Yes it is

Written By: - Date published: 1:56 pm, May 31st, 2015 - 53 comments
Categories: climate change, global warming - Tags: ,

53 comments on “Yes it is ”

  1. Yep we face 10,000 years worth of methane lifetimes in the next TEN. That is what getting to 400 ppm CO2 in about 1.7% of the time it has taken in the past will produce, as the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, the clatherates (?), and the Tundra are only just starting to catch up with 400 ppm.

    The numbers of people dying of heat stroke are way under the actual real deaths, they don’t include heat induced heart attacks for one thing. And I just learnt if you don’t cool down at night it gets worse the next day, so the deaths could go exponential ?
    I read 80,000 died in Europe in 2003, surly that would mean at least 100,000 Indians?

    • RedLogix 1.1

      And I just learnt if you don’t cool down at night it gets worse the next day, so the deaths could go exponential ?

      Yes from experience this is true. If it doesn’t drop below say about 30 degC by midnight the body doesn’t recover and over a period of about a week the stress builds. By the end of two weeks with daytime temperatures in the 40’s and night-times in the 30’s or worse, and the elderly, infirm or vulnerable start dying in mass numbers. Even healthy adults start to struggle.

      I’ve long believed that this is will be the first and most compelling sign of climate change – that some areas of the world will experience extreme heat-waves that will kill of millions within a matter of days.

      It will just take one or two such events and suddenly entire areas of the planet will have to be abandoned.

      • Colonial Rawshark 1.1.1

        India is labouring horrendously from the heat at the moment. The suffering must be hideous.

        • schwen 1.1.1.1

          it’s a problem of their own making. If they want to dig up and burn the amount of coal they do, well, there are repercussions and consequences…..

          • Colonial Rawshark 1.1.1.1.1

            Just remember that in the last 100 years it has been the UK and USA and other western countries who have burnt the most fossil fuels, on the way to becoming rich and powerful.

            • maui 1.1.1.1.1.1

              Yep, and if the rich western countries had any sense they would be throwing their expertise and money behind getting developing countries off fossil fuels as quickly as possible. The west has done very nicely using cheap labour from the third world, time to pay something back at least.. We’re all in this together after all.

              • the pigman

                I was gonna say this particular poster has been posting some pretty colourful non-sequiturs in the past week or so (I wondered whether it was some kinda bot-auto-posting thingy), but perhaps Mr. Wolfgang is more on point than any of us could imagine 😉

                • Anne

                  I’m sure I saw a couple of ‘very strange” responses from this ‘Wolfgang’ a few hours ago and then they disappeared. It is either a disturbed individual or as you say the pigman some kinda bot-auto posting thingy. Whatever, it would be nice if he/she/it was bundled off permanently into the ether.

                  Oops – its gone again?

                  • Spam, Anne. Well, for the most part.There’s screeds of it and it’s weirdly compelling. Like a Burroughs cut up of a Jeremy Kyle Show transcript.

      • Draco T Bastard 1.1.2

        It will just take one or two such events and suddenly entire areas of the planet will have to be abandoned.

        IMO, the equator won’t be habitable by humans sometime mid-century. This means that there will be hundreds of millions of people looking to migrate to cooler climes and there’s really nowhere for them to go without over-stressing the local environment and that’s without the stress that climate change will have on that environment.

        The Guardian article tells me that that migration will be starting soon if it hasn’t already.

    • dukeofurl 2.1

      They are saying:
      “Gasparrini and colleagues4 report that, first, cold-related deaths outnumbered heat-related deaths by a factor of nearly 20, overall. Second, deaths attributable to moderately non-optimum temperatures substantially outnumbered those attributable to extreme temperatures”

      I could think of a number of medical reasons why the deaths are skewed to cold rather than hot.
      Then, you have a very hot day followed by a cooler night, but when you have a very cold day, the night might not be much colder ?

    • Murray Simmonds 2.2

      Thanks, Poission – useful links.

      My interpretation of this is is that when it gets too hot you can always go stand under a cold shower. or leap into the nearest water-hole, river, lake, swimming pool , bathtup or whatever to cool down. (Unless others beat you to it first). This tends on the whole to be roughly true regardless of your socioeconomic status.

      When it gets too cold however, energy is required to redress the body-temperature problem. There are few places in the world that posses, for example, naturally occuring hot springs. Energy generally costs money and so the options are more limited for those who live in cold climates and are at the same time economically “stressed”.

      Hence the imbalance in death-rates in the two articles you quoted.

      Sounds crazy? Probably is!

  2. Paul 3

    Read Gwynne Dyers ‘Climate Wars.’
    Sobering.

  3. One Anonymous Bloke 4

    Hardly a glimpse of the future, considering the Russian and European heatwaves of 2010 and 2003 killed 55k and 71k respectively.

    It’s a vision of the present. It will get worse before it gets better.

    • exkiwiforces 4.1

      The weather god’s here are either crazy or drunk here in NT at the moment because it has been raining here all weekend and it suppose to be the dry season. So someone has bugger up season and i wonder who they are?

    • dukeofurl 4.2

      The Russian heatwave is considered to be a 500 year event and is not considered to be related to human caused warming. ( it was very high temperatures over about 2 months). Its considered similar the 1936 US heatwave

      But of course higher temperatures and above previous averages will continue because of warming

      India had a heatwave back in 2010 along with parts of Asia and Europe, so the one in India may not be that signifiv=cant

      • Macro 4.2.1

        “The Russian heatwave is considered to be a 500 year event and is not considered to be related to human caused warming”
        Wrong!
        http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041129/full/news041129-6.html

        • dukeofurl 4.2.1.1

          Wrong

          Surely you realise something published in 2004 isnt relevant to an event in 2010.

          NOAA doesnt agree with you regarding this 500 year event. .

          “Despite this strong evidence for a warming planet, greenhouse gas forcing fails to explain the 2010 heat wave over western Russia. The natural process of atmospheric blocking, and the climate impacts induced by such blocking, are the principal cause for this heat wave. It is not known whether, or to what exent, greenhouse gas emissions may affect the frequency or intensity of blocking during summer. ”
          http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/csi/events/2010/russianheatwave/prelim.html

          • RedLogix 4.2.1.1.1

            Are you familiar with the idea of fractals dof? The basic idea is that they have a shape which looks similar at any scale. Ice crystals are the classic example.

            It is useful to think of climate and weather as the large scale version of temperature and molecular motion.

            Temperature is nothing more than the average kinetic energy (and hence their average speed) of all the molecules of the medium you are measuring. Each individual molecule is travelling at a different speed in a different direction with a values that is random. (Or to use a more technical term – stochastic.)

            But the speed and direction of ALL molecules has a distribution that is highly predictable. (This is the same idea that says that you cannot predict the outcome of any single toss of the coin, but if you toss that coin a 1000 times you can make a quite accurate prediction of how many will be heads or tails.)

            Back to our molecules The average speed of their distribution is what we call temperature which despite the random speed of all the molecules – is highly predictable.

            But what ‘temperature’ does not direcly tell you is the proportion of molecules that have extremely high speeds. In simple terms, while the average speed (temperature) may increase a small percentage, the number of molecules with very high speeds can increase by a much large factor.

            Using the fractal scaling idea – it’s helpful to think of weather as stochastic events but whose long term spatial and temporal average is what we call climate. The parallel is not an exact one, but helpful.

            And from this we get the idea that a relatively small increase in climate (the average of all weather events) is very likely to be accompanied by a relatively large increase in the frequency of extreme weather events.

            As I said above – the parallel is not exact – and the precise maths is not something I’d pretend to be an expert on. But from some basic statistics and physics we know that the general idea is very likely correct.

            • Poission 4.2.1.1.1.1

              but if you toss that coin a 1000 times you can make a quite accurate prediction of how many will be heads or tails.

              Actually it is a well used example on ill conceived probability (counter intuitive) eg Fellers seminal paper

              http://chesswanks.com/txt/Feller.pdf

            • dukeofurl 4.2.1.1.1.2

              RedLogix, your logic is laughable.

              WE have found from US hurricane exposure, that the numbers of hurricanes has dropped since the devastating Katrina and New Orleans. Its not expected to be permanent but can only be natural variability as the area has continued to warm.

