One of the most comforting aspects of The Climate Change Commission’s latest report describing the roadmap towards making NZ carbon-free is that it has been left to Ardern’s government to implement. And as we all know, when Ardern makes a statement like “The Government will not hold back”
It seems the direction the country is going will be determined by the Climate Commission, not least in reference to the name of our island group where in their ridiculous report, released this week, we are referred to as Aotearoa 435 times in its 188 pages–yes, you read that
What we are faced with is not just mindless, irresponsible scaremongering from poseurs in and around Wellington’s Beehive for their nefarious political ends; now we have it in Auckland in what was once hailed as the nation’s No 1 daily newspaper, the New Zealand Herald. There was a
Robin Grieve Chairman F.A.R.M. ‘The Climate Commission’s recommendation to reduce livestock numbers by 15% by 2030 is not sensible, practical or justified,’ Robin Grieve, chairman of FARM (Facts About Ruminant Methane) said yesterday. Reducing livestock numbers will invariably cost New Zealand export income, and mean that
Stuff applauds Jacinda Ardern and Joe Biden’s declaration of a climate change crisis while feigning, as Ardern and Biden do, their commitment to welcoming “diverse opinions” and practising “openness and transparency”. They lie. Their minds are made up. They believe that man-made climate change will destroy the planet unless
“Give us a child till he’s seven and we’ll have him for life,” is a maxim attributed to everyone from Aristotle to the Jesuits, but throughout history it is one well understood by would-be totalitarians. It’s why the Nazis had their Hitler Jugend, the Communists their Komsomol
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Poor old Simon Wilson. He finished up 2020 telling us why he was afraid and he’s started in 2021 by still being afraid. The things he’s afraid of haven’t changed much; he’s still banging on about climate change. Well, there’s good news on that front
For a government which has been running around, Chicken Little-style, clucking about a supposed “climate emergency”, the Ardern government seems strangely reluctant to do its bit to stop the sky falling in. Besides exempting agriculture – one of New Zealand’s biggest sources of those scary, scary greenhouse emissions – from emissions
Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Spare a thought for climate scientists: no longer the go-to experts for scary headlines. The epidemiologists have taken over. 2020 started well. The usual apocalyptic summer headlines. Then bang: they were gone. For thirty years climate scientists have led public debate and focused political minds. No
Peter Murphy papundits.wordpress.com Peter Murphy is Senior Fellow at CFACT. He has researched and advocated for a variety of policy issues, including education reform and fiscal policy, both in the non-profit sector and in government in the administration of former New York Governor George Pataki. He previously wrote
Dr. John Happs PA Pundits – International Dr. John Happs M.Sc.1st Class; D.Phil. John has an academic background in the geosciences with special interests in climate, and paleoclimate. He has been a science educator at several universities in Australia and overseas and was President of the Western Australian
