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Stuart Smith – Costing & Options Missing from Climate Change Commission
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Stuart Smith – Costing & Options Missing from Climate Change Commission

The Climate Commission should be presenting New Zealand with a range of viable options for emissions reduction with cost analysis included, National’s Climate Change Spokesperson Stuart Smith says. “Climate Commission Chair Dr Rod Carr’s column on why he is not recommending a least cost pathway fails to answer

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Weather Eye with John Maunder
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Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder The Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) is a standardized index based on the observed sea level pressure differences between Tahiti and Darwin, Australia. The SOI is a leading measure of the large-scale fluctuations in air pressure occurring between the western and eastern tropical Pacific (i.e., the state of

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Weather Eye with John Maunder
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Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder The chart below shows that since 1979, when reliable satellite observations became available, there has been little overall trend in the average tropospheric temperatures, apart from milder/warmer temperatures since about 1997, and two significant warm periods associated with the El Nino events in 1998 and 2015-16. The

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Weather Eye with John Maunder
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Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder Temperatures have been recorded in the Tauranga area at several sites during the last 108 years, including the current Tauranga Airport site from June 1990. It’s very common for areas such as Tauranga to have had different observation sites during the years – and the readings from the

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A Formal Complaint to the NZ Police

A Formal Complaint to the NZ Police

John Rofe Experienced Private Fraud Investigator 2 August 2020 Dear Superintendant, Following many years of investigation and supported by both empirical scientific evidence and having diligently and independently pursued the empirical observations to back up my allegations, I wish to register three complaints of fraud.  They are as follows: FORMAL

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Weather Eye with John Maunder
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Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder sunlive.co.nz Monthly rainfalls for Tauranga have been recorded at several recording sites during the last 122 years. From January 1898 to December 1904, the observation site was described as the Tauranga Harbour, from November 1904 to April 1907 the site was described as simply ‘Tauranga’. From

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More Certain Than Climate, Economic Doom

More Certain Than Climate, Economic Doom

Has anyone noticed that there have not been any student protest marches during the school holidays despite a recent climate summit during the holidays? It’s almost as if the protests are really organised by adults with an agenda… If you enjoyed this Satirical image please share it so others

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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder The chart below shows that since 1979, when reliable satellite observations became available, there has been little overall trend in the average tropospheric temperatures, apart from  milder/warmer temperatures since about 1997, and two significant warm periods associated with the El Nino events in 1998 and 2015-16 The

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Weather Eye with John Maunder
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Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder The ‘Maunder Minimum’ is the name given to the period from 1645 to 1715 when the number of sunspots – ‘storms’ on the sun – became almost zero. The period is named after the solar astronomer Edward Walter Maunder (1851-1928), who was working at The Royal Observatory at Greenwich when

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Which Is Better for the Environment, the Train or the Car?

Which Is Better for the Environment, the Train or the Car?

Our government has a policy that they are not investing in new roads much anymore because they want people to switch to public transport, walking or cycling instead.  This is part of their stated intent to obey the dictates of the IPCC and reduce our CO2 emissions. Prior to the

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woman standing on gray soil

Bigtime Wakeup Call

Owen Jennings I remember my father talking of surviving during the great 1929 depression. Meals consisted of what they could grow – often a carrot, a spud and an onion. No credit at the local shop. No new clothes, no car, homemade everything. People knocking on doors asking for food and

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NZ Education System Fails Our Children

NZ Education System Fails Our Children

Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz Recently some students in Wellington skipped school and marched demanding government action on climate change. Photographs of the event unsurprisingly featured crowds of mostly young women with that look. You know, that wide-eyed earnest but naive and slightly unhinged do-gooder look which makes even the

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Time Extension Needed for Climate Change Report

Time Extension Needed for Climate Change Report

National has written to Climate Change Minister James Shaw calling for him to extend the report-back time on the Climate Change Commission Report, National’s Climate Change spokesperson Stuart Smith says. “We all want an Emissions Reduction Plan that addresses the environmental challenges we face in New Zealand, but in

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Coal Boiler Ban Is Virtue Signalling

Coal Boiler Ban Is Virtue Signalling

ACT Party ACT’s Environment Spokesperson Simon Court. “The Government’s ban on coal-fired boilers won’t stop one gram of emissions because the Emissions Trading Scheme already sets a hard cap,” says ACT’s Environment Spokesperson Simon Court. “This idea is nothing more than virtue signalling and it shows

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Government Jumping the Gun on Climate Change Plan

Government Jumping the Gun on Climate Change Plan

The Government has jumped the gun by announcing a ban on new coal-fired boilers ahead of the independent Climate Change Commission announcing its emissions reduction plan. National’s Climate Change spokesperson Stuart Smith says today’s announcement is way out in front of the process that was established to have

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