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Captain Planet and the First VX

Captain Planet and the First VX

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

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Shaw to Have 14 Staff in Glasgow for Climate Talks

Shaw to Have 14 Staff in Glasgow for Climate Talks

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.

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There Is No ‘Code Red’ in IPCC 6

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.

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Climate Excuses Just More Hot Air

Climate Excuses Just More Hot Air

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

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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

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

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James Shaw’s Feeble Excuses Exposed by Truth

James Shaw’s Feeble Excuses Exposed by Truth

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.

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BBC Heresy! ‘Climate Change Isn’t All Bad’

BBC Heresy! ‘Climate Change Isn’t All Bad’

In a time of universal deceit about climate change, telling the truth is not just a revolutionary, but a positively heretical act. Just ask, say, Bjorn Lomborg or Judith Curry. Even speaking from personal experience, nothing induces pure, spitting rage in a climate botherer so much as calmly reciting facts

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How Climate Change Saves Lives

How Climate Change Saves Lives

In Douglas Adams’s Life, the Universe, and Everything, a spaceship is mistaken for a star moving across the heavens, and taken for a sign by the people below. As is anything and everything. When the rains came, it was a sign. When the rains departed, it was a sign.

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The Charge of the Smug Brigade

The Charge of the Smug Brigade

With many devices rushing to connect to the IoT (Internet of Things), security does not seem to get a high priority before roll-out. Later on, the third-party security experts poke around and expose the vulnerabilities and the suppliers rush to slap Band-Aids over their poor programming. A

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9/11 and the Age of Panic

9/11 and the Age of Panic

It’s sobering to realise that my own children, now in their 20s, have lived with the “War on Terror” as the background to their entire lives. They can barely remember 9/11, of course; they were toddlers, playing, oblivious to the telly on which those shocking images transfixed the

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James Shaw Shows Staggering Hypocrisy

James Shaw Shows Staggering Hypocrisy

David Seymour ACT Leader Just last week Greens co-leader James Shaw said Parliament sitting was “putting lives at risk” by sitting in Level 4, and yet this week he’s prepared to fly to the COVID hot spot of Glasgow for climate talks. “James Shaw jumped on his moral

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Hypocrite of the Day

Hypocrite of the Day

James Shaw flees an unsafe Parliament where lives are being put at risk to Covid hotspot Glasgow for a climate change conference. pic.twitter.com/uEfYtMb5qX — David Seymour (@dbseymour) September 9, 2021

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