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
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
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
When bushfires burned through parts of the west coast of Tasmania in 2016, the Klimate Kult were quick to jump on the bandwagon – certainly far quicker than they ever are to jump on a fire tanker. “Ecocide!” they shrieked. “These places have never seen fire for millions of years!” And,
Despite the predictable screeching of the climate cultists, ghoulishly trying to pump up the tyres of their clapped-out bandwagon by hitching it to the current NSW bushfires, the fact remains that it ain’t climate change wot dun it. The biggest proximate cause is the devastating drought which has
NZ Farming 13 December at 12:45 · My understanding of a Museum was it was a true and accurate record of history, facts, truth and science. Not some sort of fake news machine out to distort visitors whether they be tourists or Kiwis. Serious questions on the management need answering
Just recently, one Tasmanian council had the guts to swim against the tide of local government virtue-signalling and almost unanimously reject a motion to declare a “climate emergency”. Despite the outrage of the green lobby, the council made the right decision. Firstly, there was no action plan attached to
In a post earlier this week, Jacinda Ardern Powered by Eight-year-olds, I commented on the futility of the latest unnecessary and useless plastics ban proposed by our Prime Minister and the fact that she makes decisions on the trot on the basis of the “many letters” she receives
Taking care of our environment and being good citizens of the planet we inhabit is basic common sense and to be fair, we Kiwis are generally pretty darned good at it. We don’t litter our own environment the way many other countries do and we are constantly self aware
This is how solid waste management is “managed” in Cuddalore district Thittakudi Bellaru India. Don’t worry though as our great PM is going to save the world one fruit sticker at a time.
It’s striking just how thoroughly bourgeois is the climate change phenomenon, at every level from the Eton old boys behind Extinction Rebellion to the Greens-voting wealthy inner suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney. Climate change is the ultimate first-world problem, the almost exclusive preserve of the anxious middle-
Sustainable NZ Sustainability is based on the principle that everything we need for our survival and well-being depends on our natural environment. It means meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Our focus on sustainability means that we
Press release: NZ First 1800 new police New Zealand First was proud this week to deliver on our Coalition Agreement commitment to add 1800 new police and make an exciting funding announcement for alternatives to 1080. On Thursday, Rt Hon Winston Peters attended Recruit Wing 332’s graduation, which brought
Viv Forbes Viv Forbes has science and financial qualifications and long experience in mining, farming, weather cycles, bushfires and politics in Australia. He was an active member of the Mt Walker bush fire brigade for over 20 years. He remembers the terrible Millennium drought and he and his wife fought
