Information This is a letter from John Rofe, a self-declared “Concerned Citizen” to Professor Gerrard, the NZ Prime Minister’s Science Advisor. As it is quite long we have ‘serialised’ it over a few days. I guess you probably won’t read this, so I will copy this email to
Of those 11,258 ‘scientists’ (including Mickey Mouse) who declared that the world was going to hell in a handcart due to a climate emergency, 195 were from New Zealand. What were their fields of climate science expertise that lead them to this conclusion? With a bit of jiggery-pokery, the
Sky News contributor Gideon Rozner says it’s not surprising Jacinda Ardern’s government put forward a zero carbon bill, but believes the NZ National Party should be called out for waving it through parliament. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@
Last week I was chatting with a real estate agent who has a superb property for sale on Petone foreshore. With a busy road between the house and the beach, it has fabulous sea views, and is in a prime location for the local cafes and restaurants in Petone. This
Meet Marcail Parkinson, today’s crybaby of the week and a normal teen, especially when it comes to wailing on about plastic. Walking down a supermarket aisle lined with plastic wrappers is enough to set off “massive anxiety” for Marcail Parkinson. The 17-year-old Auckland high school student feels dread, and
We on the middle and the right side of politics have been so busy being upset at the National Party for focussing on compromise instead of standing strong against the Zero Carbon Bill, that we have totally missed the delicious silver lining in it all. All is not well in
Climate Doomer Emeritus James Renwick has been found out. Rattled by one of his brighter students who chose not to buy the professor’s plant-food propaganda. Renwick worked himself into a tizzy and raced into print to rebut the perfectly valid points raised in new Wellington City Councillor Sean Rush’
In a detailed and fully-referenced paper, Wellington researcher/analyst Barbara McKenzie has published a withering rebuttal of PM Jacinda Ardern’s comments in a speech lauding the passage in the NZ Parliament of the Zero Carbon Bill. […]The Zero Carbon Bill has just passed its third reading in parliament, in
Dr Megan Woods (Minister of House Building and Windfarms) recently announced the results of the latest handouts to boffins from the Marsden Fund. “Climate change is long-term challenge that requires out-of-the-box thinking and that’s why the Government has made more progress in two years than the last Government did
Paul Hunt, Simon Bridges’ Correspondence and Research Assistant has responded to an email from a reader about National voting for the Zero Carbon Bill as follows: On behalf of Hon Simon Bridges, Leader of the Opposition, thank you for your email regarding the Zero Carbon Act. National supported the Zero
An article on Politik on Monday under the heading “Bridges uses the Zero Carbon Bill to redefine National” made for very interesting reading. Perusing the information in the article was like putting the pieces of a jigsaw together. According to Richard Harman, the decision by National to support the Bill,
I bring you wonderful news from the cold and windy but still-beating heart of the nation; the luvvies are upset, they’re positively spitting wild. Sometimes it’s great to be alive. The gentleman sending the climaterrati into an apoplectic tail-spin is Sean Rush, newly elected councillor for the Wellington’
Eeny, meeny, NIWA, mo. Pick a number; you’re good to go. That’s the state of climate science at the Ministry for Environment, it’s absolutely farcical, and that’s a fact. Just two years ago NIWA announced that for the period 1993-2016 the oceans surrounding New Zealand showed
The Urban Form and Transport Initiative group have produced a report which includes this graphic about climate change. One wonders how many ratepayer/taxpayer dollars were expended to come up with that piece of brilliance. I have a sneaky suspicion that rainfall already varies locally within the region.
I have just returned from a very pleasant week away starting at the Taranaki Rhododendron Festival and then going to Wellington to meet with staff at the Taxpayers Union and catch up with friends. The time away was made more pleasant as there was only time for a cursory glance
Poor old Martin Martyn Bradbury. No wonder his blog is so depressing. A recent post is all doom and climate gloom. By 2030, over 50% of the oceans will be collapsing as bio-habitats. This quote links to The Washington Post, that paragon of scientific rigour: More than half the world’
