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Government is hard – and as Mark Twain quipped – expensive. “I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures [and legislators – kh] that bring higher prices than any in the world.”

Given New Zealand's effort to wreck manufacturing and farming with cow taxes and renewable energy rationing, why should the tourism industry be left unscathed?

Despite desperate offers of subsidies from the Federal Government, one of the last oil refineries in Australia is set to close, along with a string of dependent industries, thanks to years of political hostility towards manufacturing...

According to the New Zealand government, so long as farmers continue productivity improvements, increasing the meat content per head of cattle, it should be possible to maintain current meat production with a substantially...

People send me stuff. Today I got a PDF (purportedly from the Biden White House Team) titled “Biden early calendar of themed-days” I have a local copy saved which you…

In mid October, an illegal campfire on World Heritage Site Fraser Island caused a blaze which is still smouldering. Fraser Island is only 8 miles across - so questions are being asked, about why a tiny island connected to...

According to the German climate website Kalte Sonne, the renewables obsessed German and city of Hamburg governments intend to shut down local coal and nuclear power plants, but have no serious plan to make up the resulting...

One of the distinguishing features of British society vs repressive tyrannies like the Soviet Union used to be that you didn't have to carry identity papers to prove your right to walk down the street.

Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who is currently a senior advisor on the board of Boris Johnson's post Brexit trade panel, is trying to stop British MPs from wrecking Britain's future by inserting a series of...

From the National Mining Association: Americans can’t afford to pay more for electricity, especially with millions out of work in the midst of pandemic-induced economic upheaval...

Centuries of efforts to drain swamps to extend arable land in Ireland are being reversed, in an effort to trap more carbon.

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Viv Forbes; The The Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements Report has been released. But the commission’s apparent overt genuflection to climate disaster memes has...

The Dutch Supreme Court in 2015 ruled that that the Netherlands had until 2020 to reduce CO2 emissions by 25%, a ruling which was upheld in a 2019 appeal...

Authorities have ordered dam operators to try to hold back incoming flood water, as Chinese manufacturing and farming heartland cities in the Yangtze Delta are bracing for yet more severe flooding...

Even Forbes, whose deep green editors recently censored Michael Shellenberger for criticising the climate movement, has sharply criticised California's headlong rush into a new dark age of unreliable electricity.