The BFD Video: The Truth About the Australian Bushfires
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Environment
Mother Nature at her Fiery Worst
Terry Dunleavy climatescience.org.nz Did legendary Australian poet Henry Lawson call his country’s bushfires climate change? He most certainly did not. It’s nothing more than Mother Nature at her fiery worst. Tragic as it may well be, it’s happened before and it will happen again. It’
Green Vultures Swoop Pt. 2 – Scamming for Money
As already reported in The BFD, the political jackals of the green-left are pouncing on Australia’s bushfire crisis before the ashes are even cool. First, there was Tim Flannery’s climate muppet show, the “Emergency Leaders for Climate Action”. There being no show without Punch, GetUp have quickly
Human Jackals Pillage Bushfire Communities
It’s bad enough that, as Australia’s bushfire crisis rolls on, we have to put up with green vultures swooping to exploit the tragedy for both political and monetary gain. But, the most truly disgusting human jackals are arsonists and looters. Police arrested 183 people for lighting bushfires across
ENVIRONMENT: Politikiwi Election Promises Tracker
Over on the website Politikiwi they are tracking the government’s election promises. The website was launched eight months ago and its existence was announced on Reddit. It began as a personal project for 19-year-old software engineer Robert Calvert’s portfolio. Introducing Politikiwi – A polling aggregation and politician
Pacific Person of the Year
I have never known of a person who does so little and yet gets so many accolades. Jacinda Ardern, our laziest and most ineffective prime minister of all time has now been given yet another award. She has been named ‘Pacific Person of the Year’… although exactly what she has
The Green Vultures Swoop Pt. 1 – A Firestorm of Astroturf
It’s true that disasters bring out the best in some people – and they also bring out the worst. Where’s there’s a disaster, there are always looters and other opportunistic scum. Then there are the green vultures who swoop on the first whiff of smoke. Bullying left-wing
Ricky Gervais Blasts Hollywood
I never watch the awards shows nowadays. I used to love them. The glamour, the emotion, the suspense, wondering if your favourite movie will win ‘Best Picture’ – it all used to be a fascinating part of the entertainment industry. I particularly loved the gowns. No ordinary person would ever dream
Unfriendly Fires
I hope my esteemed colleague, Lushington Brady, will not mind me invading his patch just this once, but I really felt impelled to comment on the awful situation in Australia at the moment. As our closest neighbours, and the nation that is always first to come to our aid in
This is NOT the First Time That Australian Smoke Has Reached NZ
Australian bushfires are seasonal and as predictable as the sun rising in the east given favourable climatic conditions. The bushfire season in New South Wales and South Australia peaks in summer and autumn, meaning the worst may be yet to come. “The greatest danger occurs after the dry winter and
Are People Really This Thick?
We all know there are some very unintelligent people roaming this earth. I mean we have a Labour-led coalition for goodness sake so that’s proof positive that there is at least a discernible lack of joined-up thinking going on amongst a large portion of the people we
Green Civil War in Germany?
David Wojick, Ph.D. PA Pundits – International The stage is set for a big fight between two green Titans — the Green Party of Germany and Greenpeace Germany. They sound similar and used to be so, but no longer. When it comes to climate change, Greenpeace is a leading Action Now!
Put Foresters Back in the Forests
Viv Forbes Executive Director, The Saltbush Club Viv Forbes has been an explorer and pastoralist in Queensland and NT for most of his long life. He has lit fires (accidentally and deliberately), and he and his wife have fought fires and had their camps, fences and pastures wiped out by
The ‘Death’ of the Great Barrier Reef: Junk Science Strikes Again
Scientific claims are only worth the data they’re based on. In turn, that data is only as good as the methodology by which it’s collected. Among other things, experimenters should absolutely rigorously compare apples with apples. Measuring two different things, however similar they might be, and pretending that
Taxpayer-Funded Media Controlling the Fires Narrative
When the smoke finally clears from the fires burning along Australia’s east coast, there will be the inevitable government inquiries, almost certainly a royal commission. The findings of which will almost certainly be stealthily ignored. “The amount of prescribed burning occurring in Victoria is inadequate. it is concerned that
Dickheads Cost Lives
Awareness and voices are raised in criticism of government officials who restricted firebreak cutting and exacerbated the loss of lives, property and animals in Australia’s ferocious bush fires. “We’ve lost two people in my family because you dickheads won’t cut trees down,” Warwick Spooner told Nillumbik Mayor