Mass layoffs, layoff the boys.
There are always consequences to the type of mass unemployment that we’re starting to see in NZ at present. However there looks like […]
Environment
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Time to up the pressure on our leaders
Greenpeace executive director Kumi Naidoo makes the case that the failure of our leaders at Copenhagen means the time has come to intensify […]
Oh yeah, SPEEDholes
Could making the surface of cars rough be a cheap and esay way to boost fuel efficiency, thereby saving oil and helping tackle […]
Today’s climate protest in Wgtn
Two protests today successfully highlighted the role of New Zealand’s agricutural industry and business community in contributing to climate change. The first protest […]
Those hard to find WIMPs
There have been some new results from the search for WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) at the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) in […]
Climate Direct Action
Text from John Darroch a couple of minutes ago: hey just hanging ten stories up the mfat building in welly protesting against fonterror […]
Sustainable living resources
I’m trying not to get too depressed about the lack of an outcome at Copenhagen. As one analyst put it – “Leaders came […]
Failing the future
So Copenhagen has ended in failure. I’m not surprised, but I am disappointed. As The Guardian reports: Low targets, goals dropped: Copenhagen ends […]
A knife edge and an open letter
As the final stages of diplomatic chaos play out in Copenhagen, and with at least the possibility of some truly significant goals emerging, […]
Words and deeds
Words: Prime Minister John Key has urged the world’s major economies to listen to the voices of vulnerable nations facing climate change. .. […]
Copenhagen violence
Photograph: Christian Charisius/Reuters Earlier in the year there was a lot of media attention on the police tactics at the G20 Summit in […]
Bullet dodged
Well, that could have been embarrassing. John Key on the world stage, along with leaders of other countries in what has been billed […]
The Climate Scoreboard
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Worth 1000 words
Cartoon by Nick Anderson.
Why deny: the bought priesthood
There are some very wealthy industries that make their money off burning fossil fuels and emitting greenhouse gases. It is in their financial interest […]
Why deny: the useful idiots
According to myth (it seems), Lenin called socialists in the West ‘useful idiots’ – people whose ideological fervour saw them accidentally aid the […]
Sharples: ‘ETS short-sighted, that’s why we supported it’
I could hardly believe my ears when I heard Waatea News on RNZ this morning. Pita Sharples admitted that the Maori Party knew […]
US Style Cow Stalls – what aspiration!
In a year when New Zealand factory farming practices for pigs (and earlier for chickens) have been widely exposed and shocked the country, […]
Why deny: the lobby groups/polluters
This is the first in a three part series on the climate change denial industry. I’m trying to understand why there is such […]
Deniers are traitors
Strongly worded piece by Chris Trotter this morning: In the war for nature, the deniers are traitors … The question of why war, […]
Key obstructs Copenhagen talks
Thanks to our dear Prime Minister John Key, New Zealand is being branded an international ‘fossil’ on climate change. Stuff.co.nz reports Prime Minister […]
Call of the week
Fitzsimons: If Barack Obama comes to Copenhagen saying ‘yes we can do much more’ will the Prime Minister say ‘no we can’t, but […]
This is climate change
Climate change has melted the sea ice where polar bears catch seals. Starving, they are turning to cannibalism. Here a male bear takes the remains […]
Players only love you when they’re playing
O’Sullivan“[Key] indicated that one of the reasons why he had been loath to sign up earlier for the Copenhagen event was because it […]
The Copenhagen editorial
Yesterday 56 newspapers in 45 countries published a “global editorial” – the same joint statement – most of them on their front page. […]
Key is going. Now who pays?
So John Key has finally dropped his veils* and is going to Copenhagen. Well, Rob Emmerson correctly predicted how the ineffectual Emissions Trading […]
Ethical meat on its way
Jon Stewart covers developments in the science around making meat without raising and killing an animal. Jon has a laugh of course but […]
The Key to change?
Will Key go to Copenhagen? Or rather, why wouldn’t he want to go? According to TVNZ tonight: At least 90 world leaders are […]
No amateur hour for real leaders
Among the breathless reporting of who John Key is having a meeting with (‘he’s talking to the Queen!’ ‘he’s going to talk to […]
Everybody else is going, so why can’t we?
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon have called on world leaders to attend the Copenhagen talks on the new climate […]
Key must bite the bullet over Copenhagen
Another instalment of “John Key’s” video diary from talented impersonator PlumedeKiwi; this time taking a comedic stab at the PM’s refusal to attend […]
The evidence on warming
Much ado about nothing in the last few days, with the release of materials related to climate change and warming on both the […]
Shame on you
Never in the history of New Zealand politics has so much taxpayers’ money been hurled into the chasm with such contempt for the […]
Sharples and the Maori Party revolt
Via Newsroom [offline], Pita Sharples has confirmed reports of an internal revolt within the Maori Party over its support for National’s ETS. The […]
Rod Oram on ETS and Monetary Policy
Rod Oram did a business segment on Nine to Noon yesterday. As usual he went quite deep into the issues. A welcome contrast […]
