Returning Monday, July 15th
Writing about grim things can take a toll on your soul. Batteries need recharging. Perspective needs recalibrating. Here’s to blue skies, roses, beach sand, and sunshine! . .
Failed Replication of Famous Research Rejected
When scientific journals decline to address their own fake news.
Censorship Canada Style
Justice Committee cleanses the record – not of hate, but of awkward ideas.
Freedom to Read, to Think, to Speak
Censorship is gaining traction in Canada. To a frightening degree.
Extreme Politics: The Roger Pielke Jr. Story
Rabid dog climate enforcers will destroy you without conscience or regret.
Heat Wave Hysteria Coming Soon
You will be encouraged to believe things about weather-related deaths that are the opposite of the truth.
Diabetes, Doctors & Real World Results
Some people are ‘curing’ their Type 2 diabetes by changing what they eat.
Refuting the Smear Machine – Part 2
People tell themselves fairy tales about UN organizations – and disparage journalists who shine a light on what’s actually going on.
Refuting the Smear Machine – Part 1
When a journalist thinks for herself about climate change, insults & fabrications follow.
Defending My Honour
Anonymous allegations are republished by an allegedly respectable website.
Australian Elites Equally Bonkers
The rural/urban divide is as pronounced in Australia as elsewhere.
UN Biodiversity Officials Fail Transparency Test
IPBES provides no CVs for most members of its influential panel.
UN Targets the Sand People
Allegations that mining threatens wildlife rely on activist ‘evidence.’
IPCC Clone Predicts Doom
Once again, the ‘world’s leading scientists’ provide cover for UN machinations.
Before You Vote Green, Please Learn Some History
Pessimists ‘have been repeatedly and decisively proven wrong.’
Street Preacher Greta Thunberg
Don’t you listen to the street preacher. He ain’t nothing but a false teacher.
Peter Ridd vs The Dishonourables
A powerful bureaucracy bullies, berates, isolates & intimidates a lone critic.
The Splendid Peter Ridd Court Judgment
James Cook University took 28 separate actions against Professor Ridd. Each of them, including his termination, has been declared unlawful.
Mice, Medical Research & the Media
Reputable media outlets routinely mislead the public when reporting the latest scientific discoveries.
10th Anniversary Fundraiser
If I’ve helped you better understand the climate debate, the IPCC, the shortcomings of academic research, or that Borg-like entity known as the United Nations, please let me know.
This Destructive Green Fantasy
Climate change good intentions are causing grave harm.
Canada’s Carbon Tax Will Kill People
‘Winter mortality is lower when the price of heating is lower’: new research report.
When Government Lies to You
Carbon dioxide is not pollution. Our planet would be a wasteland without it, bereft of both plants and animals.
Migrants prone to hatred & intolerance: UN
It’s April Fools’, but this is no hoax. Report commits the sin it condemns.
UN Abandons Hijab Rebellion Lawyer
2 days after lawyer is sentenced to 33 years, Iran appointed to women’s rights committee.
The Media & the WWF Torture Scandal
News organizations have turned their own journalists into WWF cheerleaders.
The WWF Expose, the Media & Earth Hour
A year-long BuzzFeed investigation accuses the WWF of horrific human rights abuses.
Birds, Wind Turbines & Nuclear Power
How many birds should we slaughter in the name of saving the planet?
Vaccines & the Globe’s Most Vulnerable
Tourists who eschew vaccination are reintroducing disease to less affluent countries.
Parasite Green Lawyers Target Toilet Paper
Everyone’s standard of living drops as daily necessities become more costly.
Journalist George Russell, Haiti & the UN
Journalists who specialize in the UN are rare; George Russell’s retirement is unhappy news.
Zombie UN Body Now Regulates Your Car
An obscure UN body established to rebuild WW2 Europe, is now determining international automobile brake standards.
UN Thwarts Slum Schools – Part 2
UN committee rejects educational progress, refuses to respect the choices of the poor.
UN Thwarts Slum Schools – Part 1
Instructs UK to stop assisting parent-financed schools – under the guise of enforcing the International Convention on the Rights of the Child.
What Happens When We Sign a UN Treaty?
If I were trying to parody intrusive UN behaviour could I have invented a more absurd document?
UN Has No Authority Over Me – But Is Working Hard to Change That
Nations have been demoted; on the top level of the org chart we now find the Borg.