              You say …idea that a relatively small increase in climate (the average of all weather events) is very likely to be accompanied by a relatively large increase in the frequency of extreme weather events.

              Thats doesnt match up here as Ive shown with US hurricanes, and it seems very extreme russian heatwaves. People who’s expertise is in atmospheres and oceans( NOAA) dont see it in your terms, as a quick search has nothing they have produced regarding fractals.
              My guess is your theories are entirely of your own making. Could it be you have made the breakthrough no one else has thought of ?

              • One Anonymous Bloke

                Snark aside, some Climatology predicts a decrease in frequency of hurricanes, while also predicting an increase in intensity for those that do occur.

                As for the Russian heatwave, it’s an open question.

                …Rahmstorf and Coumou (2011) write that with a probability of 80% “the 2010 July heat record would not have occurred” without the large-scale climate warming since 1980, most of which has been attributed to the anthropogenic increase in greenhouse gas concentrations. The latter explicitly state that their results “contradict those of Dole et al. (2011).” Here we use the results from a large ensemble simulation experiment with an atmospheric general circulation model to show that there is no substantive contradiction between these two papers

                Otto et al 2012.

              • RedLogix

                Ah no – I was not proposing any kind of theory. Merely using some basic physics and statistical theory to explain something to you.

                If you want to measure the temperature (as the average speed of all the molecules in it) of a bucket of water, then you can use a thermometer. But if you want to measure climate (as the average of all the weather events on the planet) we don’t have any convenient instrument to tell us this. (Satellite data is a recent source of very helpful information in this respect. )

                But the ideas which work on one physical scale are often a useful tool to use as a starting point on another. Hence my simple analogy with fractals. If you think I’m completely wrong then I’d be happy to hear why. But snark is what you offered instead.

          • Macro 4.2.1.1.2

            Do you ever read anything you write?

            “Surely you realise something published in 2004 isnt relevant to an event in 2010. ”
            AOB stated:

            “Hardly a glimpse of the future, considering the Russian and European heatwaves of 2010 and 2003 killed 55k and 71k respectively.”

            The link I referred you to clearly showed that the 2003 event was attributable to AGW and that similar event were likely to occur in the future.

            The NOAA my have doubts about the most recent event quoting blocking as the immediate cause.

            Blocking events (caused by a shift in the jet stream around the Arctic Circle affecting the Arctic Oscillation) have been identified as being associated with increasing Global Temperatures – particularly in Polar regions. The greater increased temperatures are the poles (a noted prediction of Global Warming by the way) results in the troposphere increasing in height over the poles. This greater increase in height over the poles lowers the gradient between the height of the troposphere over the equator with respect to the height over the poles. The decreased gradient leads to a more meandering jet stream and blocking events.
            http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2012GL051000/abstract

      • Richard Christie 4.2.2

        The Russian heatwave is considered to be a 500 year event and is not considered to be related to human caused warming. ( it was very high temperatures over about 2 months). Its considered similar the 1936 US heatwave

        But of course higher temperatures and above previous averages will continue because of warming

        You appear to be confused as to the nature and significance of climate change on the re-occurrence of adverse weather events.

        As climate continues to change, what was once in a 500 year event often becomes once in 450 year event, then 300 years etc.

        • Colonial Rawshark 4.2.2.1

          Robert Atack posted a presentation a couple of days ago which made it clear that mathematically, what was considered a 1 in 1,000,000 weather event is going to end up being an occasional occurrence in the next decade or two.

          In other words, we are fucked.

          • In Vino 4.2.2.1.1

            ♪ Always look on the bright side of life♫
            I hate feeling that we are all crucified, and that only a few are aware of it. It may be true.
            On the other hand, even though a grumpy old fart, I love seeing young people full of zest, spirit, and intelligence.
            I hope that they can build upon the shambles and disaster that we are likely to be leaving them.

          • Robert Atack 4.2.2.1.2

            Robert Atack posted a presentation a couple of days ago

            Here it is again https://vimeo.com/128141163

          • weka 4.2.2.1.3

            Robert Atack posted a presentation a couple of days ago which made it clear that mathematically, what was considered a 1 in 1,000,000 weather event is going to end up being an occasional occurrence in the next decade or two.

            In other words, we are fucked.

            Robert Atack also thinks that Cowspiracy is valid and reliable source of information. And I seem to remember he believed that because increasing temps meant industrial mono agriculture would fail in many places that we would alll starve. Sorry Robert, but some of your assertions fall over under scrutiny, which is why the ‘we’re doomed’ message is the thing that is fucked.

            • Colonial Rawshark 4.2.2.1.3.1

              Was the message of the video he linked to above not valid?

              • weka

                I’m not sure. I watched it the other day when Draco tweeted it. It looked convincing, but I’d like to hear an opinion from someone who knows statistics. I also don’t think the video says we’re fucked. Mostly my comments in response to Robert are an attempt to get some people to see the difference between fact and interpretation. Robert mixes them up and some of his sources are dodgy so I think it’s prudent to take his posts with a grain of salt.

          • dukeofurl 4.2.2.1.4

            Are you sure on those numbers?

            1 in 500 years or 1 in a million years ( if there is such a thing) is a probability not a prediction of when it will happen.

            • Colonial Rawshark 4.2.2.1.4.1

              true

            • RedLogix 4.2.2.1.4.2

              It depends by what you mean by ‘prediction’.

              If you mean predicting when any given single hurricane or weather event will occur – then no.

              But if you want to predict how many events will occur over a period of time – then yes.

        • dukeofurl 4.2.2.2

          NOAA scientists dont agree with you there. My understanding is that , in this instance, a natural event produced the extreme heat and it wasnt due to greenhouse gas forcing. But of course average temperatures over Russia are increasing.

          To use your own words, you appear to be confused about what is a very extreme natural event.

          • One Anonymous Bloke 4.2.2.2.1

            And you’re ignoring the fact that it’s still an open question. See my comment above.

            • dukeofurl 4.2.2.2.1.1

              Who to consider ?

              The people who based their work on the regional data and atmospheric conditions. [Dole , 2011]
              or
              fitting a non-linear trend to central Russian temperatures
              and showing that the warming which has occurred in this region since the 1960s has increased the risk of a heat wave that set a new temperature record for the region by around a factor of 5. [Rahmstorff 2011]

              • One Anonymous Bloke

                Otto et al seem to think there’s more to it than that. You know best though, I’m sure.

          • Colonial Rawshark 4.2.2.2.2

            The behaviour of Earth’s entire climate system is shifting. What used to be a one in a thousand year event is going to end up as a one in ten year event.

        • dukeofurl 4.2.2.3

          Richard you should check your probability. 1 in 500 is a Pe of 0.002 , or .2% in any one year, not a prediction of only 1 over 500 years.

  4. SMILIN 5

    The scariest part is that if our immigration keeps up from those exiting to colder climes we who are indigenous and poor may find ourselves on a boat to burn town as the rich buy us out with the help of our current political situation which any one would know is such a pack of bloody lies and when the inevitable destruction of this planet begins in at the very outside 200yrs well the spaceship will be the 50/50 choice for the rich so you might as well believe in Jesus he knew quite a bit about disasters

  5. https://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2015/06/01/arctic-methane-alert-ramp-up-at-numerous-reporting-stations-shows-signature-of-an-amplifying-feedback/

    All this controversy aside, what we OBSERVE NOW is the following:

    1. Arctic methane and CO2 overburden — proxy indication of environmental release.
    2. Increasing rates of release, indications of increasing release, or possibly increasing release from single sources such as thermokarst lakes, peat bogs, wildfires, and sea bed hydrates and submerged tundra.
    3. A multiplication of observed or discovered methane release sources — thermokarst lakes, methane blow holes, wildfires etc.
    4. A ramping rate of atmospheric methane accumulation at reporting stations throughout the Arctic (most but not all stations).
    5. A ramping rate of atmospheric methane accumulation from global proxy monitors like Mauna Loa and in the global atmospheric average.

    Together, these observations represent a troubling trend that, should it continue, will be proceeding along or near a worst-case climate sensitivity track. As such, these new ramping rates of increase in Arctic atmospheric monitors are a very unfortunate indicator.

  6. Heat Wave Forecast For Russia Early June 2015
    Arctic News,
    1 June, 2015
    Following heat waves in Alaska and the north of Canada, the Arctic looks set to be hit by heat waves along the north coast of Russia in early June, 2015. The image below shows temperature anomalies at the top end of the scale for a large area of Russia forecast for June 6, 2015.

    http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/06/a-heat-wave-for-russia.html

  7. http://www.monbiot.com/2015/05/27/a-prehistory-of-violence/

    According to a paper published in 2013, the current rate of ocean acidification, caused by the burning of fossil fuels, is faster than at any time in the past 300 million years. During the Permian mass extinction, the eruption of the Siberian Traps through the Tunguska basin seems to have produced between one and two gigatonnes of carbon dioxide a year. Today fossil fuel burning produces 30 gigatonnes a year.

    But its all good, we got kiwi Saver and ….. hope

    • Colonial Rawshark 8.1

      There’s always restarting the Cullen Fund

      And the bar on the Titanic is still serving cocktails to the First Class passengers; too early to be panicking

  8. Classic heat stroke during Chicago 1995 heat wave
    http://www.uchospitals.edu/news/1998/19980801-heatstroke-aim.html
    ICU patients from 1995 Chicago heat wave suffered long-term consequences
    August 1, 1998

    A study of patients admitted to intensive care units for heat stroke during the Chicago heat wave of July 1995 indicates that even the extraordinary level of weather-related mortality–more than 600 excess deaths in nine days–radically underestimates the real consequences of that episode.

    In addition to the pre-hospital deaths, nearly half of the patients admitted to Chicago-area ICUs for heat stroke died within a year–21 percent before discharge and another 28 percent after release from the hospital. Many of the survivors suffered permanent loss of independent function; one-third had severe functional impairment at discharge, and none of them had improved after one year.

    snip

    “In this unusual episode, we saw sicker patients with more severe disease than is customary. It taught us that classic heat stroke is a deadly disorder, more complex, more often fatal, and more permanently disabling than the literature on this disorder would predict. And it drove home the crucial importance of prevention and rapid diagnosis and treatment.”

Recent Comments

Recent Posts

  • EV road user charges bill passes
    Transport Minister Simeon Brown has welcomed the passing of legislation to move light electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) into the road user charges system from 1 April.  “It was always intended that EVs and PHEVs would be exempt from road user charges until they reached two ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 day ago
  • Bill targets illegal, unregulated fishing in international waters
    New Zealand is strengthening its ability to combat illegal fishing outside its domestic waters and beef up regulation for its own commercial fishers in international waters through a Bill which had its first reading in Parliament today. The Fisheries (International Fishing and Other Matters) Amendment Bill 2023 sets out stronger ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 day ago
  • Reserve Bank appointments
    Economists Carl Hansen and Professor Prasanna Gai have been appointed to the Reserve Bank Monetary Policy Committee, Finance Minister Nicola Willis announced today. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is the independent decision-making body that sets the Official Cash Rate which determines interest rates.  Carl Hansen, the executive director of Capital ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 day ago
  • Stronger protections for apartment owners
    Apartment owners and buyers will soon have greater protections as further changes to the law on unit titles come into effect, Housing Minister Chris Bishop says. “The Unit Titles (Strengthening Body Corporate Governance and Other Matters) Amendment Act had already introduced some changes in December 2022 and May 2023, and ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 day ago
  • Travel focused on traditional partners and Middle East
    Foreign Minister Winston Peters will travel to Egypt and Europe from this weekend.    “This travel will focus on a range of New Zealand’s traditional diplomatic and security partnerships while enabling broad engagement on the urgent situation in Gaza,” Mr Peters says.   Mr Peters will attend the NATO Foreign ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 day ago
  • Keep safe on our roads this Easter
    Transport Minister Simeon Brown is encouraging all road users to stay safe, plan their journeys ahead of time, and be patient with other drivers while travelling around this Easter long weekend. “Road safety is a responsibility we all share, and with increased traffic on our roads expected this Easter we ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 day ago
  • Cost of living support for over 1.4 million Kiwis
    About 1.4 million New Zealanders will receive cost of living relief through increased government assistance from April 1 909,000 pensioners get a boost to Superannuation, including 5000 veterans 371,000 working-age beneficiaries will get higher payments 45,000 students will see an increase in their allowance Over a quarter of New Zealanders ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 day ago
  • Tenancy reviews for social housing restart
    Ensuring social housing is being provided to those with the greatest needs is front of mind as the Government restarts social housing tenancy reviews, Associate Housing Minister Tama Potaka says. “Our relentless focus on building a strong economy is to ensure we can deliver better public services such as social ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 day ago
  • Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary plan halted
    The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary will not go ahead, with Cabinet deciding to stop work on the proposed reserve and remove the Bill that would have established it from Parliament’s order paper. “The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary Bill would have created a 620,000 sq km economic no-go zone,” Oceans and Fisheries Minister ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 day ago
  • Cutting all that dam red tape
    Dam safety regulations are being amended so that smaller dams won’t be subject to excessive compliance costs, Minister for Building and Construction Chris Penk says. “The coalition Government is focused on reducing costs and removing unnecessary red tape so we can get the economy back on track.  “Dam safety regulations ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 days ago
  • Drought support extended to parts of North Island
    The coalition Government is expanding the medium-scale adverse event classification to parts of the North Island as dry weather conditions persist, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay announced today. “I have made the decision to expand the medium-scale adverse event classification already in place for parts of the South Island to also cover the ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 days ago
  • Passage of major tax bill welcomed
    The passing of legislation giving effect to coalition Government tax commitments has been welcomed by Finance Minister Nicola Willis.  “The Taxation (Annual Rates for 2023–24, Multinational Tax, and Remedial Matters) Bill will help place New Zealand on a more secure economic footing, improve outcomes for New Zealanders, and make our tax system ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 days ago
  • Lifting economy through science, tertiary sectors
    Science, Innovation and Technology Minister Judith Collins and Tertiary Education and Skills Minister Penny Simmonds today announced plans to transform our science and university sectors to boost the economy. Two advisory groups, chaired by Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, will advise the Government on how these sectors can play a greater ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 days ago
  • Government announces Budget priorities
    The Budget will deliver urgently-needed tax relief to hard-working New Zealanders while putting the government’s finances back on a sustainable track, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says.  The Finance Minister made the comments at the release of the Budget Policy Statement setting out the Government’s Budget objectives. “The coalition Government intends ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 days ago
  • Government to consider accommodation solution
    The coalition Government will look at options to address a zoning issue that limits how much financial support Queenstown residents can get for accommodation. Cabinet has agreed on a response to the Petitions Committee, which had recommended the geographic information MSD uses to determine how much accommodation supplement can be ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago
  • Government approves extension to Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care
    Cabinet has agreed to a short extension to the final reporting timeframe for the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care from 28 March 2024 to 26 June 2024, Internal Affairs Minister Brooke van Velden says.                                         “The Royal Commission wrote to me on 16 February 2024, requesting that I consider an ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago
  • $18m boost for Kiwis travelling to health treatment
