Subsidizing polluting industries costs taxpayers directly
An excellent post from Idiot Savant (reproduced with permission) on the cost to taxpayers of subsidizing polluting industries. I haven’t noticed the mainstream […]
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Punching below our weight
I’m proud to be a Kiwi, and I’ve always enjoyed celebrating the successes of our tiny country. It’s not often that I feel […]
The cost of doing nothing
The climate change debate is over (apart from a few luntatics of course). The debate is now about what to do, and the […]
New Zealand’s global shame
Well, there goes our clean, green image. After Key announced the pathetic 10-20% emissions reduction target, we were declared ‘fossil of the day’ […]
NZ’s credibility melts away
As a recent article in the Guardian newspaper asked: “Can art succeed where science is proving insufficient to generate the will to act […]
Now for the spin
It’s interesting to see how National’s spin doctors are trying to frame the Government’s pathetic and shameful emissions reduction target of 10-20% by […]
Unambitious for New Zealand
If ever there were a sentence that summed up our collective folly it’s “Scientific opinion is that a reduction of 40 per cent […]
Save the climate, raise our albedo
Dark material gets warmer in sunlight than light-coloured or white material. Heat energy enters our atmosphere after light strikes the surface of the […]
John Key ‘may’ be able to understand it?
John Key has recently acted like a jerk to a young mother worried about what climate change is going to mean for her […]
Greens show the way forward
The Greens have presented a sensible and feasible plan to reduce our greenhouse emissions to 40% less than 1990 levels by 2020. Contrary […]
Flogging our future
Hot Topic has very interesting post up about how Act took a sudden interest in climate change denial after they received $100k from […]
John beats up on young Mum
Seems John Key’s been name-dropping Kiwi film stars to business leaders in Brizzie. In today’s NZ Herald Key is quoted slamming actress Keisha […]
Key: Don’t join the conversation
By telling Keisha Castle-Hughes she should “stick to acting” and keep out of the climate change debate, Prime Minister John Key is signalling […]
Nick Smith lying with numbers.
Nick Smith is the front-man for this government on climate change, and it appears that he knows absolutely nothing about the numbers. The […]
Govt opts for weak climate change target
As expected, the Key Government has decided not to listen to the scientists on climate change. Rather than the 40% reduction in emissions […]
Wobbling boobs distract Darby from Global Warning
Just saw this…pretty good. Didn’t realise Darby was another Signer Oner. Nice to see a bit of humour injected into something as grim […]
No more excuses, time to act
Greenpeace and others are campaigning for the Government to agree to a target of 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by […]
DL Wgtn this Thursday
Short notice, but just got this in from the Drinking Liberally Wellington crew: This week Drinking Liberally is hosting Geoff Keey from Greenpeace. […]
Oil company backs Greenpeace
Who’d have thought? An oil company coming out on the side of New Zealand’s biggest environmental organisation over emission reduction targets. Gull says […]
Greenpeace to Obama: Show some leadership
From Greenpeace USA: Greenpeace climbers hung a banner on Mount Rushmore challenging President Obama to show real leadership on global warming. The banner […]
Unassailable Evidence
Inaugural Lectures are very traditional University events; held these days to permit outstanding researchers to present an overview of their work to the […]
40 by 2020
Great new video from 350.org.nz calling on the Government to back a 40% reduction in emissions by 2020. Current National Party policy is […]
Climate change, passing the pain.
The US has finally managed to pass a bill through the house of representatives dealing with climate change (sort of). It is laden […]
A lecture on the WAIS
There are a few odd times that I wish I was living in Wellington instead of Auckland (not often).This is one of them. […]
350.org
This is the latest YouTube clip from 350.org, the international movement planning a worldwide day of protest on October 24 to demand our […]
Cataclysm
Six Degrees Could Change the World This is a documentary detailing the possible effects as temperatures rise throughout the world degree by degree. […]
The legitimacy of distraction
A cold weekend afternoon. Perfect timing for a distracting article on Twitter, Adderall, lifehacking, mindful jogging, power browsing, Obama’s BlackBerry, and the benefits […]
NACT: Going backwards for politics
The Fast Forward Fund was axed by the NACT government in Feburary. This was a fund that was to be invested and the […]
CCD Myths – East Antarctica
In east Antarctica, the sea ice sheets have been larger recently. Predictably this has been seized on by the scientifically simple-minded climate change […]
Retrograde NZ
I had the pleasure of meeting lauded climate activist and author Bill McKibben this morning. McKibben is in New Zealand as part of […]
Coincidence?
Here’s the cover of Ian Wishart’s latest piece of scientifically illiterate climate change denialism, Air Con: And here’s the poster for World Fair Trade […]
Book review of the insane
Robinsod is no longer here to do the book reviews of Wishart‘s latest insights into the world of the paranoid. As he said […]
Imagine.
Inspired by a forwarded e-mail about Obama’s speech to the NAS with this line in it Imagine Key committing to invest 3% of […]
How did we miss the sweet spot?
This fascinating article (with many links) describes some of the radical technologies America is considering to address the urgent problem of global warming. […]
Burn baby burn
The future is starting to look decidedly sci fi. As the UN climate talks in Bonn draw to a close, developed countries have […]
Key paralytic as ice melts
John Key’s government is at the climate change talks in Bonn avoiding doing their part in combating more climate change in the future […]