Apologies, I missed an embedded link in the Energy Budget excerpt, and the two (duplicate) links in "atmospheric CO2 is 427.53 ppm", where one would do. Will try to limit the number of links in future.
In recent decades human activities have resulted in a significant imbalance between the energy spaceship Earth absorbs from the sun, and the energy it loses to space. This imbalance is causing spaceship Earth to heat up. New Delhi records highest-ever ...
Several global warming models predict 1.5˚C of above pre-industrial temperatures by 2030, and +2˚C by 2050 - think positive. https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-what-record-global-heat-means-for-breaching-the-1-5c-warming-limit/ Florida flooding puts ...
Love and limits Parents have many hopes and dreams for their children’s futures. These might include getting on well with others and having friends; doing well at school; getting a good job; being able to cope with life’s challenges; contributing to the ...
TBH, it's a mystery to me why it's so important for you to believe that poverty is the greatest risk factor for people killing babies. Really B, there's no need to resort to bad faith arguments - I think you know I haven't asserted "that poverty is the ...
Poverty doesn't make people kill their babies. Thousands of poor families have loving parents who put their kids first every time. The vast majority of people/parents, loving or otherwise, don't kill (their) babies, but consensus expert opinion has it ...
The question I'd like to see from any party is: how do we generate more multimillionaires not fewer? Little ol' NZ is apparently up there (#5 of 48 countries listed) when it comes to the percentage of Kiwis who are millionaires (~9.6%). Some might say ...
...!") was wallowing in it, and M Scott @8.1 led with...
Thank you.
But, apparently, it doesn't take a Village to murder one. Absolutely B - there but for the grace of god go you or I eh - makes one think. The house that built Jack [8 May 2012] "Thank you, Jack, for also showing us exactly why we, and all of New Zealand, ...
Apologies for all that bold text at the end - only this headline should be in bold: Latest official child poverty measures: 2022/23
If those charged in these cases choose to remain silent every adult in the house should be charged with manslaughter. Not Good Enough. Charge every adult in Te Kūiti - it takes a village to raise a child. "The Government cannot do this on its own. But the...
This is a serious problem for the Coalition, bubbling under but will soon come to the boil. Hope it becomes an extremely painful boil on our CoC govt's backside - they may have misjudged voter appetite for watering down environmental protections, but the ...
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/513461/government-funding-ends-for-15-year-long-growing-up-in-new-zealand-project https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/04/stats-nz-scraps-survey-gathering-key-child-poverty-data/ How to get cross-party support for funding ...
Are you saying that the Opposition is impotent due to circumstance? Yes, largely impotent - there being few opportunities to mitigate (the effects of) govt shit (policies), due to the circumstance of being in opposition and (to quote Belladonna) "the ...
They left out landlords ? Who's doing well? Power companies, dairy farmers, boomers, Queenstown, crypto funds, banks, landLords... The landlords are all Boomers? All? Very unlikely - why do you ask? "Boomers are doing fine," Zollner said. "They are more ...
Our government has changed, so (of necessity ) shitty (regressive) short-term 'planning' has gone up a gear - gotta absorb billions in tax relief to landLords somehow. By the time the shit really hits the fan/polls, current govt MPs will be planning their ...
A new ruling says countries – including NZ – must take action on climate change under the law of the sea [2 June 2024] The tribunal’s answer was an emphatic yes. This means countries, including New Zealand, must now address climate change under both the ...
Thanks, interesting video about the Tories, Keir Starmer and the state of UK politics. It's created a kind of government which is not in the interests of our national life, never in the interests of the poor. We need a moral reformation in our national ...
Interestingly, it is absent from the coalition agreement with the ACT Party. With a knick knack, paddy whack Give Sey-mour a bone No new drugs Our budget's blown Associate Ministers of Health Seynour and Costello will have plenty to say about this, as ...
Jones (and the deputy PM) are Luxon's headache now - it must be "Hell in there!" NZ First Minister Shane Jones says he doesn't know or care about tobacco industry transparency rules [7 March 2024] Jones is among government ministers whose links to the ...
We know that, from time-to-time, J Swap find themselves in various "kinds of binds". He [J Swap environment manager Dudley Clemens] said the company welcomed the Fast Track Bill, "which provides new and fresh ideas to disrupt these kinds of binds that we ...
Getting NZ Back on Track (link to an Emmerson cartoon) https://cloudfront-ap-southeast-2.images.arcpublishing.com/nzme/QNAJHC2ACZGPXCDCFB6JCTBFWA.jpg Just the one asking for some evidence that the opposition has a plan to do this. They had a plan in ...
While they were in opposition, did Nat/ACT/NZF have policies for securing the future of our vital North-South Island link for passengers and freight? And what's our CoC govt's plan now? Budget 2024 opinion: Coalition gives Cook Strait the cold shoulder [30...
"Fake news" Meanwhile, m'lady Willis has acknowledged "not everyone will get HUUUGE amounts of money out of the tax relief" [RNZ 9 am news @2 minutes] - I wonder what Willis feels constitutes "huge amounts of money", and just how many Kiwis are in line to ...
Heh - "a-hole".
So how much do you feel the tax should be? I'm keen on the Green / TPM wealth taxes - would be under their thresholds. If not a wealth tax, then maybe a 45% tax rate on income over A$190,001. Given an exchange rate of ~92 Australian cents to the NZ$, our ...
$800,000 @ 8.9% = $71,200 $728,800 - awful - how does one even survive on such a pittance? Surprised these Kiwis haven't buggered off - what's keeping them here? Why poverty in New Zealand is everyone's concern Liang describes poverty as a "heritable ...
"We're all in it together." - Lady Willis We're 'in it', all right, but 'together'? Really, m'lady, surely you jest. Cost of landlord tax break increased by $800m to $2.9b King Luxon: Chow down landLords - let's get your income back on track. The Side Eye...
Don't know about policy (I'm not a member of any political party) - wouldn't any previous policy now be in tatters thanks to Willis' decision? Still, a google suggests the Green party's transport spokesperson would be keen for the project to continue, ...
The whole place was pervaded by an Ivory tower stench of misandry to my nose. What Aurelius could have done/been with your nose for misandry The Stage does not change – only the players ….. The 'players' have changed, rapidly, and are redesigning the set ...
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