Tag: climate
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Time for Climate Exit
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2023 (Dec. 1, 2023) — The world’s rich and famous, plus an army of publicists, hangers-on and mendicants, are attending the COP28 meeting in Dubai, the ostentatious 7-star play-ground capital of United Arab Emirates where even the police drive luxury sports cars. We peasant classes sitting at…
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Virginia – Don’t Follow Net-Zero Lemmings over the Energy Cliff
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2023 (Oct. 27, 2023) — Seventeen states – including Virginia – tie their vehicle emission standards and electric vehicle sale mandates to California, the most climate-centric state in the Union. Unless current laws change, by 2035 all their new cars, pickups and SUVs must be electric (or hydrogen-powered). In further obeisance…
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Not Green at All
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2022 (Nov. 14, 2022) — “Green” policies are destroying the natural environment and changing local weather. This is part of a futile UN scheme claiming to improve the climate of the world. All green energy degrades its environment. Take wind power. Wind turbines steal energy from the…
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Biden Energy Policies: Incoherent, Incompetent, Intolerable
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2022 (Sep. 3, 2022) — The U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in West Virginia v. EPA is truly a landmark ruling. It decisively rejected the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt to use vague, “previously little-used” language in the Clean Air Act to shutter America’s remaining coal-fired power plants and force the nation…
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Volcanoes, Oceans and Weather
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2022 (Jul. 27, 2022) — Despite Green/ABC propaganda, recent Australian floods were not caused by coal, cattle or cars. Weather is driven by winds; solar energy powers the winds and draws moisture for them from the oceans. These eternal natural rain-making processes have been aided recently by…
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Do Wind Farms Change the Weather?
by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2022 (Mar. 8, 2022) — The effect of lots of wind turbines on weather and climate is a small but active research area. Wind power converts wind energy into electricity, thereby removing that energy from the air. The research issue of how taking a lot of energy out might affect weather…
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COP26: Methane Madness
by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2021 (Nov. 4, 2021) — The grandly aspirational announcements getting all the COP 26 press actually have nothing to do with the COP, which is basically a business meeting. Most of these big news events are in reality trivial, such as India saying it will try to hit net zero 50…
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Weather, Climate and Model Madness
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2021 (Sep. 14, 2021) — Weather or climate? It pays to know the difference before we slaughter our economy on the climate alarm altar. “Weather” describes atmospheric conditions at any location – temperature, humidity, clouds precipitation and winds. Every place has its own weather which depends on…
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Countdown to COP26 on the Road to Failure
by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2021 (Sep. 8, 2021) — It is less than 60 days until COP26 convenes in Glasgow. We can expect a flood of climate horror stories (including flooding). But there will also be some discussion of the actual issues, so here is a brief breakdown of the big four. Keep in mind…
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A Green Virus is Being Spread by the World Climate Conference – They Must be Gagged for our Safety
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2021 (Apr. 24, 2021) — The Biden-Boris green virus which infects most of the west has become a danger to Australia. PM Morrison has promised one billion dollars for “hydrogen, CCUS (carbon capture usage or storage), batteries and critical minerals – all to achieve “net zero”. NOT…
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Publication Recommendation: “The Week That Was”
February 8, 2021 Dear Friends and Colleagues: I am a longtime subscriber and supporter of SEPP. You can sign up free of charge and decide whether or not you’d like to keep reading. Click on the URL and you get this week’s issue which is available first thing Monday morning. Here is the link: http://www.sepp.org/the-week-that-was.cfm…
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Two Nuclear Options
by Paul Driessen, ©2021 (Jan. 27, 2021) — We’ve heard about “nuclear options” since Harry was still Senator Reid. America now faces two major nuclear options: one involves political power, the other power to run an energy-dependent economy. In the political arena, President Biden and his allies are already going nuclear. With a resurgent Deep…
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Why Worry about Warming? Cold is the Killer
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2020 (Nov. 14, 2020) — To download this article with valuable graphs click:https://saltbushclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/cold-is-killer.pdf Green alarmists are fanning a firestorm of fear about man-made global warming. Earth always cycles between warmth and cold. Every recent warm period (Medieval Warming, Roman Warming etc) was a time of plenty for…
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Aussie Politicians Fight Three Wars at Once – Climate, Covid and China
“UNLOCK THE GATES” by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2020 (Jul. 20, 2020) — Australian politicians are trying to maintain their never-ending Climate War on carbon fuels while waging a Lockdown War on the elusive Covid virus and also provoking a Trade War with China, our biggest trading partner. To download this article…
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Locks and Chains, Hobbles and Handcuffs
“THE LOCKDOWN DEPRESSION” by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2020 (May 18, 2020) — To download this article with all images click: https://saltbushclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/unlock-australia.pdf The Lockdown Depression is rushing towards us. Many in politics, media and industry are digging the hole deeper, some through panic and ignorance, others cynically pushing anti-industry agendas or serving…
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Priceless Crisis
“THE CLIMATE CIRCUS” by David Wojick, Ph.D., ©2019, CFACT (Jun. 21, 2019) — Having hitched their wagon to the unicorn of climate catastrophe, the Democrat candidates for president are caught between a rock and a very hard place. Each of these twenty contenders has to try to stand out from the crowd and they will…
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Natural Cycles, not CO2, Control Earth’s Climate
“INCONVENIENT TRUTHS” by Viv Forbes, ©2019, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club (Jun. 11, 2019) — To download this article with a cartoon image click: https://saltbushclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/cycles-control-climate.pdf The war on hydro-carbon fuels will have no measurable effect on global temperatures. Nor will carbon taxes, carbon offsets or subsidies for wind turbines or solar panels. There are climate…
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The Mad Mad Maths of Australian Emissions Targets
“REMORSELESS” by Viv Forbes, ©2019, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club (May 12, 2019) — Most politicians live in a green fantasy-land where facts and numbers don’t count. They dream up fanciful figures for proposed cuts to industrial and agricultural emissions without any understanding of the remorseless growth of population. The Australian government has set a…
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Following Foolish Forecasts
“DOCTORED DATA” by Viv Forbes, ©2019, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club (May 5, 2019) — Well-trained meteorologists with mountains of real data and massive computers cannot forecast the weather more than a few days ahead. But make-believe academic “climatologists” using doctored data have created over 100 complicated computer models pretending to forecast global climate decades…
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A Green New Deal? Really? Paris Accords? — Stop the Insanity!
“QUI BONO?“ March 29, 2019 Dear Friends and Colleagues: Please forgive me, but I must, once again, beat this horse, because it refuses to die. Too many folks, who should know better, are insisting that massive action must be taken to stop climate change – because they “truly believe” it is a life-and-death matter. Such…