Written By: - Date published: 9:12 am, February 21st, 2016 - 8 comments
Cyclone Winston is the strongest ever southern hemisphere storm. Fiji has been hit hard.
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, January 27th, 2016 - 79 comments
How many more lies will John Key tell today in his so-called State of the Nation address? Virtual chocolate fish to whomever guesses the closest number.
Written By: - Date published: 12:51 pm, January 21st, 2016 - 32 comments
TV3 have announced they are getting out of the news business and getting into cross platform media hotdesking across the continuum of diminishing eyeballs. Welcome to TV3 Newshrub, the place where no news is good news!
Written By: - Date published: 10:48 am, January 13th, 2016 - 154 comments
The Bank of Scotland has advised advised its clients to brace for a “cataclysmic year” and a global deflationary crisis.
Written By: - Date published: 8:27 am, December 8th, 2015 - 68 comments
Despite having no scientific background, no relevant experience and no related portfolios Paula Bennett is the new Minister in charge of Climate Change Issues.
Written By: - Date published: 8:35 am, December 7th, 2015 - 21 comments
Heavy flooding in Chennai and the North of England is the latest in a long line of recent extreme weather events. Welcome to the Anthropocene.
Written By: - Date published: 9:19 am, November 22nd, 2015 - 41 comments
Nationwide protest marches are planned in New Zealand on November 28 in the run up to the Paris Climate Change talks to give the message to world leaders that real action to address climate change is required.
Written By: - Date published: 10:09 am, November 20th, 2015 - 54 comments
The fifth anniversary of the Pike River disaster has just occurred. This post records some comments made by Andrew Little on his recollection of the day after.
Written By: - Date published: 7:01 am, November 20th, 2015 - 98 comments
As the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment warns of the risks of sea level rises and recommends action, National are clear that they will take none. They are determined to leave all the risks and costs of climate change to future governments.
Written By: - Date published: 7:30 am, November 19th, 2015 - 107 comments
The Paris climate change talks will force leaders to confront climate change and the threat of terrorism at the same time. Can they show the same determination to deal with the gradual but inevitable threat of climate change as they purport to show to deal with the immediate threat of terrorism.
Written By: - Date published: 9:57 am, November 4th, 2015 - 211 comments
“‘Unless the world acts decisively in coming weeks, the Pacific as we know it is doomed,’ says Fijian prime minister Frank Bainimarama”. Odds of the world acting decisively in the coming weeks – effectively nil.
Written By: - Date published: 8:40 am, November 1st, 2015 - 54 comments
There is a catastrophic event happening in one of the world’s more populous nations which is receiving very little attention from the media. Indonesia is burning and no one is paying attention
Written By: - Date published: 2:50 pm, September 29th, 2015 - 11 comments
It’s not just lefties such as yours truly who think it’s mad to cut agricultural (especially emissions) research.
Written By: - Date published: 12:28 pm, September 25th, 2015 - 29 comments
Cutting research into greenhouse gases? With our emissions profile? Now? This can’t possibly be mere stupidity. This must be willful blindness.
Written By: - Date published: 12:24 pm, September 17th, 2015 - 21 comments
Tsunami warning for the East Cape, Chatham Islands, Coromandel and Banks Peninsula after #chile quake. http://rnz.to/1UVX5BY
Written By: - Date published: 11:37 am, September 4th, 2015 - 29 comments
Today is five years since the first of the Canterbury / Christchurch earthquakes. Christchurch voices are calling out for leadership.
Written By: - Date published: 9:04 pm, August 28th, 2015 - 107 comments
When European and NATO countries participate in destabilising and destroying nearby countries, the human tragedy doesn’t stay neatly confined to the other side of the border.
Written By: - Date published: 5:11 pm, August 25th, 2015 - 12 comments
I/S at No Right Turn: “the government is spending tens of millions of dollars a year paying these companies to destroy the world. It is absolute madness”.
Written By: - Date published: 9:40 am, August 19th, 2015 - 27 comments
Unbelievable.
Written By: - Date published: 10:23 am, July 18th, 2015 - 139 comments
Jack Tame on Newstalk ZB has recently brought refreshingly realistic commentary on climate change. Meanwhile in the Herald climate change is thought to be a good thing because summers become warmer.
Written By: - Date published: 11:58 am, July 9th, 2015 - 20 comments
The Canterbury Rebuild grinds on with news that CERA is to be replaced by a new entity dubbed Regenerate Canterbury. But is a name change all that is required?
Written By: - Date published: 7:02 am, July 8th, 2015 - 48 comments
The emissions reduction target decided by the Nat government is an admission that we as a country don’t give a stuff about the future.
Written By: - Date published: 10:28 am, June 21st, 2015 - 37 comments
All the best to those affected by the latest round of flooding.
Written By: - Date published: 6:22 am, May 15th, 2015 - 46 comments
All the best to those coping with the wild weather or its aftermath. We’ll see lots of photos of floods and damage, but no discussion of the increasing risks of extreme weather.
Written By: - Date published: 8:43 pm, May 12th, 2015 - 1 comment
Nepal has been hammered again. Here’s how to donate.
Written By: - Date published: 8:06 am, May 11th, 2015 - 180 comments
A significant milestone has been passed.
Written By: - Date published: 9:37 am, April 26th, 2015 - 17 comments
As is all over the news this morning, Nepal and surrounding areas have been hit by a severe quake.
Written By: - Date published: 6:49 am, March 16th, 2015 - 5 comments
Vanuatu has been badly hit, with many dead, and significant damage. There is a Red Cross donations page here.
Written By: - Date published: 12:41 pm, February 22nd, 2015 - 42 comments
It will soon be four years to the minute since the most destructive and deadly Canterbury / Christchurch earthquake. Condolences to the friends and families of the dead. Greetings to all who lived through it and remember.
Written By: - Date published: 7:43 am, February 13th, 2015 - 37 comments
Drought has been declared for a huge region of the South Island. Weather extremes are going to be the new normal – why aren’t we adapting?
Written By: - Date published: 4:25 pm, February 4th, 2015 - 14 comments
Our thoughts are with Christchurch as a huge fire rages to the west of the city.
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