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Paula Bennett, Climate Change Minister?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:27 am, December 8th, 2015 - 68 comments

Despite having no scientific background, no relevant experience and no related portfolios Paula Bennett is the new Minister in charge of Climate Change Issues.

Hard Numbers to Remember.

Written By: Bill - Date published: 7:00 am, December 8th, 2015 - 32 comments

This post is essentially a distillation of two presentations given by Kevin Anderson at the Earth 101 gathering in Iceland earlier this year. You can view them here and here I highly recommend that you do as they are packed with high quality, no nonsense information. For those who don’t know, Kevin Anderson was the director of the Tyndall Centre, the UK’s leading academic climate change research organization and is a professor of energy and climate change in the School of Mechanical, Aeronautical and Civil Engineering at the University of Manchester.

The Anthropocene

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:35 am, December 7th, 2015 - 21 comments

Heavy flooding in Chennai and the North of England is the latest in a long line of recent extreme weather events. Welcome to the Anthropocene.

Rabblerave: New Zealand’s Next Top Model Politician

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:00 am, December 6th, 2015 - 33 comments

Invisiphilia analyses events of last week where environmental collective responsibility is finally gaining control over neo-liberalist philosophy and the old notion of an environmentalist being a sandal wearing, mong bean eaters has finally been given a decent burial.

TiSA reduces COP21 to a charade

Written By: BLiP - Date published: 10:04 am, December 5th, 2015 - 13 comments

That National Ltd™ is currently in the process of giving away New Zealand’s sovereignty in areas such as energy resources and related regulations, explains its contempt for the environment and the talking down of expectations regarding climate change.

Helen Clark on A Zero-Carbon Future

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:10 am, December 5th, 2015 - 48 comments

Good piece by Helen Clark on Huff Post: “Paris must be a catalyst for stepped up climate action. The world must move towards a zero-carbon future. There is no room for short-sightedness or a lack of ambition.”

Morgan on Key’s climate change cheat

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:33 am, December 4th, 2015 - 29 comments

Gareth Morgan calls Key out as a climate change cheat, and concludes that “We are dangerously close to being laughed out of Paris”.

Dunedin leads the way

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 4:14 pm, December 3rd, 2015 - 7 comments

On carbon emissions I don’t have any hope for NZ under National, which is still stuck in a stupid fossil fuel mentality. I do have hope for the people, organisations, and regions within NZ who are collectively taking action. And I’m proud that my home of Dunedin is leading the way.

Mopping up the fossil fuels subsidy shame

Written By: BLiP - Date published: 8:08 am, December 3rd, 2015 - 17 comments

McClay said he could not answer the specific question because he had “been advised” no such data exists.

How convenient.

The great greenhouse gas research funding switcherooni

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:56 am, December 2nd, 2015 - 19 comments

John Key has announced an increase in funding on research into the reduction of agricultural emissions of greenhouse gasses of $20 million over four years or $5 million a year. Which is the amount the Government cut from this research two months ago.

The official New Zealand COP21 negotiating guide

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:00 am, December 1st, 2015 - 13 comments

The Youth Delegation at COP 21 has secured a copy of the Government’s negotiation guide and has published it …

The ALP’s climate change emissions reduction target

Written By: advantage - Date published: 9:04 am, November 30th, 2015 - 10 comments

The Australian Labor Party will today announce its goals for emissions reduction with a plan for zero carbon emissions by 2050.

House arrest for Paris activists

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 11:24 am, November 29th, 2015 - 21 comments

Why are the so called leaders meeting at COP21 so afraid of public demonstrations? Let the people have their say…

Jarrod Gilbert 1 – Windmills 0

Written By: BLiP - Date published: 7:09 am, November 29th, 2015 - 22 comments

About time the Police got around to becoming a “very evidence based” service. Building great relationships with academia is a sensible way to start.

NZ Weather Report (2050)

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:04 am, November 28th, 2015 - 14 comments

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Jarrod Gilbert is tilting at windmills

Written By: BLiP - Date published: 7:33 am, November 27th, 2015 - 38 comments

The Official Information Act is now moribund and access to information beyond its scope is granted only to a chosen few and under strict conditions.

The People’s Climate March – Saturday or Sunday

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:03 am, November 27th, 2015 - 204 comments

With just days to go before the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21) it is time for we the people to make our voices heard. See the list of People’s Climate March events around the country this weekend – most are on Saturday, some are on Sunday.

Why the ETS Review needs to include agriculture

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:10 am, November 25th, 2015 - 26 comments

John Key has stated that within three to four years New Zealand’s scientists will have a solution for agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. If this is correct why has the Government just released a discussion paper on the ETS ruling out agricultural emissions because there are no practical technologies available to reduce them?

Greenpeace – Climb It Change – protest

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 3:39 pm, November 24th, 2015 - 33 comments

This morning Greenpeace activists occupied a NIWA oil and gas exploration vessel. #ClimbItChange

Blueskin Bay

Written By: advantage - Date published: 10:30 am, November 24th, 2015 - 28 comments

The Blueskin Bay settlement north of Dunedin provides an example of people working collectively at a local level to live sustainably.

The People’s climate march

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:19 am, November 22nd, 2015 - 41 comments

Nationwide protest marches are planned in New Zealand on November 28 in the run up to the Paris Climate Change talks to give the message to world leaders that real action to address climate change is required.

The future is not going to be an Ecotopia

Written By: Colonial Viper - Date published: 1:38 pm, November 20th, 2015 - 71 comments

The way to keep people occupied during this period of “Pretend and Extend” is to keep a steady stream of establishment fairytales (and horror stories) flowing.

National willfully stupidly blind on climate change

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:01 am, November 20th, 2015 - 98 comments

As the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment warns of the risks of sea level rises and recommends action, National are clear that they will take none. They are determined to leave all the risks and costs of climate change to future governments.

The third Industrial Revolution

Written By: advantage - Date published: 7:30 am, November 19th, 2015 - 107 comments

The Paris climate change talks will force leaders to confront climate change and the threat of terrorism at the same time. Can they show the same determination to deal with the gradual but inevitable threat of climate change as they purport to show to deal with the immediate threat of terrorism.