Tag: carbon dioxide
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How Dare YOU – Doom Pixie and Your Political Pals!?!
by Paul Driessen, ©2026 (Aug. 30, 2026) —Swedish activist Greta Thunberg earned her moniker Doom Pixie because of her diminutive height and shrill accusations of human and planetary doom allegedly due to fossil-fuel-fueled climate change. Her most famous tirade was directed at world leaders for allegedly doing too little to stop it. “How dare you?”…
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Activists, Media, and Politicians Infected with Dangerous Overconfidence on Climate Change
by Tom Harris, ©2025 (Dec. 9, 2025) — “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” So said the character Touchstone, the court jester, in Shakespeare’s comedic play As You Like It. If England’s greatest poet and dramatist were still alive, he would point out the…
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Net Zero Burial of Carbon Dioxide?
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2024 (Jun. 3, 2024) — The Queensland Government recently placed a ban on pumping and dumping carbon dioxide into the rocks of the Great Artesian Basin. This was an event rarely seen – politicians have stumbled onto a sensible energy policy. Burying CO2 would achieve nothing useful…
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Geological Discovery Upends Politically Correct Climate Science
by Tom Harris, ©2024 (Feb. 23, 2024) — Over the past few decades, one of the greatest mystery stories in the history of science has played out—trying to understand why changes in the output of the Sun, not human emissions of greenhouse gases, appears to be the primary driver of climate change on Earth. For…
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Climate Confusion
by Mike Latham, ©2023 (Sep. 18, 2023) — Well, the climate cultists, activists, the misinformed and the uninformed are at it once again. Yesterday in New York City, thousands marched and howled to warn us of an existential threat: the end of the world (Earth) as we know it. The movement featured the likes of…
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Earth’s Climate: a Bona-Fide Problem or Another Government H-O-A-X?
by Mike Latham, ©2023 (Aug. 17, 2023) — For four decades now, we’ve been preached to by the cult-like climate alarmists. They and their acolytes’ carp on earth’s impending doom if we do not comply with their absurd position regarding the continued use of carbon-dioxide-producing materials. The cultists claim the science on the matter is…
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Childish Beliefs Drive Lethal Energy and Agricultural Agendas
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2023 (Feb. 27, 2023) — Many eco-activists (and too many legislators, regulators, judges and journalists) have trouble thinking beyond slogans. They apparently believe declaring ecological emergencies, repeating clever mantras, and issuing proclamations and mandates will create a fossil-fuel-free, organic farming utopia. In their dreams. Since 1950, American farmers increased per-acre corn…
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Achieving Net Zero
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2023 (Jan. 31, 2023) — According to the clerics of the Green Cult, once we blow up our last coal mine, send all diesel engines to the wreckers, stop using concrete, reinvent sailing clippers, cover the grasslands with solar clutter and the hills with wind machines and…
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Bravo, Terry! and There’s Climate Science, and Climate Science!
December 13, 2022 Dear Editor, Terry McCrann’s excellent HS, 13/12, “Coal, gas plan merges stupidity and lunacy” reflects the 1970s Whitlam/Cairns whacko, Australian-economy-destroying-style thinking of Labor’s 21st century Albanese/Chalmers combo based on “Thermomaniacs’” lamentations of the supposed man-made burning-of-fossil-fuels woes of today’s atmosphere! “Thermomaniacs” not only imply we, truly believing-in-science, man-made-climate-change- caused sceptics (we’re certainly…
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Farming the Air
by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2022 (Feb. 14, 2022) — You are built almost entirely out of carbon dioxide and water. So is all the food you eat. Likewise for all the energy you use moving about and staying alive. Carbon dioxide and water! In short the carbon dioxide in the air is the global food…
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Earth’s Ever-Changing Climate
by Mike Latham, ©2021 (Sep. 21, 2021) — For well over three decades, we’ve all been bombarded by a cult-like drumbeat/mentality, claiming that mankind is destroying Earth’s atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels. The allegation is that it all started with our increased use of fossil fuels during the Industrial Revolution of the late 19th…
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Agriculture Policy is a Climate Change Witch Hunt
by David Wojick, CLINTEL, ©2021 (Jul. 3, 2021) — Political debates over climate policy under the present zeitgeist of climate-change hysteria is like competing to see how many witches you can burn. This is how Professor William Happer described the situation after his recent lecture on the three greenhouse gases targeted by today’s draconian national…
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Golly. A Brave New Climate Czar. How Swell!
February 2, 2021 Dear Friends and Colleagues: I hate to seem like a one-trick pony, but the devil makes me do it. Just put it to music and sing along with me … “Well, it’s Climate Time Again, your goin’ to hate me, I can see that faraway look in your eyes…” Dear old Joe…
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Let’s NOT Commit Intellectual and Economic Suicide — Please!
“EARTH’S CLIMATE IS CHAOTIC, NOT STATIC” August 13, 2020 Dear Friends and Colleagues: For those ready to roll their eyes with “…There he goes again…” please bear with me. The “plans” of the presumptive Democrat nominee for president, if he were to stumble into that esteemed office come November (heaven forbid – please) are out…
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Time to Unmask America
DO THE RISKS OUTWEIGH THE BENEFITS? by Jeff Crouere, ©2020 (May 30, 2020) — In the fight against the spread of Covid-19, a big dividing line in our country today is whether to wear a face mask or not. It also seems to have political connotations. For example, for Memorial Day remembrances, former Vice President…
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The Needless Rush to Return to the 18th Century — There’s NO Denying
“DON’T FALL FOR THE HYPE” January 20, 2020 Dear Friends and Colleagues: I apologize in advance for the length of this. I understand that my comments may likely be rejected or ignored by some who’ve already succumbed to the false prophesies of doom and gloom and believe that we are incinerating our planet by enjoying…
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National Parks are Bushfire Havens
“FLANNERY FICTION” by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2019 (Dec. 20, 2019) — Too many recent headlines say: “A fierce new bushfire is burning in the XYZ National Park. Nearby residents should prepare to evacuate.” Neglected, overgrown, weed and log infested, un-grazed, unburnt, government-protected parkland is a danger to all neighbours. All it…
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Agriculture Secretary Restricts Alarmist Announcements
“POLITICAL” SCIENCE OR “SOUND” SCIENCE? by Dr. Jay Lehr & Tom Harris, ©2019 (Sep. 13, 2019) — Sonny Perdue was well chosen by President Donald Trump to be Agriculture Secretary. As part of Perdue’s efforts to put our agricultural house in order, he has succeeded in filling the upper echelon of the agency with straight…
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Repent, Repent, the End is Near — Save Ourselves as we Starve in the Dark
“CERTAINLY NOT REAL SCIENCE” August 3, 2019 Dear Friends and Colleagues: They’re at it again, frightening small children and kittens, too (and, unfortunately, some adult voters as well). We have only 12 years – or it’s curtains for our planet! You want proof? Look at this summer’s 100-degree-plus temperatures in Northern Europe’s big cities…. Well…
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Time to Talk of Cabbages and Kings…
“THE FREIGHT TRAIN TO POVERTY” July 23, 2019 Dear Friends and Colleagues: Classical education was admired, desired, and fairly widespread in years past. It included the “classics,” learning foreign languages – even defunct ones such as Latin and Ancient Greek – and history, philosophy, literature, science, and math. But, more recently classical education was pushed…