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Polity: Bonza

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 11:56 am, November 17th, 2014 - 39 comments

Poor old Tony Abbott. Thrust into the limelight of hosting the world’s biggest economic meeting, and his true colours come out for everyone to see. Not a happy weekend for Tony Abbott and, by extension, for Australia. Perhaps “bumpkin” would be a better title

Why does the right control the English speaking world?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:31 am, November 16th, 2014 - 116 comments

Jason Wilson in the Guardian has asked a very relevant question. Why is the right currently dominant in the English speaking Western World and what does the left have to do to change this?

Nats’ climate negligence

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:35 am, November 13th, 2014 - 39 comments

Yesterday was a big day for climate news, highlighting yet again the irresponsible negligence of this National government.

Hot Topic: Climate documentary Thin Ice raising money for US broadcast

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 2:21 pm, November 10th, 2014 - 7 comments

Thin Ice, the superb documentary about climate science and scientists filmed and produced by New Zealand and British climate scientists, has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to finance a new edit of the film so that it can be shown on public TV in the US. 14 days to go and they need a bit more cash.

“Marching in the streets”

Written By: karol - Date published: 5:15 pm, November 8th, 2014 - 129 comments

Thousands of people protested and marched around the country against the secret and anti-democratic TPPA negotiations. Reports & pics. Updated

One News promoted climate crank

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 10:54 am, November 5th, 2014 - 183 comments

After a strong reaction, TVNZ has taken down video and an article featuring a climate change denialist crank.

About climate change …

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 1:11 pm, November 3rd, 2014 - 162 comments

The IPCC has released a further report refining previous research and announcing with practical certainty that climate change is happening because of the production of greenhouse gasses. It proposes that we stop burning fossil fuels, and change the electricity generation system so that by 2050 the vast bulk of the world’s power is produced by renewable means. The diagnosis is clear as are the remedies. And meanwhile Tim Groser thinks the Greens are to blame for the recent drop in the milk price …

Responding to our greatest threat

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:02 am, October 17th, 2014 - 23 comments

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Answering climate change myths

Written By: lprent - Date published: 6:08 pm, October 4th, 2014 - 10 comments

I ran across this youtube video “Thirteen misconceptions about global warming” handling the basic myths used by our climate change dummies. Perhaps they should watch it before I and others have to waste too much of our time rubbishing their inane ideas.

Pick up the ball

Written By: Guest post - Date published: 10:53 am, September 28th, 2014 - 30 comments

In the spirit of new badly needed Left Unity. The Left opposition needs to start setting the agenda. First “feed the kids” needs to be picked up. Second the corporate welfare for Solid Energy needs a lot of scrutiny. So does the the state funding of oil exploration.

For all our futures

Written By: karol - Date published: 7:13 pm, September 23rd, 2014 - 16 comments

With massive demonstrations across the world urging the UN & governments to do very much more to counter climate change, Al Jazeera’s Inside Story covers the demos and examines the issues.

The tweets are alive….

Written By: karol - Date published: 9:48 am, September 19th, 2014 - 5 comments

… with pre-election day fervour. It’s an election that’s going down to the wire. The energy is there for the left to keep talking to people, and to encourage as many as possible to get out and vote. It’s Suffrage Day – reporting via the telegraph in 1893 to the internet today. On-going updates

Greens buoyant

Written By: karol - Date published: 5:53 pm, September 18th, 2014 - 14 comments

John Key & National’s empty facade – its lack of vision for NZ – has been exposed. Opposition parties have continued to campaign positively, focusing on people, fairness, & the environment. [Update] NZ Herald video

Debate tonight: Climate Voter

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 4:36 pm, September 3rd, 2014 - 41 comments

Climate Voter is streaming a debate between the major parties tonight at 7pm.

Thriving children, liveable communities & sustainable resources

Written By: karol - Date published: 11:00 am, July 25th, 2014 - 14 comments

The Green Party’s election focus is on reducing poverty & inequalities (highlighting its impact on children), and developing sustainable communities. 2 recently announced policies are under-pinned by 2 crises: poverty/inequality; and the destruction of our environment (climate change, resource depletion).

Dear Greenpeace – difficult cases make bad law

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:06 pm, July 15th, 2014 - 55 comments

Greenpeace has been told by the Electoral Commission that its Climate Voter Website requires third party authorisation and that a cap on the amount that can be spent applies. There is an exception in the law if the site is a “news media” site which is paradoxically the same defence Cameron Slater is running in his case against Matt Blomfield justifying his refusal to disclose who his informant is. The sense of irony is strong here …

NRT: Climate Voter

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 12:41 pm, June 25th, 2014 - 33 comments

On Monday, an alliance of environmental organisations launched the Climate Voter campaign. The aim is to get people to signal their intention to vote on the basis of climate change policy, in the hope of driving parties to compete for that bloc of support. I think this is a good thing. At the same time, it needs to get a lot more people to sign up for it to have the sort of impact it wants. These mass-signalling exercises can work. So, if you care about the climate, sign up.

