Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Last year Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared a “climate emergency” in New Zealand. Now, in response to the Climate Commission’s report outlining how New Zealand should reduce greenhouse gas emissions to meet its United Nations Paris Accord targets, she’s claiming climate change is
As the ideologues in government announce a reverse Robin Hood tax to encourage EV sales, one has to wonder where they were when the ability to think critically was handed out. Stealing from the poor to subsidise the wealthy into smugmobiles is wrong on so many levels and yet the
Craig Lord There seems to be a new festering sore arising in our youth and unless it is lanced quickly, it will become toxic and spread like – well, like a pandemic. Ironically, I am talking about a virus, but it’s a virus that spreads from hate. I’m fairly
School Strike 4 Climate Auckland Discussion of Racism School Strike 4 Climate Auckland is disbanding as an organisation. This is under the suggestion and guidance of the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) members of our group, as well as individual BIPOC activists and organisations. We are not holding
James Shaw is becoming increasingly grandiloquent as he sabotages New Zealand’s economy with his particular toxic brew of voodoo economics and green charlatanism. His latest statement about CO2 levels is a case in point: Shaw said the last time there was carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in the concentrations
We all know about the Climate Commission’s report, which came out last week. It continues with the usual narrative, that we are destroying the planet, and we all have to live like Stone Age people if we wish to survive. The prime minister jumped in with her usual dose
Dear Editor With all of the talk about replacing vehicles that use fossil fuels with electric vehicles, there appears to be no real attempt to address where the additional electricity required to charge a greatly increased fleet of such vehicles will come from. Certainly not from renewable resources, as we
It had to happen. The wokesters’ goal of carbon neutral by 2050 to save the planet is expected to adversely affect NZ food production when belching and farting stock reductions would be mandated by the government to ensure farmers comply. Now stock numbers are being reduced in Waitomo where farmland
John Maunder sunlive.co.nz Rainfalls for the month of May have been recorded in Tauranga since 1898 – except for 1904, 1907, 1908, and 1909. The graph shows the range of rainfalls from an extreme high of 634 mm in 2005 to a low of 13 mm in 2001. The
Dear Editor One thing we should remember is that the Climate Commission has promised that electricity prices will not increase. This is a nonsense claim for two reasons. The first reason is that a domestic price increase of about 30% is already locked in because of the high prices over
Information Satire Hat tip Babylonbee.com New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has added NZ dairy cows to the list of world recognised terrorist groups. “This is literally a life or death situation”, she said while wearing a frowny face and frantically waving her arms about. “Cow flatulence is a
David Seymour ACT Leader Even Jacinda Ardern’s harshest critics never imagined her ‘nuclear-free moment’ would be coal-powered. According to the latest figures from the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE), coal imports are up are up 25 per cent on the same quarter last year. Coal
Owen Jennings Former National President of Federated Farmers Yesterday Prime Minster Ardern claimed that action on the Climate Commission’s recommendations was “a matter of life and death”. There is zero truth in that statement. It is outrageous and dangerous. All the evidence shows that climate-related deaths – both from
David Seymour ACT Leader The Climate Commission has run a poor process with its report, with a lack of public consultation and shutting out journalists. It’s imperative we have robust consultation and allow the media to hold the Government accountable, especially at a time where the Government is being
David Seymour ACT Leader The Climate Commission wants the Government to ban and tax its way out of climate change. The report recommends banning vehicles with internal combustion engines, banning new gas connections, reducing herd sizes and increasing taxes through the feebate scheme. If the Government wants to do what’
Today’s final report from the Climate Change Commission still leaves unanswered questions even through there has been some movement from the 70 specific policy recommendations in the draft advice, National’s Climate Change spokesperson Stuart Smith says. “The draft report proposed measures like banning gas connections, which would have
