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
Well the usual spring dump of snow has finally arrived. About a week late by my reckoning so maybe there is something in this Climate Change lark! Anyway, snow is pretty. So here’s a few photo’s from out and about near Arrowtown today. Please feel free to add
Press Release: ACT Party “Labour’s policy to ban stickers on fruit and plastic knives and forks is nothing more than virtue signalling that will inconvenience New Zealanders,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “This is classic Labour Party policy. There will be no problem definition or cost-benefit analysis.“The Government’
If you ever doubt that we live in a Clown World, just remember that Australian governments use taxpayers’ money to fund organisations whose specific purpose is to oppose government decisions. “Environmental Defenders Offices” exist purely to stymie developments already approved by governments. In effect, these quangos are taxpayer-funded green lobbyists.
Driving along one of Tasmania’s two major highways (yes, we do have them!) the other day, there was a snarl of traffic banked up for kilometres behind a slow-moving load. Once the road reached an overtaking section (OK, we’re not flash enough to have dual carriageways all the
Never hold an inquiry unless you know the outcome. Never ask a question unless you already know the answer. Both of these adages hold true with regard to two ongoing public inquiries in Australia. One, the Bushfires Royal Commission, has panned out more or less exactly as feared: a soapbox
Koalas have become such a hot-button issue in NSW that they are threatening to split the state government. At issue is new state legislation that aims to preserve the creatures from supposed imminent extinction. In the wake of last summer’s bushfires, activists have claimed that koalas are in danger
Suzanne Hanning Bristol Grove Dairies I can’t sleep. There’s a few things on my mind. I know farmers are supposed to be resilient and just get on with things, but I’ve been chewing over the new laws our government has just passed for a wee while now.
Secretary for the Environment and Chief Executive Ministry for the Environment Dear Ms Robertson The role of the Environomics (NZ) Trust is to ensure that evidence-based science is at the forefront of discussion for policy development in New Zealand. I write regarding the Ministry for the Environment’s publication, “National
Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com Viv Forbes is a geologist, financial analyst and weather watcher with long experience in Australian rural and mining industries. Solar energy is very dilute, so solar collectors usually cover huge areas of flat arable land, stealing farmland, starving wild herbs and grasses of sunlight and creating
