Written By: - Date published: 8:43 am, September 9th, 2018 - 26 comments
It is high time we wean ourselves off the indiscriminate use of fossil fuels. We need to grow up.
Written By: - Date published: 4:09 pm, September 8th, 2018 - 79 comments
I stumbled across two protests in Dunedin today. They offered up a few telling contrasts.
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, September 8th, 2018 - 85 comments
Leighton Smith is living for the day when it is proved that climate change is nothing more than a lefty hoax. I hope he is right.
Written By: - Date published: 8:57 am, September 3rd, 2018 - 151 comments
David Farrar has posted a guest post by climate change denialist Bryan Leland where he has criticised the Royal Society of New Zealand for accepting that climate change is an actual phenomenon.
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, August 28th, 2018 - 16 comments
Norway’s recycling policies are that good that it is in serious need of more rubbish.
Written By: - Date published: 3:21 am, August 27th, 2018 - 7 comments
On Friday 27 July 2018, Wellington Tramways Union Vice President Chris Morley passed away after a short battle with Cancer, aged 62. Chris had been a Wellington bus driver since 1978, when public transport in the city was run and controlled by Wellington City Council. In 2008 I was privileged to be elected to the Tramways Union […]
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, August 25th, 2018 - 37 comments
What are the implications for New Zealand’s climate change policies of Australia’s change of Prime Minister?
Written By: - Date published: 7:20 pm, August 20th, 2018 - 139 comments
What’s the point of the Green party? Do we really need them? Really?
Written By: - Date published: 11:00 am, August 20th, 2018 - 44 comments
Julie Anne Genter outdid Jacinda Ardern’s trip to hospital in her private car by riding to hospital to be induced on her bike.
Written By: - Date published: 7:54 am, August 20th, 2018 - 87 comments
Malcolm Turnbull’s days as Australian Prime Minister may be numbered with suggestions that Peter Dutton has the numbers to win a leadership contest.
Written By: - Date published: 2:35 pm, August 17th, 2018 - 26 comments
With the change in Government and ever increasing costs of construction it appears that the Waimea dam project in Tasman District is going to be scuppered.
Written By: - Date published: 10:37 am, August 14th, 2018 - 138 comments
How does humanity prepare for the realisation that humans only have perhaps fifty years left?
Written By: - Date published: 10:37 am, August 14th, 2018 - 64 comments
GUEST POST:
Is Radio NZ meeting its obligations to report the news of the world fairly or is it just once over lightly at the public broadcaster? Some thoughts from regular TS contributor Adrian Thornton.
Written By: - Date published: 9:12 am, August 11th, 2018 - 139 comments
…in a single graph.
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, August 10th, 2018 - 78 comments
New Zealand seriously needs a water regulator. Something that will show that each catchment can withstand having that much taken out of it, and that it is being sold for a fair price, and ensures everyone has access to beautiful-quality water.
Written By: - Date published: 9:22 am, August 8th, 2018 - 37 comments
With the world facing environmental, economic and social crises now more than ever before is a time for strong international institutions.
Written By: - Date published: 7:46 am, August 7th, 2018 - 26 comments
Rookie National MP Dan Bidois has chosen to get up early and count the number of cars using Northcote’s T3 traffic lane.
Written By: - Date published: 11:51 am, August 5th, 2018 - 10 comments
A post about the jet stream and heatwaves.
Written By: - Date published: 1:24 pm, July 26th, 2018 - 12 comments
Not everything can be attributed to climate change. But we’re in for a bit of a hit.
Written By: - Date published: 9:12 am, July 18th, 2018 - 77 comments
Mike Hosking appears to have entered into a particularly dark time.
Written By: - Date published: 11:53 am, July 14th, 2018 - 49 comments
A post puzzling over our collective state of mind in the face of incredible danger and suggesting the only course of action we can take. Covering our eyes and blocking our ears isn’t it.
Written By: - Date published: 6:15 am, July 13th, 2018 - 59 comments
Ironsands Offshore Mining Ltd allowed to drill and extract bulk samples from the West Coast North Island Marine Mammal Sanctuary
Written By: - Date published: 5:21 pm, July 8th, 2018 - 10 comments
I don’t pay much attention to news channels these days, and realise this will have been all over the place in the shape of headlines and lead stories. So I’m sorry for simply echoing that which is already being amplified, but hey…
Written By: - Date published: 9:02 am, July 2nd, 2018 - 25 comments
Truck drivers are being to told to refuel outside of the Auckland regional fuel tax. Hopefully this will also mean that more of the excessively subsidised road destroying heavy vehicles will stay outside of our precious Auckland roads. But raising the Road User Charges in accordance to the general 4th power law would be more direct and have a better economic effect.
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, June 30th, 2018 - 57 comments
Not all the current government’s fault, but the arrival of the fuel tax this weekend heralds a number of very sharp rises in what we have to pay in order to run a car.
Written By: - Date published: 9:06 am, June 25th, 2018 - 88 comments
The Ministry for the Environment has released a discussion paper on a Zero Carbon Bill. But one proposal is to exempt methane which would mean that effectively half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gasses would not be subject to limitation.
Written By: - Date published: 6:02 am, June 22nd, 2018 - 50 comments
Or a conscientious objection to any War on Climate Change, or War on Global Warming.
Written By: - Date published: 8:04 am, June 19th, 2018 - 54 comments
Mike Hosking created an online poll which he must have thought would show opposition to cycleways but which has indicated that cycleways are very popular with Aucklanders.
Written By: - Date published: 6:02 am, June 19th, 2018 - 113 comments
Take a look around the room you’re in. Or if you’re out and about and reading this on some mobile device, then take a look around the next room you enter. Closely.
Written By: - Date published: 10:09 am, June 18th, 2018 - 94 comments
Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage has incurred attacks from the right by refusing to allow the desecration of conservation land on the West Coast.
Written By: - Date published: 10:06 am, June 17th, 2018 - 94 comments
National has cautiously pledged to support the Government’s proposed Climate Change Commission. But is it looking for opportunities to delay or weaken urgent action that New Zealand needs to be taking now rather than signing up for urgent action being started now?
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