Category Archives: Global warming and climate change policy

Government picking winners again + Steve Koonin on the climate caper + Energy realism

Posted on May 11, 2021 by Rafe Champion

UPDATE: SEARCHING ON ENERGY REALISM IN AUSTRALIA  to see if our site has a web profile yet.  This turned up. Australia, at Last, Has an Energy Realist at Its Helm   Not quite what I was looking for! Abbott is out, … Continue reading →

Posted in Global warming and climate change policy, Rafe, Wasteful Spending | 37 Comments

Snow in the age of global warming + who really likes Joe Biden?

Posted on May 8, 2021 by Rafe Champion

The pictures tell the story. A very interesting site too.  Check out the archive. Global Northern Hemisphere Southern Hemisphere This is her take on the election and the popularity of Joe Biden. Supposedly 81 million actual people, not just ballots, … Continue reading →

Posted in American politics, Global warming and climate change policy, Rafe | 17 Comments

China’s emissions have just gone past the emissions from the whole of the developed world!

Posted on May 7, 2021 by Steve Kates

From China’s emissions now exceed all the developed world’s combined published at Bloomberg. And because it is Bloomberg they try to make excuses for China: The massive scale of China’s emissions highlights the importance of President Xi Jinping’s drive to peak … Continue reading →

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Not all that prudent after all

Posted on May 6, 2021 by Steve Kates

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has just released a note on “guidance on managing the financial risks of climate change” which includes the graphic shown above. Now, if they were releasing an approach to dealing with the psychologically disturbed … Continue reading →

Posted in Global warming and climate change policy, Public Service Announcement | 26 Comments

An infinite supply of idiots

Posted on May 2, 2021 by Steve Kates

Labor seems to have an infinite supply of idiots: Victoria unveils its own climate change strategy, emissions target. The Victorian government hopes to cut emissions by almost double the level of the Morrison government by 2030 in an ambitious policy … Continue reading →

Posted in Electric Power and Energy, Global warming and climate change policy | 64 Comments

Alan Moran’s Climate News and Paddy McGuinness remembered

Posted on April 30, 2021 by Rafe Champion

Alan Moran’s May edition of  Climate News. An alarming survey of human folly around the world, Polls show US voters overwhelmingly favour the proposed deeper reductions in emissions. The US is starting to ban fracking, which has proved to be environmentally safe … Continue reading →

Posted in Australian Story, Global warming and climate change policy, Rafe | 14 Comments

Is there a lesson here for anyone?

Posted on April 28, 2021 by Steve Kates

Probably not. Idiots are idiots. From Instapundit. THE RENEWABLES FRAUD: After the Texas Blackouts, Follow the Wind and Solar Money – All $66 Billion of It. “What was the result of all that spending? When combined with the shutdown of several gigawatts … Continue reading →

Posted in Global warming and climate change policy, Politics of the Left | 26 Comments

David Bidstrup guest post. Idiot science

Posted on April 26, 2021 by Rafe Champion

I often wonder how the United States has managed to survive and thrive given their record of electing idiots to “look after them”. Mind you, other “democracies” seem to have the same fault; witness ours, the UK, New Zealand and … Continue reading →

Posted in Global warming and climate change policy, Rafe | 63 Comments

Johannes Leak on Biden’s Tea Party

Posted on April 24, 2021 by Rafe Champion
Posted in Global warming and climate change policy, Rafe | 30 Comments

Living in an “epistemological crisis”

Posted on April 23, 2021 by Steve Kates

I read this sentence which began the article and stopped right there. This, I said to myself, is the single most strikingly offputting statement that I have ever read that would ensure that from then on I would not trust … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture Wars, Global warming and climate change policy | 23 Comments