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
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the Government is keen to declare a climate-change emergency but work needs to be done to get more MPs onboard. “I don’t see why there should be any reasons why members of Parliament wouldn’t want to demonstrate that this is a matter of
The new ‘evil’ is jet contrails. They are going to cook us all. Much worse than CO2 etc etc yadda yadda The aviation industry is even worse for climate change than previously thought, with a new study revealing the damage being done by otherwise harmless contrails. They’re so bad,
In an interview on TVNZ News at Six on the 28th of June, the Scott Base Redevelopment Senior Project Manager, Simon Shelton, said, “It’s about three times the cost to build in Antarctica, that’s a fully self-sufficient building in the most harshest [sic] continent on earth.” This raised
In spite of all the alarm being forced upon those living near the coast as a result of Local Authorities drawing scary lines on their LIM reports, it seems that doomsday is a little way off yet. We can postpone the coastal climate emergency for a week or two. A
If timing is everything in comedy, then Al Gore must surely be the greatest comic genius since Groucho Marx. Not only are Gore’s climate prediction pratfalls legendarily comical; the King of Environmentalist Slapstick has timed his latest taxpayer-funded, carbon-spewing international junket to Australia right on the heels of the
By John What is it with governments and local councils these days? Many seem to have a penchant for either coming up with wacky ideas or involving themselves in areas that they think are fashionable, but in truth are no more than virtue signalling. Take the latest from Auckland council
It’s getting pretty hard to keep up with the ever-shifting nomenclature of climate catastrophism. Those of us with longer memories will recall the “New Ice Age” of the 1970s, which was climate change before it was cool, so to speak. But global cooling was quickly elbowed aside by “global
Louis Houlbrooke New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union ‘Climate emergency’ trend sweeping the nation Are you feeling alarmed? According to virtue-signalling local politicians, you should be, because councils across the country are rushing to declare ‘climate emergencies’. Following intense media attention on last week’s ‘climate change strike’, nearly every council in
