality”, which will almost certainly have the same
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Today’s face of the day is a one-eyed Tui chick that my daughter and I rescued during our walk on Monday morning. He walked up to us musically peeping and clearly in need of help. It was a very hot day and it was obvious that he had met
Many years ago, I had a friend with the splendidly bourgeois name of Fiona. And bougie she was: middle-class, Arts degree, inner-city-living vegetarian, refugee-fancier and climate botherer. It was that last that eventually ended our friendship. Not on my part: I’m quite happy to be friends with climate alarmists.
Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com Viv Forbes is a geologist, financial analyst and weather watcher with long experience in Australian rural and mining industries. If climate alarmists win the elections, our freedoms and prosperity will evaporate like CO2 from a warm beer. The fact that their green energy program is madness
North Otago farmer Jane Smith says she likes to “play the ball, not the man,” but when it comes to Environment Minister David Parker and his freshwater reforms – she’s willing to make an exception. “David Parker’s actually made this very personal, he’s on a personal crusade,” she
In a classic sketch from Beyond the Fringe, a group of cultists gather for their predicted end of the world. When it fails to occur on schedule, the cult leader remarks, Well, it’s not quite the conflagration I’d been banking on. Never mind, lads, same time tomorrow… we
The Norwegian Blue parrot might pine for the fjords, but some Indian parrots hanker for something completely different. 2020 has already given us Murder Hornets and Monkey Gang Wars. Now we’ve got Parrot Drug Crime to deal with. Farms in India have reached out to the authorities after repeatedly
Press Release: F.A.R.M “It is almost unbelievable that one of the leading Methane scientists in the world, Dr Myles Allen, Professor at Oxford University who was a prominent designer of the GWP (Global Warming Potential), system has done a major backflip demanding the EU drop the long-touted
The motivations and tactics of an ultra-wealthy minority bent on governing the world have been laid bare in Climate Hustle 2, a film just released on-line. What began in 1968 as the Club of Rome with a campaign to limit world population growth, found in 1988 that they could use
