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Key vs science on water quality

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:31 am, August 24th, 2016 - 60 comments

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What if there were only 34 more whitebait harvests left?

Written By: weka - Date published: 8:30 am, August 19th, 2016 - 78 comments

Water is life not merely wadeable.

July 2016 was the hottest single month recorded since 1880

Written By: Colonial Viper - Date published: 6:32 pm, August 16th, 2016 - 104 comments

July 2016 was the hottest month ever in recorded modernity.

NRT: Calling bullshit on “P-contamination”

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 2:20 pm, August 8th, 2016 - 8 comments

I/S at No Right Turn writes on meth testing, false positives, and Housing NZ.

Financial capital is crazy OP. Time to strip it back to basics.

Written By: Colonial Viper - Date published: 12:08 pm, August 8th, 2016 - 72 comments

Financial capital is way over powered in our current political economic system. Every aspect of our lives has been financialised and securitised, from our homes to our educations. From our drinking water to our power supply.

Wasted food and carbon footprint

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 12:34 pm, August 6th, 2016 - 17 comments

The Italian intiaitive encouraging supermarkets to give unsold food to those in need is a great move. Helps the poor, reduces waste, win win. But it’s just a start. We need to massively change attitudes and behaviour to reduce food waste.

Free Petrol Pt IV

Written By: Bill - Date published: 6:25 am, August 5th, 2016 - 92 comments

Part IV of IV

Free Petrol Pt III

Written By: Bill - Date published: 11:20 am, August 4th, 2016 - 25 comments

Part III of IV – a focus on road transport.

Free money from climate change deniers

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:29 pm, August 2nd, 2016 - 5 comments

Double or nothing?

Free Petrol Pt II

Written By: Bill - Date published: 6:38 pm, August 1st, 2016 - 11 comments

Part II of IV. How to achieve zero carbon from the shipping and aviation sectors by the 2030s.

Free Petrol Pt I

Written By: Bill - Date published: 1:42 pm, August 1st, 2016 - 3 comments

Part I of a IV part series of posts on what we can do to hold global warming below 2 degrees C.

Climate change pedal to the metal

Written By: Colonial Viper - Date published: 8:53 am, July 31st, 2016 - 116 comments

Avoiding 2 deg C warming is a ship that’s sailed. Global warming is now happening at about 4.3x the previous long-run rate. And it might go up to 18x the previous rate over the next few years. That’s what the pundits call “abrupt climate change.”

Chris de Freitas now is the time to be afraid

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:53 am, July 30th, 2016 - 161 comments

As the temperatures increase and the sea rises Chris de Freitas still claims that anthropogenic climate change is not a happening thing. And shows his inability to analyze by misinterpreting a Jarrod Gilbert article which describes climate change deniers as charlatans.

Predator free a fantastic goal – but…

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:02 am, July 26th, 2016 - 231 comments

Feel-good promises for 2050 are easy. Add this one to the list with a cycleway the length of NZ, a secret plan to end Japanese whaling, the War on P, our emissions reduction (hah!) targets, plans to be a “financial hub”, the promise of pandas, and so on and so on.

Climate Change on our doorsteps (literally)

Written By: weka - Date published: 2:08 pm, July 25th, 2016 - 89 comments

In the wake of Wellington’s storm over the weekend, it’s time to future proof our critical infrastructure.

Climate change and trees – a palliative and not a solution

Written By: lprent - Date published: 12:00 pm, July 20th, 2016 - 108 comments

One alleviation for the effects of climate change is to plant trees, or some other form of vegetation. This is to suck up surplus carbon dioxide and to put it into a solid and relatively inert form. And it does. However it simply won’t work when we have rapid climate change.

God Botherer

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 10:27 am, July 17th, 2016 - 462 comments

God’s been a bit of a let down recently. Is it time for Him to retire?

The Chrematistic Camel

Written By: Bill - Date published: 7:26 pm, July 4th, 2016 - 110 comments

So this post is about a suite of frameworks not to adopt if the goal is to avoid 2 degrees of global warming.

Generation Zero – Zero Carbon Act

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:11 pm, July 1st, 2016 - 151 comments

“We’re not going to wait around for our politicians to do the right thing any longer; we’re going to draft a bill ourselves with help from experts and collaborators, and work to get all political parties to support it and pass it through Parliament.”

A bit wet lately

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 12:31 pm, June 30th, 2016 - 105 comments

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It’s a Side-show, “Bob”.

Written By: Bill - Date published: 10:37 am, June 28th, 2016 - 279 comments

From the circus that never leaves town.

A Tale of Two Droughts

Written By: weka - Date published: 6:38 pm, June 22nd, 2016 - 44 comments

Climate change is now causing extreme dry weather events and is increasingly blamed for water shortages. But what we are doing on the ground has just as much influence on our experience of drought. As New Zealand farmers call for drought relief this winter, it’s time we looked at how we manage land and water, and the critical role this plays in whether humans can live with variable rainfall in the age of climate change. Here’s a stellar example from India.

Another shocking environmental record

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 10:28 am, June 21st, 2016 - 16 comments

The world’s news is full of new environmental records. Here’s a shocker.

This is what sustainable fishing looks like

Written By: weka - Date published: 10:10 am, June 15th, 2016 - 119 comments

“It turns out there will be no jobs on a dead planet.”

While New Zealand is struggling to maintain integrity around fishing and resource management, an ocean farmer in the US is leading the way in economic and ecologic sustainability. This is how we can do things differently.

Official climate change fraud

Written By: Colonial Viper - Date published: 7:39 am, June 14th, 2016 - 136 comments

Scientists and experts have been knowingly understating the unfolding climate change catastrophe to governments and decision makers. Why? For the sake of what is “politically palatable”.

Scottish Parliament votes to ban fracking.

Written By: weka - Date published: 3:14 pm, June 11th, 2016 - 60 comments

Imagine a country where the political divide is over whether to ban fracking outright or to be opposed to fracking but have a moratorium first in order to gather more evidence.

What now Paula?

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:09 am, June 7th, 2016 - 20 comments

Seeing is believing they say, and Paula Bennett says that she has taken on board the climate change message after a Pacific visit. So what now Paula? It’s a tough question for sure. But at least you’re blessed with an opposition that will cooperate, instead of trying to whip up people’s fears and obstruct progress for political gain.

Good News!

Written By: Bill - Date published: 10:41 am, June 5th, 2016 - 158 comments

May figures just out…

Vaccines DO Cause Autism Shock!

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 7:29 pm, June 2nd, 2016 - 266 comments

A young Mexican scientist has compiled compelling evidence about the link between vaccines and autism. Not only does 12 year old Marco Arturo provide a comprehensive overview of the dangers, he also brilliantly channels Barack Obama. The best two minutes on the net today.

Trump In, Bern Out, Hillary Home and Hosed?

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 11:18 am, May 27th, 2016 - 196 comments

Donald Trump has finally got the last Republican delegates need to secure his candidacy. Bernie Sanders has lost his race (but is being pressured to stand as an independent). Now that the candidates are all but confirmed, the sideshow is over. It’s Clinton vs Drumpf in the most entertaining election in a generation.