NRT: Climate change: A carbon tax in action

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:04 am, June 12th, 2014 - 5 comments

The Greens promised to scrap the gutted and ineffective ETS and replace it with a carbon tax. National immediately claimed that the sky would fall if we stopped subsidising polluters and allowing them to rort us. But where it is used it has done exactly what it was designed to do: reduce emissions while lowering taxes on ordinary people. National just likes polluters?

xkcd: 4.5 degrees

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:45 pm, June 10th, 2014 - 67 comments

Without prompt, aggressive limits on CO₂ emissions, the Earth will likely warm by an average of 4-5°c by the century’s end.
How big a change is that?

Climate change – ETS or Carbon tax?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:43 pm, June 4th, 2014 - 71 comments

The media is trying to suggest that Labour is opposing the Green’s proposed Carbon Tax policy. This is a gross over dramatisation of the situation. Labour has in the past supported a Carbon Tax, has a policy formation process which prevents policy creation on the hoof, and prefers an ETS even though it is slightly more complex on the basis that it is slightly more effective in allocating costs and benefits across the board.

The Green’s climate change policy

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:03 pm, June 2nd, 2014 - 129 comments

The Greens have released their climate change policy and are proposing that the ETS is scrapped and a carbon tax imposed in its place. This is a proposal that in the past Labour has supported. The ETS was only agreed to because New Zealand First would not agree to a carbon tax. Second time lucky?

The Greens and the Emissions Trading Scheme

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:21 am, June 1st, 2014 - 228 comments

Russel Norman is tipped today to announce the proposed scrapping of the ETS. It is clear that it is not working. But what do we do instead?

NRT: Climate change: Point of no return

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:18 pm, May 14th, 2014 - 26 comments

As has been long anticipated under current conditions, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet *will* melt with a more than average 3 metre rise in world sea levels. The only remaining question is how long it will take to melt. No Right Turn explains points out the slowly unfolding disaster…

NRT: Climate change: Action is affordable

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 11:56 am, April 15th, 2014 - 34 comments

Catastrophic climate change can be averted without sacrificing living standards according to a UN report, which concludes that the transformation required to a world of clean energy is eminently affordable. “It doesn’t cost the world to save the planet,”. The average cost of adapting to climate change next year is less than $30. Remember that next time Bill English stands up in Parliament threatening economic Armageddon if we try and do anything about it.

National thinks the best approach to climate change is adaption

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:10 am, April 9th, 2014 - 90 comments

National is starting to talk about adaption to climate change rather than addressing greenhouse gas output. And greenhouse gas output is projected to increase in New Zealand by 50% over the next decade.

Drill baby drill

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:12 am, April 3rd, 2014 - 40 comments

Two days after the IPCC has warned us of the threat posed by climate change and Simon Bridges has announced a huge block offer of parts of New Zealand and much of its territorial water. This will include the pristine waters off Auckland’s west coast, home of Maui’s dolphin. In a world that has to address its consumption of petroleum you have to question if it is worth the risk.

NRT: Climate change: “Adaptation”

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:45 am, April 2nd, 2014 - 51 comments

No Right Turn notes the typical response from politicians to the Fifth IPCC Assessment report. Perhaps that promoting legislation with a penalty of long prison terms for political negligence would help? It sounds like a good way for lazy politicians to retire. After all the law recognises negligence as being a criminal action in other spheres – why not for our political servants?

Act thinks the IPCC is scaremongering

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:38 am, April 1st, 2014 - 65 comments

The latest IPCC report has been released and not only are scientific views on the existence of climate change hardening, but the effects are becoming more pronounced. Meanwhile ACT has described action to try and save the planet as “moral exhibitionism” and has said that not improving the ETS is a bottom line for any future coalition with National. If you need any reason to work to get rid of this Government this has to be it.

NRT: Climate change: War, disease, and famine

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:01 pm, March 18th, 2014 - 38 comments

The biggest single threat to civilisation from human initiated CO2 forced climate change is going to be in food production and distribution. In a leaked version of the IPCC’s AR5 second volume ” the report predicts that climate change will reduce median crop yields by 2 per cent per decade for the rest of the century – at a time of rapidly growing demand for food.”