Information This is a letter from John Rofe, a self-declared “Concerned Citizen” to Professor Gerrard, the NZ Prime Minister’s Science Advisor. As it is quite long we have ‘serialised’ it over a few days. * Part one here. * Part two here. * Part three here. You needn’t concern yourself about
Information This is a letter from John Rofe, a self-declared “Concerned Citizen” to Professor Gerrard, the NZ Prime Minister’s Science Advisor. As it is quite long we have ‘serialised’ it over a few days. * Part one here. * Part two here. This year even suppliers of seed will be unable
To adopt a quote from Homer Simpson, “Climate change: is there anything it can’t do?” So far, the dazzling list of things supposedly caused by climate change included everything from a decline in circumcisions, struggling brothels and even the Earth spinning faster. Now, we can add shitty service from
Information This is a letter from John Rofe, a self-declared “Concerned Citizen” to Professor Gerrard, the NZ Prime Minister’s Science Advisor. As it is quite long we have ‘serialized’ it over a few days. Part one here. New Zealand’s situation is pretty much an “outlier” on the world
Information This is a letter from John Rofe, a self-declared “Concerned Citizen” to Professor Gerrard, the NZ Prime Minister’s Science Advisor. As it is quite long we have ‘serialised’ it over a few days. I guess you probably won’t read this, so I will copy this email to
Of those 11,258 ‘scientists’ (including Mickey Mouse) who declared that the world was going to hell in a handcart due to a climate emergency, 195 were from New Zealand. What were their fields of climate science expertise that lead them to this conclusion? With a bit of jiggery-pokery, the
I wrote a post on Saturday commenting on yet another school shooting in the USA and roxypiper commented: “Pinker tells us (and demonstrates in Better Angels of Our Nature) that the world is actually becoming less violent. The USA is however acknowledged as being an ‘outlier’ in the data.” Which
Meet Marcail Parkinson, today’s crybaby of the week and a normal teen, especially when it comes to wailing on about plastic. Walking down a supermarket aisle lined with plastic wrappers is enough to set off “massive anxiety” for Marcail Parkinson. The 17-year-old Auckland high school student feels dread, and
Sir Elton John was asked if he could be any woman alive today, who would he be? “John answered: “It’s hard to pick someone from today, because there are so many candidates, but I think I’d choose Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand. She’s one
Australians are being ripped off for more than a billion dollars a year for publicly-funded broadcasters who bully and belittle ordinary Australians – and assiduously lie to them. Not only do the public broadcasters repeatedly peddle garbage fake news, they also strenuously hide inconvenient truths from the Australian public. Truths which
Paul Hunt, Simon Bridges’ Correspondence and Research Assistant has responded to an email from a reader about National voting for the Zero Carbon Bill as follows: On behalf of Hon Simon Bridges, Leader of the Opposition, thank you for your email regarding the Zero Carbon Act. National supported the Zero
An article on Politik on Monday under the heading “Bridges uses the Zero Carbon Bill to redefine National” made for very interesting reading. Perusing the information in the article was like putting the pieces of a jigsaw together. According to Richard Harman, the decision by National to support the Bill,
Dear Editor This is a letter I have sent to our local MP. I just cant believe how the National Party have been suckered by this climate change bulldust. So National has supported the coalition’s Zero Carbon bill. I am so disappointed. Prior to the industrial revolution, except for
A mural in Edmonton honouring environmental activist Greta Thunberg has been defaced. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz
