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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

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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

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Tauranga March Average Afternoon Temperatures 1913-2021

Tauranga March Average Afternoon Temperatures 1913-2021

John Maunder sunlive.co.nz Temperatures have been recorded in the Tauranga area at several sites during the last 107 years including the current Tauranga Airport site from June 1990. The graph shows details of the average daily maximum temperatures, called simply ‘afternoon’, for Tauranga for the months of March

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Dear Leaders of the Opposition

Dear Leaders of the Opposition

John Rofe Dear David Seymour Perhaps after 4 months drop of average 0.1? per month, the time has come to seek the Prime Minister’s explanation for her declaration of a Climate Crisis? Dear Judith Collins May I remind you that you warned the PM to be careful during

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World Meteorological Day 23 March 2021

John Maunder sunlive.co.nz The ocean drives the world’s weather and climate and anchors the global economy and food security. WMO Secretary-General Prof. Petteri Taalas says that this year’s World Meteorological Day on 23 March is devoted to the theme “the ocean, our climate and weather.

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The Govt Should Set Aside the Climate Change Commission Report

The Govt Should Set Aside the Climate Change Commission Report

T. J. Dunleavy Hon Secretary Submission on Report of New Zealand Climate Change Commission Never before in the history of Earth sciences has so much misrepresentation been concentrated into so long a document advocating such complete overthrow of past progress in human life expectancy and wellbeing, socio-economics and technology,

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Government Must Follow Most Efficient Pathway

Government Must Follow Most Efficient Pathway

ACT Party ACT Climate Change spokesperson Simon Court. “A startling admission from the Climate Commission chair that his group’s draft advice to Government does not recommend the most efficient pathway or policies for emissions reduction brings the whole process into disrepute,” says ACT Climate Change spokesperson Simon Court. “On

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The Southern Oscillation INDEX…1880- 2021

John Maunder sunlive.co.nz 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.

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Climate Change Commission Won’t Stop One Gram of Emissions
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Climate Change Commission Won’t Stop One Gram of Emissions

ACT Party ACT’s Climate Change Spokesperson Simon Court “The Climate Change Commission’s proposals for reducing our emissions will give massive power to government, hit Kiwis with higher costs, but fail to achieve its goal,” says ACT’s Climate Change Spokesperson Simon Court in ACT’s submission on the

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What the Climate Commission Draft Report Got Wrong

What the Climate Commission Draft Report Got Wrong

Points to Note in Regard to Agricultural Livestock Emissions Ruminant Methane and Nitrous Oxide. The Climate Commission draft report is a missed opportunity to properly redress the numerous and significant mistakes that governments over many years have made about the impact of ruminant methane emissions. FARM recommends the Commission rewrites

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We Have One Signed Copy to Give Away
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We Have One Signed Copy to Give Away

Many of you will have been following Dr John Maunder’s guest posts on The BFD and some of you may already have purchased a copy of his book Fifteen Shades of Climate. On the 27th of March, we are giving away a signed copy valued at    $US 69.95

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Open Letter to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

Open Letter to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

Dear Prime Minister On 1 January 2021 I emailed an Open Letter to you, which was also sent to the Minister for Climate Change and also to every member of the Climate Change Commission. The title of that Open Letter was “An Open Letter to the Prime Minister regarding the

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We Have One Signed Copy to Give Away

We Have One Signed Copy to Give Away

Many of you will have been following Dr John Maunder’s guest posts on The BFD and some of you may already have purchased a copy of his book Fifteen Shades of Climate. On the 27th of March, we are giving away a signed copy valued at    $US 69.95

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