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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 50 by 2050. Public meetings on the Government's emissions target start today. Check out frogblog for more information about how you can…
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The US has finally managed to pass a bill through the house of representatives dealing with climate change (sort of). It is laden with pork-barrel initiatives because the congress members realised that they could treat carbon credits as a type of free-money boondoggle. It still…
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There are a few odd times that I wish I was living in Wellington instead of Auckland (not often).This is one of them. There is a lecture by one of the leading researchers looking at the geology of the West Antarctica ice sheet (WAIS) and…
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This is the latest YouTube clip from 350.org, the international movement planning a worldwide day of protest on October 24 to demand our political leaders negotiate a fair and effective global climate treaty. There are a few events listed in New Zealand but it doesn't…
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Six Degrees Could Change the World This is a documentary detailing the possible effects as temperatures rise throughout the world degree by degree. We are shown deserts spreading out across West/Central America (Stretching from Texas up into Canada) as rains fail to reach there. New…
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In east Antarctica, the sea ice sheets have been larger recently. Predictably this has been seized on by the scientifically simple-minded climate change deniers (CCD's) as evidence that climate change models are incorrect. This is despite it being predicted very closely by the same climate…
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I had the pleasure of meeting lauded climate activist and author Bill McKibben this morning. McKibben is in New Zealand as part of a tour encouraging action on climate change, in the lead up to the big UN climate talks in Copenhagen in December. He's…
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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 Day 2008: It seems an unlikely coincidence. [Hat tip: forgetaboutthelastone in the comments.]
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Robinsod is no longer here to do the book reviews of Wishart's latest insights into the world of the paranoid. As he said before pronouncing his severe disappointment with Wishart in his last book.. I had high hopes for Absolute Power, I really did. If…
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This fascinating article (with many links) describes some of the radical technologies America is considering to address the urgent problem of global warming. ... global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth's air ... One such extreme option…
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The future is starting to look decidedly sci fi. As the UN climate talks in Bonn draw to a close, developed countries have refused to forward an overall mid-term emissions reduction target ( the cuts they're willing to make collectively by 2020). Despite science telling…
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John Key's government is at the climate change talks in Bonn avoiding doing their part in combating more climate change in the future (along with Russia and the Ukraine). Meanwhile the British Antarctic Survey is reporting that the Wilkins ice shelf is likely to disappear…
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Take heed, for the Superpower has spoken. At Round One of this year's international climate change negotiations (in Bonn, Germany) the US has stolen the spotlight with a rousing opening address. President Barack Obama's envoy Todd Stern stressed the need for action and warned countries…
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Just when the Kiwi corporate kleptocracy was kicking into high gear to ensure that the taxpayer is properly stuck with the paying the whole of New Zealand's Kyoto carbon bill according to the time honoured ‘privatise the profit, socialize the loss' principle, the Labour /Green…
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Toad's post on coastal shipping deserves re-posting: Coastal shipping is the most energy efficient means of moving freight. A ship consumes 75 - 80 percent less fuel than a truck per tonne hauled. It's just got to be the way to go. The United States…
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We've been outed! By none other than Thelma (or was it Louise?) A promotional video for climate action, voiced by Susan Sarandon for Greenpeace in the US, holds New Zealand up as a beacon of hope on a sickly earth praising the former Labour Government's…
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The preliminary results of a drill by the ANDRILL (Antarctic Geological Drilling) were published in the print edition of Nature this week. It has shown a history of the previous retreat and collapses of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS). The WAIS melt with its…
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The Government is taking nearly half a billion dollars out of public transport, cycling, walking, road maintance, and traffic policing to pay for more state highways. Transport Minister Steven Joyce's reasoning for this - '86% of people go to work by car'. Doesn't he get…
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This morning I spotted a poignant example of the inequalities inherent in tackling climate change. The Maldives have announced they'll go carbon neutral by 2020. Newly elected President Mohamed Nasheed says his small archipelago nation will hereby spurn fossil fuels - opting instead for wind…
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Fancy a restful island holiday? If the Cateret Island was your chosen destination you might want to travel sooner rather than later according to CNN: There is one holiday destination that should shake the faith of even the most vehement climate change skeptic: the Carteret…
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The latest New Scientist brings together the work of thousands of scientists to describe what would happen to the world if the global temperature rises by 4 degrees, which is the mid-range for the projected increases due to climate change. Many of you will simply…
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I attended the Pacific Islands Forum in Fiji back in 2006. The shadow of Bainimarama's approaching coup hung over the forum but it wasn't enough to quell the heat as we sat in our ridiculously ill-suited suits through endless, pointless meetings. Nothing was achieved and…
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I'm always amazed about the level of sheer scientific ignorance of most of the climate change deniers. Characteristically ridiculous statements (and scientifically humorous) usually emit from them like CO2 emissions from a coal fired power station. For instance, Garth George in the NZ Herald on…
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Gerry 'sexy coal' Brownlee has spent today ripping apart more anti-climate change laws. Today, under urgency and without the opportunity for the public to contribute via the select committee process, National/ACT has repealed the Biofuels requirement and is now in the process of repealing the…
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Tourism New Zealand has recently launched its dedicated YouTube channel - Have Your Say - where tourists can post video messages about their experiences while visiting here via a mobile studio. Here's what our new PM, Minister of Tourism, and veteran YouTube user John Key had to say.…
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Have you heard the sad news that the EU may be next to join the international communist nanny-state conspiracy against incandescent bulbs? It seems EU bureaucrats have published a "report" which calls for a ban on the freedom-loving inefficient bulbs which have kept our planet…
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Rodney Hide on National and ACT's select committee into the ETS: "I am especially pleased to see that the issue of the scientific and trade implications will be considered alongside the impacts on the economy. "There is definitely not a monolithic view on the fact…
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In case, like me, you tend to mainly read the news online, here's what was stuck to the Dominion Post this morning: