New Zealand’s largest single emissions reduction project has been announced for NZ Steel’s Glenbrook plant. A deal has been struck between the government, NZ Steel and Contact Energy: The new furnace – to which taxpayers are contributing up to $140 million through the Government Investment in Decarbonising Industry fund
The Blonde Recently I spent some time looking at photos of our beautiful country, trying to see it through the eyes of a tourist or a new arrival to our shores. It is very easy, if living in a city, to assume that everyone else is living in a similar
John Maunder A panel discussion on “Climate Change: Both Sides of the Story” was held at a Rotary Conference in Cambridge, New Zealand on June 28 2008. I was President of the Rotary Club of Otumoetai for 2007-08 at this time, and the Rotary District Governor John Tarbutt asked
Scientist and blogger Jennifer Marohasy has exposed how Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has repeatedly fiddled with historic temperature records in the name of “homogenisation”. Homogenisation is not in itself wrong — methods of data collection have varied wildly over the century or so that consistent records have been kept. These
It’s not for nothing that my Second Law of the Media is: When an article claims, “science says…” or “new study shows…”, assume that it doesn’t until proven otherwise. Once again, Stuff are the proof of that rule. Scientists have cautiously concluded climate change is partly responsible for
Ian Wishart Investigate Magazine issuu.com NIWA statement about Historic Weather Events website The website Ian Wishart has based his opinions on is not New Zealand’s national climate database. Wishart has conflated the Historic Weather Events website with the New Zealand National Climate Database that is used by NIWA
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Graham Adams commonroomnz.com Graham Adams is a freelance editor, journalist and columnist. He lives on Auckland’s North Shore. This column was first published at The Common Room, commonroomnz.com Who would have thought a very ill wind would blow the Greens no good? After devastating floods in January
This week, investigative journalist Ian Wishart released a concerning report about NIWA being selective in its record of historical weather events. The downloadable report is available here: investigatemagazine.co.nz. A summary of the document says: * Most of New Zealand’s biggest historic storms and cyclones are missing from NIWA’
Dr Muriel Newman tnzcpr.com On June 22, 1633, at a time when heretics were being burnt at the stake, Galileo, the Astronomer, Physicist, and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pisa, was charged by the Inquisition with heresy for writing a book that claimed the earth orbited the
Nothing shows how out of touch with their own audience the legacy media really are than their religious obsession with climate change. The legacy media incessantly pound their little pulpits with the zeal of tent-show evangelists, shrieking and hollering at the sinners and unbelievers. Like mediaeval popes, they rigorously
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Anita Wreford Professor Applied Economics Lincoln University, New Zealand Hawke’s Bay, one of New Zealand’s most productive regions and the hub of the fruit-growing sector, is among the areas worst hit by Cyclone Gabrielle and ongoing rain. Horticulture underpins the local economy, with apple earnings alone contributing
I’ve said for a long time that the wets inside National will be the end of them. None are more wet with keen interest in woke womble-ism than Christopher Luxon. He’s now decided he needs to give MP Maureen Pugh a good finger wagging and telling off
John Maunder The “weather bomb” which brought widespread destruction and the loss of lives and record rainfalls in the Auckland area of New Zealand during the January 27 -31, 2023 period was in part (together with a third La Nina event in three years, and much warmer sea temperatures), the
While the Greens, MSM and other panicked people are citing “climate change” as responsible for the sudden flooding of Auckland and Northland, it’s worth considering the history of such events in our fair isles. These records are from the government’s own history website. In 1863: Approximately 25 gold
