David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. Watching a child grow is seeing carbon dioxide in action. Plants turn CO2 into the food we eat to live and grow on. “You can’t live on air”
From the BFD inbox: “Zero Carbon? Maybe they should just give it away for maximum feels.” “Picked up 4 x 2L of this new on the market BS zero carbon milk for $1.25 each (that’s a hell of a markup if a buck 25 is cost-plus gst) oh
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This government is not comfortable with a trade-off between COVID-19 and the economy or the environment and the economy. It’s either one extreme or the other with no meeting in the middle. One whiff of community spread and we will be sent back to lockdown, region by region. Most
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Fear is a natural survival instinct and arguably more motivating than logic and reason. It can also be used to great effect to shift the mindset of communities and nations. While such manipulation is, of course, not uncommon, what is surprising is how blind societies
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Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com Before sunrise yesterday, the grass temperature in Washpool, “Sunny Queensland” was minus 1.7 deg. There was no wind or sunshine. Wind turbines were becalmed and not even moonbeams energised our solar panels. In that still, frosty darkness, green energy failed again. Not a watt came
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Forbes this week without explanation has memory-holed an article by award-winning climate activist Michael Shellenberger, in which he apologizes “for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years.” At The BFD we like to shine sunlight on content assigned to the memory hole by MSM publishers so have
The RMA is a cumbersome and expensive piece of legislation that 30 years and 19 amendments, including the Greens’ latest contribution, have failed to make workable. It should be scrapped and rewritten. A recent example of the inefficient process is Watercare’s application to take more water from the Waikato
As psychologist Hal Herzog writes, in his Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat, humans are practically incapable of thinking consistently rationally about animals. Animal activists are well aware of this basic irrationality and exploit it to the hilt. The campaigns of animal activists are invariably long on
Watercare’s 2013 application with the Waikato Regional Council waits for RMA approval to take an extra 200 megalitres of water to cater to Auckland’s increasing population demands, but 105 applications are ahead of it on the RMA list. Auckland’s reservoirs were depleted during the very dry summer
I first read about the Passenger Pigeon when I was but a boy. Then, as now, it was a staple of the eco-doom narrative kick-started by Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. And, like Carson’s book, it’s a severely flawed narrative which overlooks key facts. The Passenger Pigeon was
When I wrote recently about the ABC’s “fact-checker” almost admitting that a conservative prime minister was correct, I put it down to a new kid on that day, who didn’t know the iron rule of ABC “fact checks”. It turns out that I may have been wrong (it
R&BAvenger Watched ‘Planet of the Humans’ on YouTube last night. A real eye-opener for me and my other half. Interestingly she was also inspired to watch Andrew Bolt and Rowan Dean‘s take on the movie as well, which came up immediately afterwards. The best part for the
Dave Pellowe davepellowe.com The latest documentary by Michael Moore is free to watch in its entirety on YouTube. Ad revenue may be his best bet of monetising his “work” these days as box office sales are a mere shadow of what they once were. I watched Michael Moore Presents:
