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18  Breathtakingly Wrong Environmental Predictions

18 Breathtakingly Wrong Environmental Predictions

The first Earth Day was in 1970, and back then, many ‘apocalyptic’ predictions were made about the environment. Mark Perry at Carpe Diem AEIdeas blog has gone back and looked at them in order to present us with all the predictions that they got so spectacularly wrong 49 years ago.

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View From Your Window
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View From Your Window

Where do you think today’s photo was taken? window@thebfd.co.nz Please put View From My Window in the subject line. Yesterday’s view was of Lake Tinaroo from the house at the Atherton Tablelands near Cairns Queensland. NOTE: We prefer photos to be from a window with

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Wednesday Nightcap

Wednesday Nightcap

Copenhagen Consensus Centre Director Bjorn Lomborg says the world is getting “virtually nil” impact from the $240 billion spent subsidising green energy every year.

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View From Your Window

Where do you think today’s photo was taken? window@thebfd.co.nz Please put View From My Window in the subject line. Yesterday’s view was of Trier, Germany. NOTE: We prefer photos to be from a window with preferably part of the window in the shot. They do

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View From Your Window

Where do you think today’s photo was taken? window@thebfd.co.nz Please put View From My Window in the subject line. Yesterday’s view was of Odda Norway. NOTE: We prefer photos to be from a window with preferably part of the window in the shot. They do

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Millennials Are the Saddest Generation

Millennials Are the Saddest Generation

We all love to make fun of Millennials. Such intergenerational baiting is easy enough, for sure, with such a generation of apparently spoiled, entitlement-mentality snowflakes. But it should also be borne in mind that the Millennial generation has more than a few problems of their own. Like all young generations,

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View From Your Window

Where do you think today’s photo was taken? window@thebfd.co.nz Please put View From My Window in the subject line Yesterday’s view was of Portsmouth Historic Boatyard and it was taken from Emirates Spinnaker tower located in Portsmouth England. NOTE: We prefer photos to be from

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NZ Suspends UNRWA Funding
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NZ Suspends UNRWA Funding

Israel Institute of New Zealand: New Zealand has now joined the the Swiss, Dutch, and Belgium governments in suspending donations to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) following an internal report that found “credible and corroborated” allegations of serious ethical abuses including “sexual misconduct, nepotism, retaliation, discrimination and

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The BFD BONUS World News Quiz

The BFD BONUS World News Quiz

Today is the last day that our volunteer Person-of-color is doing the World News Quiz. We need a replacement asap. Full training will be provided but be assured that Apester is very easy to use. Please make contact today if a weekly quiz is something that you would enjoy creating

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Conservative Opinions Not Welcome

Conservative Opinions Not Welcome

Last week I wrote about how Wokeness has infected Miss Universe New Zealand. It seems that the Ms America pageant is not immune either. Katie Williams is disappointed that just days before the Ms. America pageant she was stripped of her Ms. Nevada State 2019 title and denied the chance

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View From Your Window
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View From Your Window

Where do you think today’s photo was taken? window@thebfd.co.nz Please put View From My Window in the subject line Yesterday’s view was of Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok, Thailand. NOTE: We prefer photos to be from a window with preferably part of the window in the shot.

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