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Not all ETSs are created equal
On his blog, Colin Espiner writes: "it's also extremely ironic to hear Labour wringing its hands about the impact of the ETS when...HELLO...Labour passed the Emissions Trading Scheme!!!" Oh dear. That's like saying 'Labour is opposed to National's ACC policy but Labour had an ACC…
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CCDs. Worms perhaps?
It has been fascinating over the last few days watching the CCDs (Climate Change Deniers) make an another attempt to scale the bastion of scientific thinking and language. In this case someone hacked a copy of decade of e-mails at the Climate Research Unit (CRU)…
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A plague on both your houses
So, as far as National and Maori leaders are concerned, it's a done deal: "Maori Party to support ETS - bill to become law in days". Unless (as suggested by Eddie) some Maori Party MPs remember their principles and vote against it, National's ETS will…
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Harawira and Katene to cross the floor?
National wants to get its shambolic ETS through the House this week. It's not quite clear what the hurry is; there's no actual reason why it should be passed before the Copenhagen meeting in December, it's just an artificial deadline that National have set themselves.…
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Lunch time quiz
1) What the hell is John Key trying to say here? "Maori are not getting special preference, if you go back to those pre-1990 forests Maori are significant owners in that area, so is Ngai Tahu, those forests are all affected by the emissions trading…
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Doctors speak up against ETS
A couple of days ago I raised (again) the question of why we don't see more experts, scientists and academics contributing to public debate. Well here's one example where they are doing so: Docs say emissions trading scheme will hurt Kids Senior doctors today said…
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Greenpeace to focus on poverty
The new head of Greenpeace, South African Kumi Naidoo, has pledged under his leadership that the organisation's core focus will be the effect of climate change on the world's poorest people. This is great news. I have always been critical of the way many (really…
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Maori Party shafts Maori workers
The Maori Party says it will support John Key's emissions trading scheme in exchange for a lucrative deal for the wealthiest Maori. According to TV3: Five of New Zealand's richest iwi, who have already signed multi-million-dollar treaty settlements, will gain millions more in the deal.…
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Key’s $155b subsidy to polluters
A month ago, I wrote that National's moves to gut the Emissions Trading Scheme would increase government debt by $73 billion by 2050. A Treasury report said that National's ETS changes to subsidise polluters would see government debt 6-8% of GDP higher than it otherwise would be.…
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Kiwis will continue to subsidise PM’s rich mates
The Finance and Expenditure Committee has released its report on John Key's Emissions Trading Scheme. ACT, Labour, and the Greens refused to support the changes which will see taxpayers subsidising big business. We were unable to reach agreement on whether to recommend that the Climate…
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Climate Change cowardice hurting NZ’s image abroad
One of the UK's most influential newspapers, The Guardian, carries a stinging attack under the title New Zealand was a friend to Middle Earth, but it's no friend of the earth. It damns us for our abject failure to live up to the clean, green…
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Climate Change: The Looney Lord Responds
Rob Salmond The other day I posted a critique of Lord Monckton's recent presentation, which purports to show that global warming is not real and not a problem. Imagine my astonishment to see that Lord Monckton himself took 2,700 words to respond to me in…
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Climate Change: Looney Tunes from Lord Monckton
Rob Salmond In attempting to cover for DPF's embarrassing disaster of a post on climate change, in his comments section some prominent right wingers (most notably John Ansell) pointed to a recent presentation by Lord Monckton. The presentation got a lot of publicity this month, including…
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Shamed by Africa
On Monday climate change negotiations got under way in Barcelona - "the final chance for negotiators to hammer out a text before December's Copenhagen summit". It seems that these vital talks may have failed already. Geoff Keey reports: It's been a dramatic first…
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Kiwis should be free-riders – NZIER
A nice attempt at wedge politics from rightwing economic think-tank NZIER today. They say we should be concentrating on water quality, air quality, and saving native species, rather than climate change - a transparent attempt to divide conservationists from environmentalists. The entire substance of this…
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David Farrar’s echo chamber fail
There's some massive FAIL going on over at Kiwiblog. Farrar's got this new green-bashing post up where he breathlessly mocks Al Gore for saying sea levels could rise by 67 metres because of climate change. "67 metres in ten years!" wails Farrar. "I think politicians…
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Send Nats to Scandinavia
Want to send some Nats to Scandinavia? Me too! The one above should be self explanatory. Support Sign On and send John on his way. But while we're at it let's send Steven Joyce to Finland! He's making such a mess of National's broadband plans.…
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350 Day of Action – Saturday
Scientists say that 350 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere is the safe limit for humanity. We're above that limit and we're climbing fast. 350 Aotearoa is the New Zealand arm of 350.org, an international campaign dedicated to creating an equitable global climate treaty that…
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Smith out-does Tolley as most incompetent minister
While we're all aghast over Nick Smith's shambolic handling of ACC and his 'people are killing themselves for cash' comments, let's not forget he's also making a total botch up of climate change policy too. As Marty discovered, National's ETS will cost us $73 billion…
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March for action on climate change
Let's have a good turn out. Incidentally, with 1,700 workers at Justice joining 140 of their Parliamentary Service comrades in industrial action as they try to win a meager cost of living pay adjustment, and more departments soon to join them, Parliament's front lawn could…
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National’s subsidies for polluters to cost $73 billion
A newly released government paper shows that by 2050 government debt will be $54-$73 billion higher than it otherwise would be due to National's subsidies for carbon polluters. According to the paper: Treasury has modelled these costs [the free allocations to polluters] and, while the…
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Sausages with Darby
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Too late 3
I know I'm banging on about it this week, but it's rather an important topic! This clip from Wake Up Freak Out is an accessible introduction to the science of the tipping points that are going to accelerate climate change. As the title of my…
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Too late 2
From Inter Press: Climate Change: Food Supply Hangs in the Balance Uxbridge, Canada - Rocketing food prices and hundreds of millions more starving people will be part of humanity's grim future without concerted action on climate change and new investments in agriculture, experts reported this…
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Climatic catastrophe lolz
hat-tip Sam Vilain in comments
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Too late
From The Guardian: Arctic seas turn to acid, putting vital food chain at risk With the world's oceans absorbing six million tonnes of carbon a day, a leading oceanographer warns of eco disaster Carbon-dioxide emissions are turning the waters of the Arctic Ocean into acid…
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Up in smoke
When the Tui oil-field was opened last year, the operators (AWE New Zealand, 87.5% foreign-owned, ironically) were given permission to burn off 10 billion cubic feet of natural gas retrieved incidentally to the oil over the life of the oil-field. That's actually a hell of…
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McGovernment
This increasingly ramshackle government continues to astound. They've basically done nothing in a year when the country has been dealing with the worst economic crisis in decades. When they have tried to tackle big issues, the result has been incompetent policy produced entirely for political reasons - framed as…
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Image-ination: postcards to the planet
Have you heard of the 10:10 campaign in the UK? It aims to inspire individuals, businesses and organisations to commit to cutting their own emissions by 10% in 2010. A range of artists are donating work to be auctioned in support of the campaign, with…