International Law: Stealing Our Freedom
Goodbye self-determination. Hello authoritarian conformity.
Ramming the ‘Great Food Transformation’ Down Our Throats
You’ll eat those vegetables – or else.
Lancet EAT Report Promotes Activism Over Science
Medical journals are supposed to be the opposite of fake news.
What Would a No-Borders World Look Like?
Good intentions aren’t enough. Once broken, some things cannot be mended.
Democracy Dies Without National Borders
A nation’s voters decide their own fate, but only their own.
The EU’s Immigration-Fueled Nightmare
A report outlines a dystopian future in which EU citizens find themselves outnumbered 7 to 1 by recent arrivals. This is cultural genocide.
Global Poverty Can’t Be Solved With Immigration
Economic migrants are distinct from refugees running for their lives. But the two are increasingly blurred.
Climate Skeptics: The Despised Minority
Vilifying climate heretics remains socially acceptable.
Whistler Ski Resort Plays Climate Scold, Gets Scalded
Jack Crompton, the mayor of Whistler, has damaged his community but gained nothing.
Dreadful Year End for the UN
If you’re a UN bureaucrat, recent weeks have been full of disappointment.
The Anti-Democratic United Nations
Presidents and Prime Ministers come and go. The smug, bloated, out-of-touch UN machine persists.
At the Morocco Meeting on Migration
Norway champions free speech, firmly rejects migration as a human right.
About Those French Protests: 5 Insights
Ordinary people loathe carbon taxes – and might bring down your government.
UN Migration Pact: Normalizing State Censorship
Which parts of this agreement do our governments intend to implement? Which parts do they repudiate?
UN Pact Doesn’t Define ‘Migrant’
A historic agreement to ‘strengthen migrant rights’ doesn’t explain who qualifies.
Academic Journals: High Stakes, Few Safeguards
If a journal’s decision can make or break your career, its employees wield extraordinary power.
French Carbon Tax Protests
Yellow vests imposed on motorists become powerful anti-government symbol.
Peer Review: Selfie-Sticks & Snobbery
The current system gives some scientific errors high prestige packaging
The Basement, the Penthouse & the 2-Stop Elevator in Between
It’s no longer accurate to talk about the developed vs the developing world.
Thank Goodness for the Industrial Revolution
Long the whipping boy of environmentalists, the Industrial Revolution lifted humanity out of misery and squalor.
Jordan Peterson: Climate Change Won’t Unite Us
Concern about global warming is dead last amongst 16 priorities.
Recycling: Wasting Your Time & Your Money
Spending scarce resources on a separate collection system for material no one wants isn’t sensible.
Competing Worldviews
Attempting to understand why people vote the way they do is more useful than sneering at half a country’s population.
Systematically Ignorant Nobel Laureates
Scientists score lower than chimpanzees when quizzed about basic, state-of-the-world facts.
UN Climate Panel: Meaningless Mental Masturbation
Scores of scientific minds. So much tomfoolery.
IPCC: Where Dictators Overrule Scientists
No matter how undemocratic, impoverished, sparsely-populated, or terrorism-promoting a nation might be, a sentence written by scientists will not survive if that nation objects.
IPCC: Redefining ‘Global Warming’ at the 11th Hour
On what planet is it OK for politically-determined definitions to supersede those written by actual scientists?
Mysterious IPCC Expertise
The IPCC publishes the citizenship and gender of its authors – but says nothing about their scientific expertise.
The IPCC’s Cynical Ploy
The latest IPCC report was a setup – a cynical ploy to produce alarmist media headlines that succeeded beautifully.
The Last Chance Climate Saloon
November 2000 and December 2009 were both supposed to be our last, best chance to save the planet from climate disaster. This week, the media is once again spreading this message.
IPCC Pretends the Scientific Publishing Crisis Doesn’t Exist
If climate research is like other research, half of the IPCC’s 6,000 academic citations are dubious.
Which Women Should We Believe?
Hundreds of women insist the current US Supreme Court nominee is tremendously supportive of female equality. Why doesn’t every news story offer us a chance to believe them?
Stories Versus Facts
Last week, in a sickening spectacle, grownups behaved as though a vague, wholly unproven story involving teenagers 30+ years ago is relevant to whether a candidate is fit to be a US Supreme Court judge.
