Earth has ice in its veins and nations like New Zealand are wasting resources and energy needlessly panicking over fossil fuels and so-called “climate emergencies”, says a New Zealand geologist once dubbed by Stuff as one of the“intellectual heavyweights of the Canterbury geological sciences department”. Over the years, I’
When any discussion sinks to the level of attacking the person rather than the topic or issue at hand, it is a sign that the attacker has lost. When their position is so weak that debating the facts cannot convince their opponent, an ad hominem attack is a resort of
Currently, most of our electricity is generated by renewables, around 80%. But when we all get on board the JAG wagon and buy EVs where is the extra electricity going to come from? Dr Woods is now too busy knocking up Kiwibuild houses to get her 4.5 windfarms per
You couldn’t make it up. The MAGICC calculator was developed by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research under funding by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the acronym stands for the Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse-gas Induced Climate Change). And they expect us to take
Normally the answer to that question would revolve around whether you had been out playing in the mud with your 4×4 or the time elapsed since you last visited the carwash or got out the bucket and cloth. But no, in the brave new world of climate idiocy, ‘dirty’
The single-use government’s latest neuron-free generational moment proposal is a tax on internal combustion engines to bribe the gullible into buying un-green electric vehicles. What happened in the UK when they tried this? Did no one think to fly over to London on a fact-finding mission? The UK bribe
By George I would like to consider myself a handyman. If something needs fixing I’ll give it a go. And then my beloved will engage plan B and call in an expert to rectify the worsening situation. It is accepted that most of us rely on specialists to ensure
James Delingpole has rightly called wind turbines “bat-chomping bird-slicing eco-crucifixes”. The carnage inflicted on bird and especially bat populations by these whirling engines of death is well-documented. The religious fetishism of these droning eyesores is demonstrated by the extraordinary indulgences of the faithful of the Church of Gaia. When a
The climate ’emergency’ nonsense got a fair old roasting last week. And rightly so. As Karma wondered, “Is there an ambulance big enough to fit the environment in?” But if the children declare it is an emergency, then it must be. Children always know best. Our single use plastic PM
It never ceases to amaze me that a country economy dependent on growing things — be it via arboriculture, agriculture, apiculture, aquaculture, aviculture, citriculture, floriculture, horticulture, mariculture, pisciculture, silviculture, viticulture or simply the scenery that brings tourists to our Great Walks etc — would want to deprive all this of its feedstock.
According to both the general public and to our readers the government should NOT declare a Climate Emergency. The MSM poll when we last checked had a 77% majority against declaring an emergency. Our blog poll had an even stronger no vote with 98% against an emergency declaration. Our Blog
There is very worrying news about; there is an emergency! Obviously the place to get information about emergencies is the wonderful world wide webby thingy so what does a search for ’emergency in NZ’ give? Is it an emergency? You can call 111 emergency call in situations such as: * fire
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Did you wonder about the 1 – 2 m of hail in Mexico? Did you ponder the physics of hail piling cars at funny angles? Did you blame the Guadalajara Council for not declaring a climate emergency? Wonder no more: It was clearly a dramatic and extremely impressive event with major
Now I do know that short term issues are no indicator of either past or future weather or climate, but I was wondering. Please Sir, may I have some Global Warming? I have owned my current property for about 8 years and this is the first time we have had
Information Humour ( not an actual product) With some New Zealand councils recently declaring Climate Emergencies, the Blog team realised that it was time to put together a Climate Emergency Survival pack. The first item included in our pack is a highly sophisticated rain, snow, flooding and sun gauge made from
