Tag: climate alarmism
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Stop Wasting Water
25th January 2024 Almost every river in Eastern Australia is now pouring surplus water into the sea. But only two dams have been built in Queensland in the last 20 years – the<https://www.seqwater.com.au/dams/wyaralong> Wyaralong Dam built 13 years ago and Paradise Dam built 19 years ago. Droughts will come again and we will wish for…
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Ottawa’s Suicidal Climate Plans a Cautionary Tale for Governments Everywhere
by Tom Harris and Dr. Jay Lehr, ©2022 (Apr. 14, 2022) — Politicians leading the City of Ottawa have fallen hook, line and sinker for climate alarmism and, as a consequence, Canada’s national capital is on the verge of a deadly self-induced crisis. This is being brought on by their obsession with “stopping climate change,”…
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Power not Poverty
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2022 (Mar. 16, 2022) — “The past was green and fuzzy – the future is black and ominous.” — Richard Sebrof The green fairy-tale is over. Even the green cheer squad in the bureaucracy and the media can sense the change. The sudden end was signalled by…
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Biden’s Climate Power Grab via Trillions of Dollars in Annual Federal Procurement
by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2021 (Nov. 26, 2021) — Spending by federal agencies is governed by the extensive Federal Acquisition Regulations or FAR for short. In response to a Biden executive order the FAR Council is conducting a silly public inquiry as to how climate change should be factored into federal spending. The Federal Government…
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The Silly Science of Climate Alarmism
by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2021 (Nov. 19, 2021) — You may think that climate science is complicated and that the scientists who are alarmed about climate change know what they are doing. Well, yes and no. The climate is complicated but scientists have bought into some very silly science. Happily this is all easy to…
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COP 26: Radicals Lose on Every Issue!
by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2021 (Nov. 15, 2021) — The radical alarmists proposed a fistful of bad stuff during COP 26. A lot was in the surprise COP President’s proposed decision document on the last Wednesday, with just three days to go. See my https://www.cfact.org/2021/11/12/cop-26-with-bidens-help-the-cop-goes-wild/. Other ridiculous stuff was proposed by various country groups. None…
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The Crafty Language of Climate Alarmism
by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2021 (Oct. 12, 2021) — I am constantly entertained by the artful ways alarmists bend language to their will. This often happens as science stories percolate through the media. Each step is a bit of a stretch, maybe not an obvious lie. But the sequence of stretches takes us so very…
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Climate Modeling Civil War
by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2021 (Aug. 16, 2021) — Looks like the climate modeling community may have a civil war on its hands. Some serious players are rejecting the new hot models, but probably not their owners. If so we will see modeler against modeler. Be still my heart. The first loud public shot has…
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Green Wrecking Balls
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2021(Aug. 4, 2021) — Claiming to save the world from the global warming ghosts, climate alarmists are smashing our future with Green Wrecking Balls. However their policies destroy ridge-line forests to make room for subsidised bird-chopping wind turbines with their clear-felled spider-webs of roads and transmission lines.…
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Unfounded Fear of Extinction Drives Climate Hysteria
by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2021 (Jun. 29, 2021) — A new poll says that fear of human extinction is widespread among climate alarmists. This is very surprising but it explains a lot of the extremes we are seeing in alarmism. No wonder these people are so determined. Where is this completely unscientific idea coming from?…
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Crisis Looms in Alarmist Climate Science
“THE ISSUE IS EXPLODING” by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2020 (Oct. 20, 2020) — Climate science is dominated by alarmists addicted to the idea that increasing carbon dioxide will cause dangerous global warming. How much warming is thus the central scientific question. This question has been surprisingly difficult to answer despite 40 years of research, costing…
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CLINTEL Challenges IChemE Climate Scaremongering
“FERVENT CATASTROPHISM” by David Wojick, ©2020, CFACT (Sep. 2, 2020) — The Institution for Chemical Engineers (IChemE) is a prestigious international group of scientists and professionals with over 35,000 members in about 100 countries. IChemE has been conducting what it calls a consultation on its draft Position Statement on Climate Change. This basically means that…
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Climate Alarmism versus Integrity at National Academies of Science
CLAIM: SCIENCE “ABUSED ON A GLOBAL SCALE” by David Wojick, ©2020, CFACT (Jun. 29, 2020) — National Academies of Science should speak out against climate alarmism, not support it. This is the major message in a recent letter from Professor Guus Berkhout, president of CLINTEL, to the new head of the Royal Netherlands Academy of…
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Trump Order Confronts Big Tech Bias
“ON THE RIGHT TRACK” by David Wojick, ©2020 (Jun. 10, 2020) — President Trump finally issued an Executive Order targeting viewpoint discrimination by Big Tech social media companies. The Order grows out of Trump’s summit on this thorny issue last July. Topping the list of targets are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Google, but there…
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Re-build Muscle, not Flab
“REMOVE ALL BARRIERS” by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2020 (Apr. 22, 2020) — To download this article with all images click: https://saltbushclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/muscle-not-flab.pdf In order to kill Corona-wasps in the ceiling, politicians have knocked our economic house down. Now they dream of rebuilding the house by driving at full speed into the borrow-and-spend…
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Virginia’s “Clean Economy Act” Will Have Dirty Results
850-FOOT-TALL TURBINES, 3.5 TIMES DC COVERED WITH SOLAR PANELS, MINING, CHILD LABOR, PRICEY POWER by Paul Driessen, ©2020 (Mar. 4, 2020) — Largely with party-line, urban-vs-rural votes, Virginia’s legislature is poised to enact a Clean Economy Act that would eliminate coal-based electricity generation, prevent construction of new gas-fired power plants – and replace reliable, affordable…
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Climate Alarmist Banks Go Carbon-Colonialist
AFRICA MUST MOVE FORWARD WITHOUT THEM, USING FOSSIL AND NUCLEAR ENERGY TO BUILD PROSPERITY by Paul Driessen and David Wojick, ©2019 (Dec. 28, 2019) — Africa has the world’s lowest electrification rate. Its power consumption per capita is just 613 kilowatt-hours per year, compared to 6,500 kWh in Europe and 13,000 in the United States,…
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Time for Climate Sense
“THE GREAT GRAVY TRAIN” by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2019 (Dec. 23, 2019) — Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) was a Swedish scientist who first claimed that the burning of hydro-carbons like coal, oil, gas, peat and wood may cause global warming. In 1895 he calculated (incorrectly) that a doubling of the atmospheric CO2…
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Feeding the Fat Green Pigs
“A FAKE EMERGENCY” by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2019 (Oct. 31, 2019) — In the era before coal, oil and electricity, the environment suffered greatly. Whales were slaughtered for lamp oil; forests were cleared for firewood, mine props, building materials, roofing shingles and sailing masts; London (“The Big Smoke”) and Pittsburgh (“The…
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Google Discriminates against Conservatives and Climate Skeptics
WE MUST UNDERSTAND HOW GOOGLE DOES IT, WHY IT IS WRONG AND HOW IT HURTS AMERICA by David Wojick, ©2019 (Aug. 31, 2019) — Several months ago, Google quietly released a 32-page white paper, “How Google Fights Disinformation.” That sound good. The problem is that Google not only controls a whopping 92.2% of all online…