Third Quarter Report
The most smug, most self-indulgent, least curious journalists in history.
BBC Ignores Widely Publicized IPCC Problems
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is essentially a law unto itself, an entrenched culture with no meaningful oversight mechanisms.
The BBC’s Naive View of the UN’s Climate Machine
The BBC is a huge bureaucracy. The geniuses running it have declared another bureaucracy – the UN’s IPCC – a font of scientific truth. How pathetic.
Harvard’s Social Justice Infection
‘Social justice’ is an extremist, left wing political analysis many consider repellent and infantile. It’s as though academics have no idea the rest of us think they’ve gone insane.
Yale: Social Justice Training Camp
Entities explicitly committed to social justice: Yale’s School of Nursing, School of Medicine, School of Public Health, School of Art, religious organizations.
The Nightmare on Campus
Reading Heather Mac Donald’s new book is like stepping into a bad dream.
School Homicides: More Unreliable Data
The average number of school-related homicides per year appears to be 33. The US Dept. of Education’s claim of ‘over 100’ in 2015-2016 should be treated with grave skepticism.
School Shootings: Why Fake Numbers Matter
Bad data fuels ill-informed decisions, wastes money, and scares kids.
Fake School Shootings
A US government report about school shootings is riddled with errors.
Sweden Democrats: That’s Enough Now
How should women dress in public given the religious views of some immigrants? Jimmie Åkesson says men ‘who feel they can’t control themselves’ are welcome to wear blindfolds.
Fooling Canadians About Refugees
As a historic number of people were applying for asylum last year, journalists insisted nothing unusual was going on.
Evidence Free Journalism
The Swedish political party that has been shouting itself hoarse about anti-Semitism is the one journalists keep describing as neo-Nazi.
Beware Swedish Election Coverage
Every time the media mentions the Sweden Democrats, we’re reminded of sins decades in the past. But there’s no parallel, incessant reminder of the Green Party’s documented links to the Nazis.
The Earthquake About to Hit Sweden
Sweden’s population: 10 million. France and UK total population: 133 million. Sweden has accepted more asylum seekers than France and UK combined.
Trump, Censorship & Media Bias
Journalists can’t seem to help themselves. Every blessed thing gets twisted.
Swedish Car Fires: A Numerical Perspective
If 3,260 vehicles had been torched in America, how safe would ordinary people be feeling?
Public Trust & Press Freedom
There’s a world of difference between denouncing media bias and sending in the military to close television stations.
The Media’s War on the Public
When Donald Trump rails against fake news he speaks for millions of people who are tired of being silenced and smeared.
InfoWars Ban: Why Hermione Granger is Smiling
The people who removed InfoWars content from Facebook, YouTube, and iTunes this week need to re-read the fifth Harry Potter book.
Behavioural Change: The Guaranteed-to-Fail Climate Solution
Changing people’s behaviour is profoundly difficult.
Media Memes
The covers of news magazines such as Time and The Economist used to tell the truth.
Polar Bear Dies, National Geographic Lies
Iconic magazine admits it published fake news. Makes no promise not to do it again.
Plastic Straw Ban: Humorous Memes
Online jokes about plastic straws provide welcome comic relief.
Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen
Why does the city of San Francisco need a full-blown Department of the Environment?
Ocean Plastic: The 1% Solution vs the 55% Solution
If we want to protect the ocean from plastic, we need to think strategically.
Coercing Your Neighbour Over Plastic Straws
Green activists are in the business of taking away choices.
Butter, Cream & Grains of Salt
Peer-reviewed science can be found to support nearly every position.
Secretive Blacklists & The Economist Magazine
Reporting on peer review, The Economist misses the elephant in the room – and advocates unjust hiring practices.
Wholesome Family Fun
Unlike many dads cast by Hollywood, this one is competent, accomplished, and a pillar of the community.
More Oxford University Fake News
A webpage vetted by Oxford is misleading the public about a fake geological era.
Greenpeace’s Nazca Vandalism: Half-Truths & Trifling Consequences
Only one person has been held accountable. To this day, Greenpeace refuses to identify the full list of culprits.
What the Thai Cave Rescue Teaches Us About Nature
Humans make things safe, clean, and healthy.
Oxford University Spreads Fake News
The most reputable publishers imaginable are misinforming the public about basic geology.
