Dr Samuel Dennis grounded.nz You may have noticed the recent headlines regarding the Overseer model (used by regional councils to determine farmer compliance with environmental regulation) being severely criticised in a recent independent review. “Major tool for managing farm pollution gets a fail from reviewers”, “Report finds shortcomings in
John Maunder Some of the answers to the complexities of the climate system are given in my recently published book Fifteen shades of climate… the fall of the weather dice and the butterfly effect. The following are extracts are from pages 351-359. Continued from last week Coal to Biomass
Hobson’s Pledge Trust In a shock move on Friday, three of the 11-member West Coast Conservation Board have resigned saying they have been called racist for raising what they see as conflicts between the interests of conservation and the interests of Ngai Tahu. Neil Silverwood, Inger Perkins and
Jennifer Moore Grand Valley State University Sarah Lamar Dr Diane Ormsby Nicola Jane Nelson Susan N. Keall Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Sarah is a current Ph.D. candidate at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, where her research looks at the reproductive biology of male tuatara.
Dr. Jay Lehr cfact.org CFACT Senior Science Analyst Jay Lehr has authored more than 1,000 magazine and journal articles and 36 books. Jay’s new book A Hitchhikers Journey Through Climate Change written with Teri Ciccone is now available on Kindle and Amazon. Whoever came up with the
John Maunder Some of the answers to the complexities of the climate system are given in my recently published book Fifteen shades of climate… the fall of the weather dice and the butterfly effect. The following are extracts are from pages 351-359. Part 1. Part 2 will follow next
The Conservation Minster’s handling of a ministerial review into the governance of Fish and Game will see hunters and anglers side-lined from the organisation they pay for, National’s Conservation spokesperson Jacqui Dean says. “Fish and Game receive no Government money, yet the implementation steering group, led by
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Barbara McKenzie BA (Hons) Linguistics; PhD (German Lit.) stovouno.org Nationwide policies to incorporate private land into “Significant Natural Areas”, ostensibly deriving authority from the Resource Management Act, have been met with hostility from landowners. Most recently, the Far North District Council announced on 27 July that it has dropped
Like Mark Twain, polar bears and the Arctic ice cap, the death of the Great Barrier Reef has been greatly exaggerated. The Reef has long been up there with polar bears as one of the great poster children of climate alarmism. The supposed threat to the Reef is one of
One thing I’ve learned from trying to debate climate alarmists is that so much of what they know, just ain’t so. Rarely, outside of some of the more fervent evangelical religions or Amway consultants, have I met so many people who were so absolutely certain of so many
David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. The devastating European floods reveal an incredible hypocrisy in the green agenda. They want to spend untold sums, supposedly to prevent natural floods by cutting emissions. But they spend
Mark Cameron ACT Primary Industries spokesperson Ruawai Dairy Farmer ACT welcomes the Far North Council doing the right thing and dropping the plans to confiscate land from farmers and iwi. Private property rights are under threat thanks to the Government’s directive to councils to identify and manage Significant Natural
“What”, asks The Young Ones‘ Rik, “is the major piggy contribution to society? It’s bacon, isn’t it? Bacon and rolling around in the mud!” According to new research, though, all that rolling around in the mud is making another major piggy contribution to the world: CO2. Yes, folks,
Easter Island has long been a poster boy for Malthusians. Like other Polynesian so-called “Future Eaters”, the Rapanui people are argued to have settled and then become stranded on the remote island, where they quickly ate themselves out of house and home. When European explorers discovered the island, it
Move over, ibises. The ibis may have been sacred to the Egyptians, but in Australian folklore they’ve long been derided as “bin chickens”. Using their long beaks to probe through human garbage, the birds have in recent decades adopted splendidly to urban environments. They’re not the only native
