Anyone remember South Australia’s Great Big Green Battery? The one they paid Elon Musk a cool $90 million to build? Spoiler alert: It doesn’t work. South Australia’s big Tesla battery is being sued for allegedly failing to live up to its promises to help rescue the power
John Maunder Some of the answers to the complexities of the climate system are given in my recently published book “Fifteen shades of climate… the fall of the weather dice and the butterfly effect”. The following are extracts are from pages 10-14, and page 15. The following was published on
Angus Aardvark Computer modelling is very useful: I developed models and used them for many years of commercial prediction work. They are a really powerful tool. But ONLY if you have plenty of feedback and constantly update the model so it can tweak itself to match the real world. Essentially
I was vaguely acquainted with Tim Flannery in his uni days. I even accompanied him on a fossil dig. What was noticeable, even then, is that while he’s a nice enough fellow, he’s also prone to, shall we say, wacky ideas. Back then, Flannery was all hot for
The Prime Minister’s announcement today that she will provide Climate Change Minister James Shaw and his nine officials special allocation in MIQ on return from COP26 in Glasgow doesn’t square with the rules other Kiwis have to play by, says National’s spokesperson for Climate Change Stuart Smith.
The BFD transcript Newstalk ZB Tuesday 21 September Kate Hawkesby speaks to Stuart Smith, National’s Spokesperson for Climate Change Kate: Climate Change Minister James Shaw is wanting to take nine other people with him from Wellington to this year’s climate change talks in Glasgow. Dubbed COP26, it will
David Seymour ACT Leader Captain Planet James Shaw is taking 14 officials to Glasgow with him, the first XV of climate change. Despite COVID-19 being out of control in Glasgow, Shaw has decided to dive in boots and all. This is not the first time the squad has gone on
If James Shaw was giving consolation gifts to Kiwis desperately trying to get home this Christmas he’d likely give them a lump of coal, having confirmed he plans to take 14 staff with him to the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, National’s Climate Change spokesperson Stuart Smith says.
It’s not for nothing that the Royal Society’s motto is Nullius in Verba. “Take no one’s word for it.” Sadly, the Society itself rarely lives up to that motto any more, having long ago traded scepticism for right-on gullibility. Especially when it comes to climate change. Yet
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Climate Change Minister James Shaw stating that the Emissions Reduction Plan is to be aligned with Budget 2022 is just more hot air, says National’s Climate Change spokesperson Stuart Smith. “James Shaw is making a habit of missing his own deadlines on climate change. “New Zealand has seen the
John Maunder Some of the answers to the complexities of the climate system are given in my recently published book “Fifteen shades of climate… the fall of the weather dice and the butterfly effect”. The following are extracts are from pages 5-9. Weather dice were shown on the cover of
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Green Party co-leader James Shaw has been under fire for planning to fly to Glasgow for a climate change conference with an unspecified number of support staff. Priding ourselves on fairness towards New Zealand’s elected representatives, the Taxpayers’ Union offered Mr Shaw the opportunity to present his defence. It
Douglas Elliffe Lindsay Matthews University of Auckland Douglas Elliffe is a former Head of Psychology and Deputy Dean of Science at the University of Auckland Lindsay Matthews is a Honorary Academic in the Psychology Department at the University of Auckland Can we toilet train cattle? Would we want to? The
