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Jan 11, 2025 | 
cfact.org | Christina Norman |Joanne Nova
The Los Angeles Fires seem to symbolize the great achievements of collectivist governance. It took decades to reach these Black Belt levels of incompetence: to weaponize the committees, neutralize the media, and to teach the people that fires are caused by hamburgers and stopped by solar panels. Currently 150,000 people are still under evacuation orders in Los Angeles and some 10,000 buildings are estimated to have been destroyed.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
cfact.org | Joanne Nova
This will slow down the parasitesThe most exciting thing I heard today was that AI was used to find all the nasty surprises secreted away in the 1,500 pages of US legislation that was being pumped through Congress in the days before Christmas. Legal aides must have spent all year stacking the deck with tricks to enrich the political class. No human could unpack the fine print overnight, but AI could.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
cfact.org | Joanne Nova
If you have the feeling that our universities are working for the opposition, you might be rightThe UN lists China as a developing nation, too poor to cut carbon emissions themselves, but somehow they can find the money to help the richest nation in the world reduce their fossil fuel use. The Washington Free Beacon found a climate non-profit called Energy Foundation China was run by former Chinese Communist Party officials.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
cfact.org | Christina Norman |Joanne Nova
The Australian electricity grid is not-fit-for-purpose. And failure is being normalized. Last Wednesday, during the near-miss of a blackout in Sydney, the AEMO spent $3,558,000 on “demand reduction” which means they paid productive industries to stop working to save the grid from a blackout.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
cfact.org | Alex Dimitriadi |Robert White |Christina Norman |Joanne Nova
Australia is too energy poor to use air-conditioning and dishwashers on a warm day. Welcome to Bananaustralia. The Premier of NSW issued death threats about electricity bills to get attention:“If you use electricity this afternoon, you’re going to get killed in terms of how much you pay, the amount of money (to run appliances) this afternoon will be through the roof,” he said.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
cfact.org | Christina Norman |Joanne Nova
The Greens have become the “punching bag” of the Left and the RightThings just keep getting worse for the Greens in Germany. After two terrible performances in recent state elections the Party “crashed out of the state parliament” in the Brandenburg region of Germany (which surrounds Berlin). Results were so awful, the two current leaders of the German Greens have jointly stepped down.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
cfact.org | Christina Norman |Joanne Nova
If these green groups were really tin-rattling charities supported by Mum and Dad donors, there would be outrage that so many funds were diverted from forests and fluffy animals to lining the pockets of the staff. But apparently the largest donors to these groups don’t care either, because the money keeps on flowing. According to E&E News the CEO of the World Wildlife Fund, Carter Roberts, takes home a nifty $1.2 million each year in compensation.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
cfact.org | Christina Norman |Joanne Nova
The need for energy in India is so dire the Modi government just leaned on the power companies to get their act together. Instead of adding the usual 1 – 2 gigawatts of new coal power, which they have for a lot of the last decade, last year they ordered enough gear to build 10 gigawatts. And this year, Modi wants them to aim for 31 gigawatts, which is about the same capacity as the entire coal generation of the Australian National Grid (and our gas plants, too).
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
cfact.org | Graham Lloyd |Christina Norman |Joanne Nova
Sixty percent of all human CO2 emissions have been emitted since 1985 but today the corals are healthier than everIn 1985 humans were emitting only 19.6 billion tons of CO2 each year, and now we emit 37 billion tons. In the meantime AIMS have been dragging divers thousands of kilometers over the reefs to inspect the coral cover.
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Jun 15, 2024 | 
cfact.org | Christina Norman |Joanne Nova
Wind energy failed on Thursday at what must be close to a record low — with barely 88MW of production from 11,500MW of wind turbines. That’s about 0.7% of total nameplate capacity. With construction costs running at $2 million for every theoretical megawatt of turbine, that’s $20 billion dollars of machinery sitting out there in the fields and forests of Australia producing about as much as two diesel generators.
