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Written By: r0b - Date published: 11:58 am, March 7th, 2010 - 15 comments
It turns out that there is a climate change industry after all.
It is the denier industry, bought and paid for by ExxonMobil…
Written By: Demeter - Date published: 10:23 am, February 26th, 2010 - 3 comments
Nothing like a good IT stoush, particularly of the David and Goliath variety.
Greenpeace has blown the whistle on Facebook’s use of coal to power its new data center in (note: renewable-rich) Oregon. The supposedly forward-looking social networking site picked this energy dinosaur (and the world’s leading cause of climate change), because it figures the incremental …
Written By: Dancr - Date published: 4:30 pm, February 25th, 2010 - 45 comments
According to a Guardian poll today, public conviction about the threat of climate change has declined with the proportion of adults who believe climate change is “definitely” a reality dropped by 30% over the last year, from 44% to 31%, in the latest survey by Ipsos Mori. Overall around nine out of 10 people questioned still appear to accept some degree of global warming.
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 12:07 pm, February 21st, 2010 - 15 comments
At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world’s energy future, describing the need for “miracles” to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he’s backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.
Written By: r0b - Date published: 11:58 am, February 21st, 2010 - 8 comments
Climate change deniers spend a lot of time picking at motes – occasional errors in climate change science. Why is there so little attention to the beams – incorrect and dishonest denier claims and tactics?
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 12:00 pm, February 11th, 2010 - 18 comments
The Government and the secretive Iwi Leadership Group are looking at an option where no-one owns the foreshore and seabed. It’s often forgotten that the Ngati Apa case, which sparked the foreshore and seabed, contraversy was about big business. Ngati Apa wanted to have title over the seabed so it could undertake aquaculture, bypassing a …
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 9:38 am, February 9th, 2010 - 63 comments
Consider these results from opinion surveys of experts different areas of research, I won’t tell you the areas of research just yet:
In one, 97% of actively publishing experts agree with a statement (I’ll give you the statement below) concerning their field.
In the other field, 46.5% of experts fully agreed with the statement, 27.9% agreed with privisios, …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 7:00 am, February 7th, 2010 - 78 comments
Poneke’s weblog recently wrote a critical post about ‘climategate’ where he has had a look through the subset of selectively leaked pages of private correspondence thieved from the CRU at the University of East Anglia. His analysis didn’t bother to look at the science of climate change virtually at all, and what science was looked at was full of myths. Furthermore it wasn’t particularly original. Most appeared to have been cribbed from a number of climate change denialist sites and throughly debunked in part or as a whole by many other sites. It was hardly the type of original thinking that David Farrar at kiwiblog should have labeled as being
Poneke’s full post is a must read. It is also the sort of journalism that should be in the mainstream media.
Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:05 pm, February 3rd, 2010 - 1 comment
I’m totally rapt with Lyn Collie & Briar March getting the recognition for their documentary “There once was an island”. Lyn talked about it on Nightline last night.
Written By: lprent - Date published: 12:15 pm, January 27th, 2010 - 29 comments
Today my partner Lyn Collie will be at the world premiere at Festival International du Film Documentaire Oceanien in Tahiti of the documentary that she has been producing part-time all the time I’ve known her. My congratulations to both her, the director Briar March, and the many other people who have worked on this documentary since they started working on it in 2006 for getting it out and being seen.
Written By: lprent - Date published: 4:32 pm, January 16th, 2010 - 53 comments
When you get a cold snap in the local weather, it means that somewhere else got somewhat warmer. Weather is a case of local shifts in energy balances. Climate changes on the other hand are an overall shifting due to underlying changes in energy inflows and retention. You can really only see them looking at …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 5:22 pm, January 11th, 2010 - 62 comments
This is just too funny. One of Ian Wisharts sources in AirCon which he quoted from ‘verbatim’ turns out to have been a kiddies resource from 1999 – which he still mis-interpreted.
Gareth at Hot-topic has been tearing apart some of Wisharts recent posturing, and posted this comment
Wishart, responding to some prodding, says this in a …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 12:10 pm, January 9th, 2010 - 70 comments
Gareth over at Hot-Topic has written a delightful post “Popgun for hire: A$20,000 detailing one person who is making money off climate change. No it isn’t the scientists. It is our favorite Potty Peer – Christopher, Viscount Monckton of Brenchley.
Some of the CCDs have been saying that there is a “climate change industry” and that …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 5:03 pm, December 31st, 2009 - 64 comments
Well it is the end of 2009. So here are some final thoughts on the implications of the political shifts in the climate change debates this year. It has been marked from my viewpoint of an irreverable shift from arguing with CCDs (climate change deniers) to CCSs (climate change skeptics) which on the whole has …
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 8:00 am, December 24th, 2009 - 15 comments
Reproduced with permission from Kotare – The Strategist
This is the unspoken issue with climate change. What are the human impacts of climate change. Where will the wars happen?
