Torn between a decade-long reliance on cheap Russian gas on the one side and a sudden desperation to be energy independent in the face of the Ukraine war, Germany is now in the uncomfortable position to have neither. Until the end of this year, the last three standing nuclear power plants in Germany are scheduled…
Shark Week has become a staple of American television. Debuting in the summer of 1988 the event has morphed into a week-long block of programming at the Discovery Channel featuring all kinds of entertaining and educational shows focusing on sharks. Hot off the heels of this year’s event, I could not help but be drawn…
Climate activists propose that we embrace the argument that CO2 is a pollutant as an article of faith without delivering compelling evidence. Noting that CO2 warms the planet by trapping heat in the earth’s atmosphere is an inept argument because warming has positive and negative effects. The strength of the green movement is predicated on the belief that warming is a…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi knows that providing his citizens with reliable, inexpensive energy is one of his most important responsibilities. When launching the auction of 41 coal mines for commercial mining in June, Modi said, “Today’s auction is a win-win for all stakeholders. Industries will get new markets. State governments will get better revenues. Employment opportunities will be…
Lithium extraction fields in South America have been captured by an aerial photographer in stunning high definition. But while the images may be breathtaking to look at, they represent the dark side of our swiftly electrifying world. As the lightest known metal on the planet, [lithium] is now widely used in electric devices from mobile…
8.22.2022
Australian bank announces it will BAN loans for petrol or diesel cars in order to fight climate change and encourage electric vehicles
Customer-owned Bank Australia will stop petrol and diesel car loans from 2025. Electric vehicles this year have a minuscule 1.6 per cent market share even when Tesla sales were included, with starting prices of $47,000 and a lack of charging stations turning off many potential motorists. But the customer-owned Bank Australia wants to change that, in a…
Imagine the theory of gravity being determined by a partisan vote. Or a group of politicians ruling on interpretations of the laws of modern physics. Bizarre as those propositions sound, that is what is happening in climate science. There are large factions of politicians and scientists committed to a baseless narrative that emissions of carbon…
Koonin won the Oxford Style debate since 25% of the in-person and online audience shifted to his view that the debate question: “Climate science compels us to make large and rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions” is a false statement. You should be able to view the entire debate by August 24th, I’m told, on…
Now progressives are moving to censorship phase two, which is shutting down debate over climate ‘solutions.’ Progressives first demanded that social-media platforms silence critics of climate alarmism. Now White House national climate adviser Gina McCarthy wants them to censor content on the costs of forced ‘green-energy’ transition. A few years ago, Facebook enlisted third-party paid-to-lie…
Americans are less concerned now about how climate change might impact them personally — and about how their personal choices affect the climate — than they were three years ago, a new poll shows[.] Overall, 35% of U.S. adults say they are “extremely” or “very” concerned about the impact of climate change on them personally,…
Climate change is indeed an “insufficient” crisis. Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations (1776) points the way towards a post-apocalyptic climate politics. “We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages”. There is growing support for a climate politics…
The debate I announced here between Steve Koonin and Andy Dessler took place Monday August 15th, it was very educational and illuminating. I will try and write more about it in a few days. In short Andy Dessler said that economic models suggest that climate change is a negative for human civilization and not positive at all.…
Hello, my name is Patrick Moore and I’m going to talk to you about my new book “Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom”. I know that sounds a little bit sensational, but I think you’ll agree with me that it’s a good title for this book. It is a ground breaking book that postulates…
When you look at climate alarmists, there are really only two options: they either don’t know what they’re talking about, or they’re lying. The “Little Boy Who Cried ‘Wolf’”-like cries of “existential threats” brought on by climate change would be hilarious, if it wasn’t for the disastrous impact from misguided actions to “fix” the problem.…
According to the UAH temperature satellites that have been criss-crossing the continent for 40 years, Australia shows no warming for precisely the past decade. And globally, UAH satellite readings to end-of-June show no warming for seven years and 10 months. The ground-based HadCRUT series likewise shows no warming for 86 months. Authored by Tony Thomas and…
8.15.2022
Governing Elites Pushing To Slash Emissions Are Disconnected From Reality, Experts Say
Governments have adopted sweeping emissions-reduction legislation in recent months that could have devastating consequences on the agricultural sector, as elites’ ignorance of economic realities fuels a myopic pursuit of the climate agenda, according to experts. “The decision-makers are so far up the food chain, pardon the pun, that they are literally clueless about what it…
Climate and environmental science are among the most wishy-washy of all the sciences. Due to an inability to prove many of its more outrageous claims with physical evidence, it has relied on the qualification of ‘peer review’, consensus, and the wholly unsuitable standard of computer modelling. ‘Peer-reviewed’ is not interchangeable with ‘established fact’ or ‘beyond…
8.15.2022
Riddikulus reef-dementors: The death of the Great Barrier has been greatly exaggerated
Harry Potter fans know what a Dementor is. To quote Remus Lupin it is a creature that: glories in decay and despair, they drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them… get too near a Dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked out of you. I am reminded…
If you think the $5 corn cobs and $8 cauliflowers currently on the shelves of your fruit shop are expensive, just wait until the transport sector is dealing with Labor’s climate policy. There will be many businesses that become unviable in an environment of even higher energy costs, and you can be sure it will…
A crisis in the supply of industrial carbon dioxide has created chaos in the American craft-beer industry, New Orleans brewer Jacob Landry said on “Fox & Friends First” on Wednesday morning. “Carbon dioxide is pretty critical during lots of different stages of the brewing process,” said Landry. “We need it in order to push beer from…
Authored by Peter Ridd and originally published at the Daily Wire on 11 August 2022 here.
A major controversy in marine biology took a new twist last week when the University of Delaware (UD) found one of its star scientists guilty of research misconduct. The university has confirmed to Science that it has accepted an investigative panel’s conclusion that marine ecologist Danielle Dixson committed fabrication and falsification in work on fish behavior and…
African countries must have reliable, abundant, and cheap energy (e.g., fossil fuels) to accelerate economic development. Fossil fuels power economies and people’s lives. To deny these countries the possibility of developing with fossil fuels by imposing climate goals that the Western world itself fails to achieve is hypocritical. And malicious. Authored by Manuel Tacanho and originally…
According to the latest Australian Institute of Marine Science report, there is record coral cover at the Great Barrier Reef. Yet this is less than 30 percent at about half of the reefs surveyed. The relatively low percentage cover is because only the reef perimeter is surveyed by AIMS, which is the equivalent of reporting on…
Seasonal to decadal variations in Northern Hemisphere jet stream latitude and speed over land (Eurasia, North America) and oceanic (North Atlantic, North Pacific) regions are presented for the period 1871–2011 from the Twentieth Century Reanalysis dataset. Significant regional differences are seen on seasonal to decadal timescales. The results highlight that northern hemisphere jet variability and…