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Alberta burning

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:29 am, May 8th, 2016 - 31 comments

The Canadian wildfire is “unprecedented” in its size and ferocity. There have been mass evacuations, and whole suburbs burnt out. Wildfires have doubled in Canada since the early 70’s – “And we’ve published work that states that this is because of human-caused climate change.”

Climate Change Change Pt 1: What are we waiting for?

Written By: Guest post - Date published: 9:20 am, May 3rd, 2016 - 48 comments

Before government spending cuts there was The Riot for Austerity, a grass roots Climate Change movement that showed how it was possible for ordinary people to change and significantly reduce their carbon emissions without someone forcing them to.

Maybe stop dropping it…

Written By: Bill - Date published: 11:28 am, May 2nd, 2016 - 151 comments

…the hot potato – stop dropping it. Maybe grow the fuck up and react intelligently to the blindingly obvious.

Herald editorial nails Government over climate change inaction

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:49 am, April 28th, 2016 - 31 comments

The Herald castigated the Government over its inaction over climate change in an editorial released this morning.

RSNZ report – Transition to a low-carbon economy

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 11:43 am, April 27th, 2016 - 30 comments

Today the Royal Society of NZ released the second of two reports into climate change and the actions NZ should be taking. Great work. Now all we need is great action.

NRT: This is what happens if you don’t have a plan

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 3:23 pm, April 26th, 2016 - 4 comments

I/S at No Right Turn on the renewables target and futility of targets without plans.

NZ – The underarm bowlers of climate change

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:34 am, April 23rd, 2016 - 18 comments

NZ under the Key government has hit new depths of ignominy as per capita the world’s biggest climate change cheat. And we plan to keep using the fraudulent “credits” we have purchased.

Who is behind the New Zealand Initiative?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:02 am, April 22nd, 2016 - 201 comments

The New Zealand Initiative has produced a research paper attacking the proposal for a sugar tax. But who is it and who is it speaking on behalf of?

Going electric

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:40 am, April 19th, 2016 - 70 comments

Old Zeeland showing New Zealand the way.

Climate change – that ship has sailed

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:55 am, April 18th, 2016 - 57 comments

Our models and our plans for responding to climate change are already out of date.

Goodbye.

Written By: Bill - Date published: 1:20 pm, April 1st, 2016 - 103 comments

South Dunedin, Lower Hutt, Christchurch, Napier…

Global elite plan their escape from “pleb masses”

Written By: Colonial Viper - Date published: 11:03 am, March 29th, 2016 - 35 comments

So, Key has now come out and revealed to us how afraid the global oligarch class (and their well paid professional enablers) are. They appear to have no plans to reverse their activites to make things better for us.

Key wants to turn New Zealand into a haven for the 1%

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:30 am, March 29th, 2016 - 95 comments

Fran O’Sullivan has spilt the beans. John Key thinks that overseas terrorism and by implication climate change are good for the New Zealand economy and that the country should not do anything about overseas corporates paying low tax rates because investment will occur. And he wants New Zealand to become a haven for people overseas fleeing from terrorism and climate change. But only if they are wealthy.

Don’t extend polluting Huntly power station!

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 11:09 am, March 21st, 2016 - 134 comments

Power companies are trying to back out of the previously announced commitment to shut down the fossil fueled power plants at Huntly.

Greenpeace action – live

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:11 am, March 21st, 2016 - 17 comments

Greenpeace: We are live at the oil industry conference in Auckland. Through non-violent peaceful civil disobedience, we intend to send the strongest message we can that New Zealand must join the global fight to quit oil and meet the greatest challenge of our time – climate change.

National tricky on climate change aid

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:27 am, March 19th, 2016 - 10 comments

TVOne has discovered that National’s preposed climate change aid spend announced at COP21 would result in a reduction in the amount spent compared to previous years.

Greenpeace day of action on Climate Change

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:55 am, March 18th, 2016 - 6 comments

Greenpeace is planning a day of peaceful civil disobedience in support of real climate change action this Monday March 21. And big oil has a conference at Sky City in Auckland on that date.

National admits the ETS is broken

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:04 am, March 18th, 2016 - 12 comments

Paula Bennett has conceded that the Emissions Trading Scheme is not working and that the two for one scheme which halves the cost of carbon credits for major polluters will be phased out. But when?

Key fiddles while dairy industry burns

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:27 am, March 16th, 2016 - 46 comments

The dairy crisis is escalating with a further drop in prices occurring overnight. And John Key has chosen to defend the Government’s handling of the crisis by attacking Andrew Little. He would be better off explaining what his Government is doing to address what is becoming a crisis.

February breaks all records

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:36 am, March 15th, 2016 - 93 comments

The evidence that we have significantly underestimated the speed of climate change is mounting steadily.

Jeanette Fitzsimons calls to scrap the emissions trading scheme

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:12 am, March 5th, 2016 - 13 comments

When National took over in 2008 they gutted the Emissions Trading Scheme, and now we’re at the point where it is used to launder essentially fraudulent carbon credits. Jeanette Fitzsimons has reached the obvious conclusion.

David Seymour thinks ACT is the environmental party

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:30 am, February 27th, 2016 - 72 comments

David Seymour will at ACT’s conference today outline why ACT and not the Greens is the real environmental party.

the Global Death Economy

Written By: Colonial Viper - Date published: 10:15 am, February 25th, 2016 - 141 comments

A new edition of “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” has been released. It makes it clear that we are in the grip of a global “Death Economy” and a collective embrace of ‘Thanatos’, the death instinct.

Cyclone Winston

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:12 am, February 21st, 2016 - 8 comments

Cyclone Winston is the strongest ever southern hemisphere storm. Fiji has been hit hard.

Syria escalating

Written By: Colonial Viper - Date published: 12:37 pm, February 14th, 2016 - 37 comments

Turkey has started shelling the US backed Kurdish forces that are fighting against ISIS. What could go wrong?

Corporate Saviours

Written By: Bill - Date published: 12:37 pm, February 12th, 2016 - 66 comments

oh, hallelujah…

The battle over climate change continues

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 3:28 pm, February 11th, 2016 - 21 comments

Two recent international incidents show that the resistance to meaningful action on climate change has not given up. In the USA Barak Obama’s climate change policies are under attack in the Supreme Court. And in Australia CSIRO has decided to get rid of all of its climate change scientists.

Government U turn on inner city rail link

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:49 pm, January 27th, 2016 - 40 comments

John Key has announced that National will bring forward funding of Auckland’s inner city rail link. The decision is welcome but it should have been made years ago.

The great big list of John Key’s big fat lies (UPDATED)

Written By: BLiP - Date published: 7:00 am, January 27th, 2016 - 79 comments

How many more lies will John Key tell today in his so-called State of the Nation address? Virtual chocolate fish to whomever guesses the closest number.

Bob Carter Dies

Written By: lprent - Date published: 10:14 pm, January 23rd, 2016 - 13 comments

Veteran Climate Science Denialist Bob Carter Dies of Heart Attack

Bob Carter has died. To most members of the general public, the name of that Australian geologist and paleontologist will barely register a flicker of neurons in the temporal lobe. But to the global community of professional and amateur climate science denialists, misinformers and opponents of climate policy, Carter was an influential giant. He died, aged… (more…)

NZ participating in climate fraud

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:15 am, January 23rd, 2016 - 52 comments

An article that appeared on December 26th in the Dom Post is much too important to be left languishing in the Christmas news vacuum. “We [NZ] have been the biggest abuser of fraudulent carbon credits. Someone should be answerable as an accessory to the fraud.”