John Maunder Rainfalls for the month of September have been recorded in Tauranga since 1898, except for 1904, 1907, 1908, and 1909. The graph below shows the range of rainfalls from an extreme high of 274 mm in 1973 to a low of only 16 mm in 1965. The second
Stuart Smith MP for Kaikoura Spokesperson for Climate Change, EQC and Viticulture I was invited by Climate Change Minister, James Shaw, to attend COP 26 in Glasgow later this year and indicated that I was interested in attending, subject to suitable travel arrangements being available. At that time it looked
Are the wheels finally falling off the climate catastrophe scam? While some of us caught on well over a decade ago – it’s hard to believe it’s been 12 years since the “climategate” emails blew the lie wide open – the slower kids are still playing catch-up and the con-artists
When the UNIPCC released its Sixth Assessment Report, the usual gaggle of troughers, activists and media dimwits went into immediate hysterics. Clearly, none of them have read it — or, if they have, they’re either lying or just plain stupid. Or both. You decide. Because, any clear-minded person scanning the
Once our pioneer ancestors turned tussock or bush into farmland to make a living. Now our leadership is engineering almost the exact opposite and is inviting the rest of the world to help. Sometimes I think of it as a seriously warped scorched-earth policy where the invaders gain fertile land
Information Satire Maori Affairs Explainer Editor: Police are walking back the idea that the police need to adopt Te Reo Maori as a crime-fighting tool. Initially, they said students from Kura Kaupapa total immersion schools could be crucial to the future of the force. A spokes-them-they-it-person for the police said
John Maunder Some of the answers to the complexities of the climate system are given in my recently published book “Fifteen shades of climate… the fall of the weather dice and the butterfly effect”. The following are extracts are from pages 10-14, and page 15. The following was published on
I was vaguely acquainted with Tim Flannery in his uni days. I even accompanied him on a fossil dig. What was noticeable, even then, is that while he’s a nice enough fellow, he’s also prone to, shall we say, wacky ideas. Back then, Flannery was all hot for
The BFD transcript Newstalk ZB Tuesday 21 September Kate Hawkesby speaks to Stuart Smith, National’s Spokesperson for Climate Change Kate: Climate Change Minister James Shaw is wanting to take nine other people with him from Wellington to this year’s climate change talks in Glasgow. Dubbed COP26, it will
David Seymour ACT Leader Captain Planet James Shaw is taking 14 officials to Glasgow with him, the first XV of climate change. Despite COVID-19 being out of control in Glasgow, Shaw has decided to dive in boots and all. This is not the first time the squad has gone on
If James Shaw was giving consolation gifts to Kiwis desperately trying to get home this Christmas he’d likely give them a lump of coal, having confirmed he plans to take 14 staff with him to the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, National’s Climate Change spokesperson Stuart Smith says.
It’s not for nothing that the Royal Society’s motto is Nullius in Verba. “Take no one’s word for it.” Sadly, the Society itself rarely lives up to that motto any more, having long ago traded scepticism for right-on gullibility. Especially when it comes to climate change. Yet
John Maunder Some of the answers to the complexities of the climate system are given in my recently published book “Fifteen shades of climate… the fall of the weather dice and the butterfly effect”. The following are extracts are from pages 5-9. Weather dice were shown on the cover of
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Green Party co-leader James Shaw has been under fire for planning to fly to Glasgow for a climate change conference with an unspecified number of support staff. Priding ourselves on fairness towards New Zealand’s elected representatives, the Taxpayers’ Union offered Mr Shaw the opportunity to present his defence. It
In a time of universal deceit about climate change, telling the truth is not just a revolutionary, but a positively heretical act. Just ask, say, Bjorn Lomborg or Judith Curry. Even speaking from personal experience, nothing induces pure, spitting rage in a climate botherer so much as calmly reciting facts
