If You Only Have Time to Read a Few Select Articles: *** Largest drop ever: Math scores see biggest plunge in 50 years of records *** America’s Catholic schools defied the sobering trends regarding learning loss *** George Will: K-12 education’s alarming decline could be a dominant 2024 issue *** K-12: The War against Children…… Continue reading The Media Balance Newsletter: 3/7/23
Tag: Coal
Is Coal making a comeback?
Australian Mining’s uphill battle.Opinion by Alan Moran. https://www.regulationeconomics.com/_files/ugd/b6987c_eb6c9b8d38e24f5c98def8419704e9d6.pdf Getty Images Coal supplies a quarter of the world’s energy, oil and gas account for a half, and renewables – in spite of vast subsidies everywhere they are built – comprise just 7 per cent. While Germany is being ridiculed for re-opening coal mines, even tearing down…… Continue reading Is Coal making a comeback?
Achieving Net Zero
https://saltbushclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/achieving-net-zero.jpeg Feel free to use this cartoon with no alterations. Letter-to-the-Editor/Opinion Piece bySaltbush Club’s Viv ForbesAustralian Climate Sceptics BlogPlease Publish/Post/Pass on1st February 2023 According to the clerics of the Green Cult, once we blow up our last coal mine, send all diesel engines to the wreckers, stop using concrete, reinvent sailing clippers, cover the grasslands with solar clutter…… Continue reading Achieving Net Zero
The Media Balance Newsletter: 5/7/22
Welcome! We cover COVID to Climate, as well as Energy to Elections. Here is the link for this issue, so please share it on social media. Particularly note the asterisked items below… — This Newsletter’s Articles, by Topic — Ukraine: *** The old world is over: Key takeaways from Putin’s first major speech since Russia’s…… Continue reading The Media Balance Newsletter: 5/7/22
Vote ALP/Green for more Blackouts and more WASTED WATER
Saltbush Advice on Election EvePlease Pass on20th May 2022 For ages now in SE Queensland, it has been cloudy, rainy and largely windless. No sun electrifies the solar panels, intermittent winds play with the prayer wheels, and backup batteries are going flat. For just a while on some afternoons, wind and solar produce a trickle of…… Continue reading Vote ALP/Green for more Blackouts and more WASTED WATER
Hydrogen – the Magic Rainbow Gas
https://saltbushclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/hydrogen-hype.jpgFeel free to use this cartoon with no alterations.) Opinion Piece, Please Publish/Pass on19th May 2022 If you believe in the tooth fairy, or vote Green, you probably believe that hydrogen is the magic rainbow gas that will banish global warming, replace wicked hydro-carbons in electricity generation, fuel tomorrow’s trucks, planes and heavy equipment, and earn…… Continue reading Hydrogen – the Magic Rainbow Gas
Old Reliable Coal
Letter to the Editor, Australian Climate Sceptics Blog 14th May 2022 Old Reliable Coal For days now in SE Queensland, it has been cloudy, rainy and largely windless. No sun electrifies the solar panels, intermittent winds play with the prayer wheels, and backup batteries are going flat. For a while on some afternoons, wind and solar…… Continue reading Old Reliable Coal
Same Garbage – Different Flies
https://saltbushclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/same-garbage.jpeg(Feel free to use this cartoon with no alterations.) An Alternative Opinion Piece Australian Climate Sceptics BlogPlease Publish and Pass on. 30th March 2022 A comment on the Australian Federal budget by Viv Forbes of the Saltbush Club. “The Australian Budget was a profound disappointment. Not one useless law was repealed, not one tax was abolished and…… Continue reading Same Garbage – Different Flies
Power not Poverty
Warnings from the Saltbush ClubPlease Post, Publish and Pass on 21 March 2022 “The past was green and fuzzy – the future is black and ominous.”Richard Sebrof The green fairy-tale is over. Even the green cheer squad in the bureaucracy and the media can sense the change. The sudden end was signalled by rolling columns of Russian…… Continue reading Power not Poverty
Power not Poverty
An Alternative Opinion Piece by Viv Forbes Please Feel Free to Publish and Pass On. Power not Poverty 17th March 2022 “The past was green and fuzzy – the future is black and ominous.”Richard Sebrof The green fairy-tale is over. Even the green cheer squad in the bureaucracy and the media can sense the change. The sudden…… Continue reading Power not Poverty