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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder The extract below on “Climate Refugees” is from pages 293-298 of my book. The idea for the book came about when I was visiting my family in Adelaide in January 2020 during a heatwave. One day when the forecast was for 45°C my daughter Denise suggested I

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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder Monthly rainfalls for Tauranga have been recorded at several recording sites during the last 122 years. The rainfall for Tauranga for 2021 was 959 mm. From January 1898 to December 1904, the observation site was described as the Tauranga Harbour, from November 1904 to April 1907 the site

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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder The average afternoon temperature in 2021 was 20.2 degrees Celsius, which made 2021 the fourth warmest year on record. Temperatures have been recorded in the Tauranga area at several sites in the last 108 years, including the current Tauranga Airport site from June 1990. It’s very

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Weather- Just How Does It Happen?

Weather- Just How Does It Happen?

Dr Geoff Duffy   Retired Professor of Chemical Engineering DEng, PhD, BSc, ASTC Dip, FRSNZ, FIChemE Terry Dunleavy writes: In the 22 years since I co-founded the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition to counter the false propaganda about what was then called “dangerous anthropogenic global warning” (DAGW) now called simply “climate

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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder Temperatures have been recorded in the Tauranga area at several sites during the last 100 years, including the current Tauranga Airport site from June 1990. The average afternoon temperature in December 2021 was 24.5 degrees Celsius the highest since records began in 1913. The graph below shows

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Telling People What They Do Not Want to Hear

Telling People What They Do Not Want to Hear

John Rofe “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell Dear Politicians, I wish you and your family and friends each a Happy New Year. On the 23rd of December 2021, I sent you a warning

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Ardern’s Scheme Benefits Indonesian Coal Merchants

Ardern’s Scheme Benefits Indonesian Coal Merchants

Eliora **This article has been republished. It is one of the most popular articles from 2021. Indonesian coal merchants will be doing well out of Ardern’s scheme to reduce NZ’s CO2 emissions. The Ardern-led government loves to announce ideological clangers to unsuspecting Kiwis. These new schemes are coming

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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder The following data sets and comments are from the climate4you.com website developed by Professor Ole Humlum who is a Danish Professor Emeritus of Physical Geography at the University of Oslo, and Adjunct Professor of Physical Geography at the University Centre in Svalbard. The website climate4you.com which

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Have I Got a Deal for You!

Have I Got a Deal for You!

Since readers of The BFD are extremely concerned about the extraordinary damage CO2 is doing to our fragile wee planet, we here at The BFD are immensely proud to be able to introduce you to the solution. From now on, you will be able to sleep easy at night knowing

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Grifter of the Week; Phil Goff
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Grifter of the Week; Phil Goff

Arthur Anyone even vaguely cynical about the climate con and the scumbags running it knows several things. 1. It is a Trojan horse movement driven by socialist elites to get power. 2. It is a cause supported by every sort of grubby commie and lefty from scowling zealots to cut

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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder https://www.climate4you.com/Text/Climate4you One example of what is contained in the above website are the charts of Arctic and Antarctic surface air temperatures from January 2000 to September 2011. Each month Professor Ole Humlum of the The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), in Norway publishes

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Quite a Few Tools

Quite a Few Tools

Kay O’Lacey wokejoke.nz Information Satire In a joint announcement this morning involving the PM and James Shaw, the Princess Ardern Government of Aotearoa NZ (PAGANZ) have revealed a new energy-saving initiative. “James has been using his time in MIQ most productively, and we’re really pleased to share

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James Shaw Spends More Time in Isolation than Glasgow – For Nothing
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James Shaw Spends More Time in Isolation than Glasgow – For Nothing

Simon Court ACT Climate Change spokesperson The Climate Change Minister has spent more time in isolation than he spent in Glasgow announcing things that will make no real change to New Zealand’s pre-existing policies. Shaw left New Zealand on November 6 and returned on November 15. After nine days

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Climate Change Is an Issue That Deserves More than Hollow Promises
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Climate Change Is an Issue That Deserves More than Hollow Promises

The world has agreed to ramp up climate action after the two-week UN climate summit in Glasgow ended in a joint compromise from nearly 200 countries. What were the most significant measures agreed in your view and is New Zealand doing enough? Information Opinion Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura It

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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 an overall warming trend in the average tropospheric temperatures, apart from, at times, milder temperatures since about 1999, but with three significant warm periods associated with the El Nino events in 1998

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That’s Not Science It’s Religion

That’s Not Science It’s Religion

John Rofe Earth’s two most important Endowments are Water [H2O] and Carbon Dioxide [CO2] – Add light, we get Oxygen [O2] Despite being an investor in renewable energy technologies, materials and systems and therefore a beneficiary of the Glasgow COP26 Charade, I was horrified at the blatant hypocrisy on show.

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