Thank you Charlie.
I took myself along to Dunedin’s March for Science last Saturday. There was a high point.
science
global warming
David Cunliffe’s final speech
The text of David Cunliffe’s final speech delivered to the New Lynn Labour Party earlier this week where he decries neoliberalism and worries about the world’s environmental future.
Stormy weather in the North
You’d have to say that an Easter cyclone is one of those truly awful scenarios for Auckland. Forget the water. What happens when the Harbour Bridge and the Airport probably close? It is going to be a hell of an Easter on the roads and travelling. More extreme weather brought to you from climate change.
Climate change, political heroes, political culture
How ironic that Parliament is to debate climate change today, as the latest in a torrent of warming-fueled extreme weather events bears down on the country, and as the government charges Russel Norman and the other heroes trying to end oil exploration in NZ waters.
Weather warnings – be prepared
Newshub: “MetService warns Cyclone Cook will be the worst to hit NZ since 1968, people advised to stock up on food and water”
Greenpeace’s Taitu confronts oil exploration ship
Thank you Greenpeace, and specifically thank you Russel Norman and the crew of the Taitu, for taking to the seas to fight this little battle in the most important struggle of our age.
Perhaps climate change will go away if we ignore it?
That seems to be Bill English’s position.
Thoughts are with Edgecumbe
Photo from the Whakatane Beacon.
Right-wing American stupidity is now a global crisis
The Trump regime has begun the process of dismantling environmental protections in America, including those designed to limit carbon emissions / climate change.
Oil prospecting on the shores of Lake Te Anau?
The Nats are buying another fight with NZ’s nature lovers. Last time they tried something like this 50,000 marched in Auckland and they were forced to back down.
Greenpeace protesting oil conference in New Plymouth
Greenpeace protestors are blockading an oil conference in New Plymouth. “If we’re to have a future, oil can have no future.”
Climate Change and Us
3 major environmental reports today – the OECD says our economy is beyond environmental limits; a cross party group of MPs sponsor research into the way to net zero emissions; and the World Meteorological Organisation has a stark look at continued climate change.
Climate change, weather bombs, and the infrastructure that we need
The effects of climate change are here, now, playing out in the flooded north. We should be preparing, we should be hardening critical infrastructure like Auckland’s fresh water supply. Instead of building – you know – more roads.
TOP climate change policy
Morgan’s TOP climate change policy is out, and it commits to “net zero carbon emissions by 2050”. There’s lots to like…
Fires are the new normal
Hey Bill English, it’s not the case that “no one could have anticipated the large-scale fire on the Port Hills”. Just about every relevant organisation could and did predict it. Most of the other predictions relating to climate change will come true too.
Kia Kaha Canterbury
It seems almost inevitable that the recent fires in Canterbury and the Hawkes Bay are the result of climate change and the harbingers of things to come.
Power Up!
Some moment in time will be that moment in time when reality’s faced; when both actions and words accord with it. That moment might as well be this moment as opposed to any other.
100 Coal Fired Projects Scrapped.
…including some already in the construction phase.
2016 hottest year – NIWA live stream
As long predicted and widely reported, 2016 has been confirmed as the hottest year ever. Watch the NIWA stream on the situation in NZ, live at 11am.
Positive
This is a difficult concept for the left to address in election year in New Zealand but it’s possible to be positive about 2017.
Living without our fridge – 4-6C hotter
My first degree about 35 years ago was in earth sciences. And one of my lifelong passions has been reading the history, prehistory, and evolutionary history of humans. The timescales give me an appreciation of the farcical attempts of humans to stop crapping in our narrow evolutionary space over the last century. We’re going to live in a hot hot world we weren’t evolved for.
Keep it in the ground
In the last days of the Obama presidency the current President is taking steps to protect the Arctic from oil drilling.
The great US climate scientist witch hunt
Donald Trump’s transition team have been quizzing state employees of the Department of Energy about their beliefs and activities in relation to climate change. Is a clear out of those who believe climate change is a reality possible? And why is he refusing to investigate the possibility that Russia affected the Presidential election in his favour?
Military assessment of climate change
Guardian: “Unchecked global warming is greatest threat to 21st-century security where mass migration could be ‘new normal’, say senior military”.
Earthquakes v Climate Change
Have the recent earthquakes and the likely political response altered the emphasis that will being given to addressing climate change?
More fossil awards for NZ
With two more Fossil awards to add to its collection, New Zealand is called out yet again for its lack of action on climate change.
As politicians go….
Following voters in the USA adding yet another to a growing list of defeats for the radical centre….
The hottest year
As 2016 lines up for its place in the record books – what if every year from now is the hottest year ever?
Paris agreement in force – now what?
The Paris agreement is now in force. NZ is committed to reducing its emissions. What, specifically, is this governments plan for doing so? How does support for continued coal mining and oil exploration, the use of phony carbon credits and the like, fit in with reducing emissions?
Morgan Foundation on Nats’ planned climate cheat
A useful report from the Morgan Foundation: “…the Government has a plan to cook the books to cover up our growing greenhouse gas emissions.”
Marine reserves and marine disasters
Credit where it is due for the success of the Ross Sea marine reserve. Now how about action where it is needed in our own waters?
Tory MP resigns on point of principle
No, not in NZ, of course. With bonus notes on a “grotesque folly”.
Peak Oil Demand
A decade ago peak oil, or the capping of supply was thought to be an imminent problem. Now it is looking more likely that demand will peak, and soon.
Why we need to stand with Standing Rock
For seven months the next movement of social and environmental justice and resistance has been growing. We should be paying attention.
When the levee breaks…
Bar the ear-worm, nothing to do with Led Zeppelin.
Big Oil in plain packaging
Big Tobacco was hit this week in New Zealand after Parliament passed laws requiring smokes to be sold in plain packaging. The science about the health threats posed by smoking is settled, as is the science over climate change. When can we expect laws being passed against the oil companies?