This study (h/t Crikey Creek) looks at the likely impact that rising temperatures, caused by climate change, will have on armed conflict in sub-Saharan Africa…
“this historical response to …
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 6:30 pm, December 22nd, 2009 - 65 comments
Information is Beautiful recently produced the image below summarizing the various arguments between about climate change. Click on the image to see the full version. hat-tip: Open Parachute
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 10:00 am, December 22nd, 2009 - 38 comments
Greenpeace executive director Kumi Naidoo makes the case that the failure of our leaders at Copenhagen means the time has come to intensify the pressure on them, including through non-violent civil disobedience and direct action.
Hat tip: Greenpeace blog.
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 7:29 am, December 22nd, 2009 - 7 comments
Could making the surface of cars rough be a cheap and esay way to boost fuel efficiency, thereby saving oil and helping tackle climate change?
The idea comes from the dimples on golf-balls, which hold a thin layer of air to the ball, lessening turbulence and drag. And, amazingly, it appears to work:
[the full segment on the car is …
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 6:09 pm, December 21st, 2009 - 25 comments
Two protests today successfully highlighted the role of New Zealand’s agricutural industry and business community in contributing to climate change.
The first protest involved a blockade of the NZ Stock Exchange entrance and resulted in nine arrests.
In the second action two activists scaled the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade for four hours …
Written By: rocky - Date published: 9:21 am, December 21st, 2009 - 89 comments
Text from John Darroch a couple of minutes ago:
hey just hanging ten stories up the mfat building in welly protesting against fonterror regarding climate change
Nice one John – according to NZPA you’re only four stories up. Hope you get your point across and make it down safely!
Great to see some action following on …
Written By: r0b - Date published: 7:47 am, December 21st, 2009 - 30 comments
I’m trying not to get too depressed about the lack of an outcome at Copenhagen. As one analyst put it – “Leaders came to Copenhagen to rewrite history and left having made a few notes in the margin”. Not good enough. However, with or without a formal agreement, it was always going …
Written By: r0b - Date published: 9:41 am, December 20th, 2009 - 99 comments
So Copenhagen has ended in failure. I’m not surprised, but I am disappointed. As The Guardian reports:
Low targets, goals dropped: Copenhagen ends in failure
Deal thrashed out at talks condemned as climate change scepticism in action
The UN climate summit reached a weak outline of a global agreement in Copenhagen tonight, falling far short of …
Written By: r0b - Date published: 8:37 am, December 19th, 2009 - 4 comments
As the final stages of diplomatic chaos play out in Copenhagen, and with at least the possibility of some truly significant goals emerging, the world is teetering on a knife edge this morning.
I hope that Obama has had plenty of time to think about this letter – reposted from SignOn:
Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of …
Written By: r0b - Date published: 3:02 pm, December 18th, 2009 - 17 comments
Words:
Prime Minister John Key has urged the world’s major economies to listen to the voices of vulnerable nations facing climate change. .. The current system of limited participation under the Kyoto Protocol had to be moved to one of “comprehensive global coverage”, he said.
“For this to be achieved we need international commitments from all major …
Written By: r0b - Date published: 7:39 am, December 18th, 2009 - 67 comments
Photograph: Christian Charisius/Reuters
Earlier in the year there was a lot of media attention on the police tactics at the G20 Summit in London. How depressing to see the same heavy handed approach being deployed in Copenhagen. A reported 100,000 protesters marched in a mostly peaceful event last Saturday, and further marches and …
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 11:30 am, December 17th, 2009 - 76 comments
Well, that could have been embarrassing. John Key on the world stage, along with leaders of other countries in what has been billed the ‘greatest debate on Earth’ had the potential to be very painful.
It goes without saying that he would have treated the whole thing as a PR event. National was already preparing the …
Written By: r0b - Date published: 11:02 am, December 17th, 2009 - 41 comments
More details here.
Written By: r0b - Date published: 10:25 am, December 16th, 2009 - 72 comments
Cartoon by Nick Anderson.
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 7:57 am, December 16th, 2009 - 54 comments
There are some very wealthy industries that make their money off burning fossil fuels and emitting greenhouse gases. It is in their financial interest to prevent action to tackle climate change, so they fund lobby groups and denier propaganda. There is a large population of ‘useful idiots‘ who soak up this propaganda and repeat it. They …
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 7:29 am, December 15th, 2009 - 91 comments
According to myth (it seems), Lenin called socialists in the West ‘useful idiots’ – people whose ideological fervour saw them accidentally aid the realpolitik aims of the USSR. Similarly, an army of useful idiots are the greenhouse polluters’ best weapon as they attempt to save their right to pollute for profit.
These are people who are …
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