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Written By: - Date published: 1:55 pm, October 14th, 2011 - 55 comments
Labour has announced it will put a moratorium on deepsea oil drilling until it’s proven safe. Good. Basic precautionary principle. Clearly necessary given the piss-poor handling of a relatively small spill. Besides, there’s no rush to dig this stuff up. It’s not going anywhere and we can only extract it once. Will only become more valuable over time.
Written By: - Date published: 1:42 pm, October 9th, 2011 - 7 comments
It’s scary ‘coz it’s true.
Written By: - Date published: 1:25 pm, October 6th, 2011 - 71 comments
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died today at the age of 56.
Written By: - Date published: 9:47 am, October 6th, 2011 - 9 comments
The low-lying island nations of Tuvalu and Tokelau have declared water emergencies and parts of Samoa are rationing water. Climate change has raised the sea level so that what little freshwater lens the islands have has been reduced. Higher temperatures evaporate more of it. Climate change is also causing more frequent and severe La Ninas, which causes droughts.
Written By: - Date published: 9:22 am, September 29th, 2011 - 4 comments
The crime of ecocide will be tested, as if it is already law, by barristers before a judge and jury, at the UK Supreme Court in London.
Written By: - Date published: 12:15 pm, September 23rd, 2011 - 7 comments
Moving Planet is a worldwide rally to demand solutions to the climate crisis. It is being held on 24th September 2011 – a day to move beyond fossil fuels. Check out an event near you…
Written By: - Date published: 11:34 am, September 22nd, 2011 - 39 comments
Written By: - Date published: 11:01 am, September 20th, 2011 - 74 comments
Written By: - Date published: 1:50 pm, September 19th, 2011 - 49 comments
We’re going to need a lot of innovation to survive the coming decades. Today’s innovation is a simple modification that at least doubles the energy output of a wind turbine. Brilliant.
Written By: - Date published: 12:20 pm, September 16th, 2011 - 14 comments
When it comes to making any kind of effort to saving the planet from catastrophic climate change I guess being even a “fast follower” was just a little too ambitious for the Key government.
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, September 16th, 2011 - 57 comments
When the Nats say they must cut early childhood education funding – remember their new $500m subsidy to polluters.
When the Nats say they have to cut women’s refuge money – remember their new $500m subsidy to polluters.
When the Nats say they have to sell our assets to pay their debt – remember their new $500m subsidy to polluters.
Written By: - Date published: 10:23 am, September 12th, 2011 - 46 comments
National promised to close the wage gap with Australia, and stop the flow of people across the ditch. Instead they’ve not just massively increased the wage gap and the number of people fleeing the country, they’re now forcing our best and brightest out.
Written By: - Date published: 7:26 am, September 9th, 2011 - 63 comments
If a corporation can have the legal rights of a person, why can’t the environment can’t have the legal protections of a person too?
Written By: - Date published: 10:31 am, August 31st, 2011 - 39 comments
National’s Energy Strategy has been roundly criticised. The promises of more renewables and energy efficiency are more ‘aspirational’ fluff with no plan to actually get there. And, worse, the heart of the strategy works against sustainability and environmental responsibility – it’s all about drilling up and burning more oil. I/S at NoRightTurn explains.
Written By: - Date published: 7:23 am, August 30th, 2011 - 53 comments
Irene is yet another example of the significant increase in extreme weather that we’re seeing all around the globe. But this warning will be ignored like all the rest.
Written By: - Date published: 12:00 pm, August 29th, 2011 - 32 comments
We know that our carbon pollution is damaging the climate – making the atmosphere warmer and less stable – but it also makes the sea more acidic. Ocean Acidification means the aquaculture industry could be in big trouble by the middle of the century, not to mention the rest of the fishing industry. But the government blithely ignores the problem.
Written By: - Date published: 9:51 am, August 28th, 2011 - 44 comments
What provokes a populace to take to the streets in violent uprising? Is it the inexorable power of a demand for justice and democracy? Or is it something much simpler than that…
Written By: - Date published: 11:01 am, August 21st, 2011 - 11 comments
Peter Sinclair has been putting out great videos for years on climate change as Climate Crock of the Week. They focus on having a close look at climate change deniers claims. The following video looks at a series of talking heads claiming that the world is cooling. Such a pity that their own favorite crank …
Written By: - Date published: 9:35 am, August 21st, 2011 - 19 comments
This is the kind of innovation and intelligence that we are going to need in abundance to survive the medium to long term future…
Written By: - Date published: 9:31 am, August 8th, 2011 - 60 comments
We commonly hear the vested interests (Fed Farmers, National, Fonterra) saying that agriculture should continue to get a 100% subsidy on its greenhouse emissions because there’s no way for farmers to reduce their pollution aside from producing less. That’s rubbish. In fact, as BR shows, agriculture is already producing more value for less pollution.
Written By: - Date published: 11:00 am, August 2nd, 2011 - 20 comments
I/S reviews the ETS so far. It has worked, as Labour promised, to bring down emissions – helped by the recession. But don’t forget there are still massive subsidies for the emissions that are happening thanks to National’s changes. It’s nuts that you and I are forking out so that foreign-owned factories can spew out carbon dioxide on a more profitable basis.
Written By: - Date published: 12:44 pm, August 1st, 2011 - 40 comments
It is one of the failures of our society that far too many young people are politically disengaged or apathetic. Many – but not all! Meet Generation Zero. Please go visit their website, join up, or spread the word…
Written By: - Date published: 10:21 am, July 24th, 2011 - 34 comments
I think our exploration of space is effectively over. The end of the shuttle programme is the end of that era.
Written By: - Date published: 9:45 am, July 17th, 2011 - 74 comments
Local climate change deniers want to organise a debate featuring visiting “celebrity” Christopher Monckton. I’m all for scientific debate of course. But you can’t have such a debate with Monckton, because he’s a serial liar.
Written By: - Date published: 7:54 am, July 16th, 2011 - 30 comments
I’ve been impressed with Labour on both sides of the ditch lately. Here of course Phil Goff’s Labour party has moved very boldly on the CGT. But across the ditch in Oz, Labor leader and PM Julia Gillard is fighting an even tougher battle on carbon pricing. Go Gillard!
Written By: - Date published: 10:17 am, July 12th, 2011 - 112 comments
A feasible plan to power 100 percent of the planet with complete renewables exists. This plan excludes Nuclear and Biofuels, which the Scientific American authors of this plan also considered to be ultimately unsustainable technologies as well. Instead this plan revolves around Wind, Water and Solar – WWS
Written By: - Date published: 1:06 pm, July 9th, 2011 - Comments Off
Comedy duo Armstrong and Miller (who has a degree in quantum physics) take on climate change deniers and do-nothingers with disarming humour.
Written By: - Date published: 8:19 am, July 3rd, 2011 - 41 comments
Bravo France, the first country in the world to ban fracking. But for every step forward in this world, we seem to take two steps backwards…
Written By: - Date published: 11:21 am, June 25th, 2011 - 18 comments
The snows haven’t come and the ski industry is in trouble. Is it a “cruel blow” from mother nature?
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