“Last year the Cornwall Alliance reported on our blog that Sri Lanka was headed for serious trouble. Now, sadly, our prediction is coming true. … Analysts mention excessive government debt, lack of foreign exchange, political corruption, the Covid-19 pandemic, and other factors, but one of the most serious was the government’s sudden order, in April… Continue Reading

“Today, public servants are told to stay home and grow vegetables to feed their families while the Tuk Tuk drivers – transport mainstays in the capital after the buses ran out of fuel – have no fuel. The torching of the houses of rich rulers was not an unexpected outcome. … How did it happen… Continue Reading

“We are seeing what’s happening in Sri Lanka, we are seeing what’s happening in the Netherlands, there are protests in other countries growing, [and] Canada is following the same line with fertilizer. This is a war against modern civilization. [I blame] the World Economic Forum and U.S. climate envoy John Kerry, who ‘can go to… Continue Reading

“For instance, guidance from the British government’s anti-radicalisation scheme Prevent suggested that school and university students who have expressed interest in Extinction Rebellion (XR) should be referred to the scheme, along with those who expressed admiration for terrorist groups like Islamic State or the neo-Nazi organisation National Action.” Originally published here by The Conversation on 7 July 2022. Continue Reading

“Thanks to Rachel Carson’s unscientific claims about DDT in her 1962 book Silent Spring, the environmental movement against DDT [and later climate change] began with blind stupidity. In 1972, the U.S. EPA banned DDT. Then in 2004, several countries decided to ban DDT at the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. Today, most arguments (and… Continue Reading

“Claudia Tebaldi and Reto Knutti concluded in 2007 that the entire field of probabilistic climate projection, which often relies on combining multiple climate models, had no verifiable relation to the actual climate, and thus no predictive value. Absent ‘new knowledge about the [climate] processes and a substantial increase in computational resources,’ adding new climate models… Continue Reading

“The story of present-day high inflation in the United States—with a gallon of gasoline now exceeding $5.00, and overall prices increasing by a 40-year high of 8.6 percent—is a stark reminder of politicians willfully ignoring history and repeating its policy blunders. Inflation rampaging America’s economy is the result of the combination of $6 trillion in new, supplemental federal spending since 2020, ostensibly to… Continue Reading

“Daly (sub. D107) has pointed to the work of Newell et al. 1989 and Lindzen 1990 for support of the notion that uncertainties in the interpretation of the modern observational record, and uncertainties in the physics of the feedback processes associated with clouds and atmospheric moisture by scientists in the IPCC scientific assessment process, has… Continue Reading

The CO2 Coalition’s Economics Associate, Darren Brady Nelson, initiated the commissioning of the 2017 independent study by Dr Alan Moran for Senator Malcolm Roberts entitled The Finkel Report’s Recommendations on the Future Security of the National Electricity Market: Impacts on the Australian Economy and Australian Consumers. On page 5 there was a very telling graph,… Continue Reading

“[The] aim in this paper is [to] propose an authentically Austrian approach to climate change policy. Such a proposal is necessary because the dominant Neoclassical framework fails to provide an adequate defence of property rights and a secure foundation of knowledge for policy. … [Thus, the] two currently favoured climate policy instruments, taxes and emissions… Continue Reading

“Who would have thought that affluence would be measured by who could afford lettuces at $20/kg, rather than Lamborghinis? … Australian governments cannot use the war in Ukraine and Putin to explain away the prices rises and supply issues. … Years of flawed climate ideology has destroyed our ability to grow food in Australia. The… Continue Reading

“Our planet is not sick. It is being made to look sick so that bureaucrats, politicians, bankers, mining giants, and big business can profit from the abuse of power that the fear of death brings. … This is necessary, because without widespread belief in the terminal illness of ‘Climate Change’ none of the catastrophic and authoritarian overreach dreamt… Continue Reading

“Australia has, throughout its history, been a land of drought, floods, and fire. It is recognised as the driest inhabited continent in the world; inevitably, modern ideology relates all these facts to Climate Change. The latest point of concern is a series of storms that have resulted in major flooding events along the East Coast.… Continue Reading

“If you want to go organic you have to cut down more forests to have enough production, because fertilizer use enhances crop production,” Vijay Jayaraj, a research associate at the Co2 Coalition, explained to TheDCNF. “And if you’re cutting down fertilizers, then it means that you need more land to produce enough crops to even meet the… Continue Reading

“The prevailing wisdom that underpins the sense of climate urgency in today’s policy debates—10 years to save the world!—stems from three sets of speculative models developed over the last 30 years by scientists working under the umbrella of the IPCC. But empirical evidence taken from the real world suggests that the IPCC’s estimates of future… Continue Reading

“It’s been a momentous couple of weeks at the Supreme Court. As usual, they saved the big cases for the end. This year the big three were Bruen (gun rights), Dobbs (abortion rights) and West Virginia (administrative regulation of CO2). All three cases were decided 6-3 along ideological lines. These cases involved the most basic… Continue Reading

Brian Deese, Director of President Biden’s National Economic Council, was asked in a recent CNN interview, “What do you say to those families that say, listen, we can’t afford to pay $4.85 a gallon for months, if not years?” His answer? “This is about the future of the Liberal World Order and we have to… Continue Reading

“After studying the only legal basis offered for the EPA’s [now former] rule, I concluded [in 2014] that the agency is asserting executive power far beyond its lawful authority. The Clean Power Plan would set a carbon dioxide emission target for every state, and the EPA would command each state, within roughly a year, to… Continue Reading

“It is remarkable that the world has been convinced that one of its most pristine ecosystems is on its last legs. The science behind this claim is wrong … but no-one wants to remedy the problem.” Originally published here at NetZero Watch on 7 December 2020. Continue Reading

“Are wind, solar, and batteries the magical solutions to all our energy needs? Or do they come with too high a price? Mark Mills, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, analyzes the true cost — both economic and environmental — of so-called green energy.” “Have you ever heard of ‘unobtanium’? It’s the magical energy mineral… Continue Reading

“The Supreme Court’s decision [yesterday] in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency is an important brake on the administrative state that has inexorably grown since the New Deal. The Court held that in issuing new emission caps designed to remake the U.S. power generation industry in an Obama era Clean Power Plan, the Environmental Protection… Continue Reading

“Dr. Jordan Peterson has upset climate change alarmists [last January] by claiming on the Joe Rogan Experience that long-range climate models aren’t accurate. … [H]e made valid criticisms that highly schooled and decorated climate skeptics have also raised. These include Nobel laureate Dr. Ivar Giæver, legendary physicists such as Drs. Will Happer and Freeman Dyson, and… Continue Reading

“The role of scientists is to investigate the structure and laws of natural phenomena and to conduct research and advance knowledge. Science is ideally an open-minded and open-ended process, where theories are continually tested and updated based on evidence. … But.., for many people, science has become associated with a particular worldview, which is often… Continue Reading

Humans cannot harm the environment. “What constitutes an ‘environmental problem’? At first glance the answer might appear obvious. Issues like air and water pollution, animal extinction, or the over-use of resources, such as might be associated with the ‘tragedy of the commons,’ all come to mind. … If a by-product of production that is emitted… Continue Reading

“Mankind’s subservience to the commands of nature provides the connecting thread between Nazism and modern day environmentalism and represents a radical rejection of the Enlightenment’s belief in progress. … Urbanized, industrialized man’s breach with nature is a recurrent theme. … The culture that gave rise to it existed before the rise of the Nazis and,… Continue Reading