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Greta Thunberg Is Right

Greta Thunberg Is Right

Greta Thunberg is right. Yes, I actually wrote that with a straight face. Of course, even a stopped clock is right twice a day, and Thunberg’s clock is not just busted, it’s being wildly wound back and forth by its handlers. Even when she’s right, she’s

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Green Theory Trumps Real-World Bushfire Experience

Green Theory Trumps Real-World Bushfire Experience

We all know that academia has long since become little more than a taxpayer-funded circle-jerk for people who’d rather collect PhDs than actually work for a living in the real world. To some extent we could live with that: if only the onanistic eggheads kept their furious masturbation to

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Morrison Tries an Each Way Bet on Emissions Policy

Morrison Tries an Each Way Bet on Emissions Policy

Remember when Scott Morrison shocked the green-left by bringing a lump of coal into parliament? Whatever happened to that guy? Coalition voters would gladly trade Scott Morrison the climate warrior for the woeful Scotty from Marketing they ended up with: continually spooked into submission on every woke issue. Especially climate

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Attack of the Nuclear Moonbat!

Attack of the Nuclear Moonbat!

It’s a weird but pleasing experience to find myself in agreement with someone whose views I generally detest. It’s even weirder and more pleasant to find an environmentalist actually saying something sensible for once. It’s triply weird when it’s a Guardian columnist. George Monbiot didn’t

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Which Is Better for the Environment, the Train or the Car?

Which Is Better for the Environment, the Train or the Car?

Our government has a policy that they are not investing in new roads much anymore because they want people to switch to public transport, walking or cycling instead.  This is part of their stated intent to obey the dictates of the IPCC and reduce our CO2 emissions. Prior to the

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Not-So-Noble Prize for Flannery

Not-So-Noble Prize for Flannery

Perhaps Tim Flannery really is one of Australia’s most accomplished scientists. After all, it’s not many people whose name gets made into a vernacular verb, but an increasing number of Australians have taken to remarking that “It’s really Flannerying down”, when the weather turns wet. A “Flannery”

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woman standing on gray soil

Bigtime Wakeup Call

Owen Jennings I remember my father talking of surviving during the great 1929 depression. Meals consisted of what they could grow – often a carrot, a spud and an onion. No credit at the local shop. No new clothes, no car, homemade everything. People knocking on doors asking for food and

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Another Day, Another Garbage Climate Study

Another Day, Another Garbage Climate Study

If the climate change and Wuhan pandemic debacles have taught us anything, it’s that computer modelling is garbage. Shiny, high-tech garbage, but garbage still. Climate models have consistently failed to match the real-world – and they’re getting worse. Pandemic modelling is an embarrassing farce that regularly exaggerates real-world events

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Global Cooling? I Want My Money Back

Global Cooling? I Want My Money Back

I have to say, I’m a little disappointed: it’s hardly been the apocalypse I was led to expect. For decades I’ve been told to accept it as a the most solemn scientific truth that we were on a short, steep slide into a hellish world of climate

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Time Extension Needed for Climate Change Report

Time Extension Needed for Climate Change Report

National has written to Climate Change Minister James Shaw calling for him to extend the report-back time on the Climate Change Commission Report, National’s Climate Change spokesperson Stuart Smith says. “We all want an Emissions Reduction Plan that addresses the environmental challenges we face in New Zealand, but in

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Coal Boiler Ban Is Virtue Signalling

Coal Boiler Ban Is Virtue Signalling

ACT Party ACT’s Environment Spokesperson Simon Court. “The Government’s ban on coal-fired boilers won’t stop one gram of emissions because the Emissions Trading Scheme already sets a hard cap,” says ACT’s Environment Spokesperson Simon Court. “This idea is nothing more than virtue signalling and it shows

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Government Jumping the Gun on Climate Change Plan

Government Jumping the Gun on Climate Change Plan

The Government has jumped the gun by announcing a ban on new coal-fired boilers ahead of the independent Climate Change Commission announcing its emissions reduction plan. National’s Climate Change spokesperson Stuart Smith says today’s announcement is way out in front of the process that was established to have

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Tauranga March Average Afternoon Temperatures 1913-2021

Tauranga March Average Afternoon Temperatures 1913-2021

John Maunder sunlive.co.nz Temperatures have been recorded in the Tauranga area at several sites during the last 107 years including the current Tauranga Airport site from June 1990. The graph shows details of the average daily maximum temperatures, called simply ‘afternoon’, for Tauranga for the months of March

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