Anthropocene: The Media’s Fake Geological Epoch
Journalists declaring something to be the case before it has actually happened is outrageous and unethical.
The Recycled Plastic Scandal
Green groups fantasize about a world in which everything is virtuously recycled. They’re prepared to use other nations as refuse heaps in pursuit of that fantasy.
Second Quarter Report
Green groups are not David with a slingshot. They are Goliath. Please support the scrutiny & skepticism I bring to environmental issues.
Hallucinations in High Places (More on the 1988 Hansen Climate Hearing)
Powerful people construct amazingly inaccurate narratives about their own lives.
What Really Happened 30 Years Ago?
In the climate world, the line between real and fake is strangely murky.
Journalists Relied on James Hansen’s Say-So
The media’s climate frenzy was sparked by a scientist who’s research was still unpublished.
Laundry Blues & Greens: Part 1
A friend has long complained that her energy efficient, front-load washing machine takes forever.
Extinction is Inevitable
Species come and species go. Humanity’s role is smaller than most of us imagine.
Banning Plastic Straws, Harming Real People
Causing real harm with no realistic chance of improving the world makes no sense.
From Carbon Footprint to Plastic Footprint
Polluted waterways are one more reason not to litter. Rather than making this point, greens are demonizing plastic.
Greens Are Pivoting, Plastic is Their New Obsession
Politicians & 10-year-olds think banning drinking straws in rich nations will address improper garbage disposal in poor ones.
Ehrlich’s Guide to Being an Intrusive A**hole
People with 8 kids should be told they “surely would not behave that way today.” Those considering a third should be accused of self-indulgence.
Why Paul Ehrlich Matters
If it had been within his power to take the steps he insisted were necessary, the human rights abuses would have been horrendous.
Anything Goes When You’re Saving the World
Paul Ehrlich advocated the use of US helicopters so that Indian peasants could be kidnapped & forcibly sterilized.
How They Sold ‘The Population Bomb’
Threats of famine, dead children, bombs, nuclear war, and oblivion.
The Science of Self-Control
Another idea, supposedly confirmed by science, turns out to have little scientific foundation.
If You See Something, Say Something
Why Scott Adams thinks we have a moral obligation to praise others.
Scott Adams on How Failure Can Breed Success
The Dilbert cartoonist remembers what it was like to be a young person from a small town, with few role models and fewer connections.
How Much Plastic is Polluting the Ocean?
Peer-reviewed studies, published six months apart, produce wildly different estimates.
Coleman Hughes on the ‘Racism Treadmill’
We regularly urge young people to think outside the box. Hughes is doing just that.
Is Tomato Soup Good for You?
‘Healthy’ is now being defined in radically different ways, by different interest groups.
Eat Your Veggies (With Lots of Butter)
In the low-carb universe, vegetables are served with lots of butter, mayonnaise, and hollandaise.
The Most Trusted Canadian Is A Dick
In person, David Suzuki is reportedly foul-mouthed and rude.
Totalitarian Thinker David Suzuki
On June 7th, the University of Alberta will lionize someone who rejects freedom of thought.
Suzuki: No iPad for You, But Australian Digs for Me
For the past 30 years, carbon-footprint-warrior David Suzuki has considered Australia his second home.
David Suzuki’s Actions Speak Louder Than His Words
He decries over-population, but fathers 5 kids. He’s against economic growth, but his once-tiny foundation now has offices in 3 cities.
Skin in the Game
Emotionally attached to ideas, some of us have little interest in how they perform in the real world.
Europe’s Jews Are Living in Fear
Naive compassion for some people endangers the safety of others.
Why is Discrimination Against Asians OK?
Full-fledged racism is being practiced by the very institutions that claim to abhor it.
Invisible Scientific Debates
Scientific debate can’t accomplish its purpose if we pretend there is no debate.
Self-Correcting Science: A Slow & Haphazard Process
The celebrated ability of science to self-correct is accompanied by some major caveats.
Perverse Scientific Incentives
There are structural reasons for the low quality of much scientific research.
Science is Not Truth
We need to lose our naivete. Many scientific findings are neither crisp nor clear.
Polar Bears & the Sleazy New York Times
A gang of 14 scientists attack a lone scientist in an academic journal. Erica Goode justifies & amplifies the assault in the Times.
The Sierra Club: Usurping Power from Elected Officials
When you give money to the Sierra Club, you’re doing three bad things.