What we are faced with is not just mindless, irresponsible scaremongering from poseurs in and around Wellington’s Beehive for their nefarious political ends; now we have it in Auckland in what was once hailed as the nation’s No 1 daily newspaper, the New Zealand Herald. There was a
James Renwick Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington My background is in atmospheric science, with plenty of maths and statistics on the side. My specialty is the large-scale circulation of the atmosphere and how climate variability and change affects the New Zealand and the Antarctic. New Zealand’s
Robin Grieve Chairman F.A.R.M. ‘The Climate Commission’s recommendation to reduce livestock numbers by 15% by 2030 is not sensible, practical or justified,’ Robin Grieve, chairman of FARM (Facts About Ruminant Methane) said yesterday. Reducing livestock numbers will invariably cost New Zealand export income, and mean that
Owen Jennings A future MSM Headline, coming to a media outlet near you and soon. Government Announces Massive Stock Culling Plan to Reduce Methane. The Government has decided to proceed with a drastic plan to reduce livestock numbers by 33% over the next three years in an effort to meet
For a government which has been running around, Chicken Little-style, clucking about a supposed “climate emergency”, the Ardern government seems strangely reluctant to do its bit to stop the sky falling in. Besides exempting agriculture – one of New Zealand’s biggest sources of those scary, scary greenhouse emissions – from
Peter J. Morgan Honorary Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Environomics (NZ) Trust Politicised climate scientists say their models and their case for rapid, dangerous, manmade global warming are based on “sound science”. They are not. In a new learned paper the Argonauts – ten eminent experts – demonstrate irrefutably that climate scientists
John Rofe This week we had the astonishing spectacle of the Speaker, Trevor Mallard, finally coming clean about how much the mistaken use of the term “rape” has cost the NZ taxpayer, after a week or so of prevarication. He is now being taken apart by a cowardly pack of
The High Court has ruled in favour of Hauraki Coromandel Climate Action Inc (HCCA) which sought a judicial review of the decision of the Thames-Coromandel District Council (TCDC) to refuse to sign the Local Government Leaders Climate Declaration. The Court has ruled that TCDC’s decision was unlawful and
Dear Editor Climate changes because nothing is permanent. Child-like minds prefer things not to change but children grow up. Or many do. Many adults live with childish outlooks. They are lazy and prefer simple solutions to problems that even children can understand are complex. An example of a simple
Global Warming & the Climate Emergency What a week that was! No sooner had Jacinda Ardern bamboozled her Labour Party, the Greens and the Maori Party to vote for a motion claiming a “climate emergency”, than a panel of distinguished international scientists calling themselves The Argonauts published a report showing