    The coalition Government is delivering an $18 million boost to New Zealanders needing to travel for specialist health treatment, Health Minister Dr Shane Reti says.   “These changes are long overdue – the National Travel Assistance (NTA) scheme saw its last increase to mileage and accommodation rates way back in 2009.  ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago
  • PM’s Prizes for Space to showcase sector’s talent
    The Government is recognising the innovative and rising talent in New Zealand’s growing space sector, with the Prime Minister and Space Minister Judith Collins announcing the new Prime Minister’s Prizes for Space today. “New Zealand has a growing reputation as a high-value partner for space missions and research. I am ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago
  • Concerns conveyed to China over cyber activity
    Foreign Minister Winston Peters has confirmed New Zealand’s concerns about cyber activity have been conveyed directly to the Chinese Government.     “The Prime Minister and Minister Collins have expressed concerns today about malicious cyber activity, attributed to groups sponsored by the Chinese Government, targeting democratic institutions in both New ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago
  • Independent Reviewers appointed for School Property Inquiry
    Independent Reviewers appointed for School Property Inquiry Education Minister Erica Stanford today announced the appointment of three independent reviewers to lead the Ministerial Inquiry into the Ministry of Education’s School Property Function.  The Inquiry will be led by former Minister of Foreign Affairs Murray McCully. “There is a clear need ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago
  • Brynderwyns open for Easter
    State Highway 1 across the Brynderwyns will be open for Easter weekend, with work currently underway to ensure the resilience of this critical route being paused for Easter Weekend to allow holiday makers to travel north, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Today I visited the Brynderwyn Hills construction site, where ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago
  • Speech to the Infrastructure Funding & Financing Conference
    Introduction Good morning to you all, and thanks for having me bright and early today. I am absolutely delighted to be the Minister for Infrastructure alongside the Minister of Housing and Resource Management Reform. I know the Prime Minister sees the three roles as closely connected and he wants me ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago
  • Parliamentary network breached by the PRC
    New Zealand stands with the United Kingdom in its condemnation of People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-backed malicious cyber activity impacting its Electoral Commission and targeting Members of the UK Parliament. “The use of cyber-enabled espionage operations to interfere with democratic institutions and processes anywhere is unacceptable,” Minister Responsible for ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    4 days ago
  • NZ to provide support for Solomon Islands election
    Foreign Minister Winston Peters and Defence Minister Judith Collins today announced New Zealand will provide logistics support for the upcoming Solomon Islands election. “We’re sending a team of New Zealand Defence Force personnel and two NH90 helicopters to provide logistics support for the election on 17 April, at the request ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    4 days ago
  • NZ-EU FTA gains Royal Assent for 1 May entry to force
    The European Union Free Trade Agreement Legislation Amendment Bill received Royal Assent today, completing the process for New Zealand’s ratification of its free trade agreement with the European Union.    “I am pleased to announce that today, in a small ceremony at the Beehive, New Zealand notified the European Union ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    4 days ago
  • COVID-19 inquiry attracts 11,000 submissions
    Public consultation on the terms of reference for the Royal Commission into COVID-19 Lessons has concluded, Internal Affairs Minister Hon Brooke van Velden says.  “I have been advised that there were over 11,000 submissions made through the Royal Commission’s online consultation portal.” Expanding the scope of the Royal Commission of ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    4 days ago
  • Families to receive up to $75 a week help with ECE fees
    Hardworking families are set to benefit from a new credit to help them meet their early childcare education (ECE) costs, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. From 1 July, parents and caregivers of young children will be supported to manage the rising cost of living with a partial reimbursement of their ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    4 days ago
  • Unlocking a sustainable, low-emissions future
    A specialised Independent Technical Advisory Group (ITAG) tasked with preparing and publishing independent non-binding advice on the design of a "green" (sustainable finance) taxonomy rulebook is being established, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says.  “Comprising experts and market participants, the ITAG's primary goal is to deliver comprehensive recommendations to the ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    4 days ago
  • Chief of Army thanked for his service
    Defence Minister Judith Collins has thanked the Chief of Army, Major General John Boswell, DSD, for his service as he leaves the Army after 40 years. “I would like to thank Major General Boswell for his contribution to the Army and the wider New Zealand Defence Force, undertaking many different ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    4 days ago
  • Minister to meet Australian counterparts and Manufacturing Industry Leaders
    25 March 2024 Minister to meet Australian counterparts and Manufacturing Industry Leaders Small Business, Manufacturing, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly will travel to Australia for a series of bi-lateral meetings and manufacturing visits. During the visit, Minister Bayly will meet with his Australian counterparts, Senator Tim Ayres, Ed ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    4 days ago
  • Government commits nearly $3 million for period products in schools
    Government commits almost $3 million for period products in schools The Coalition Government has committed $2.9 million to ensure intermediate and secondary schools continue providing period products to those who need them, Minister of Education Erica Stanford announced today. “This is an issue of dignity and ensuring young women don’t ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    5 days ago
  • Speech – Making it easier to build.
    Good morning, it’s great to be here.   First, I would like to acknowledge the New Zealand Institute of Building Surveyors and thank you for the opportunity to be here this morning.  I would like to use this opportunity to outline the Government’s ambitious plan and what we hope to ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    6 days ago
  • Pacific youth to shine from boost to Polyfest
    Minister for Pacific Peoples Dr Shane Reti has announced the Government’s commitment to the Auckland Secondary Schools Māori and Pacific Islands Cultural Festival, more commonly known as Polyfest. “The Ministry for Pacific Peoples is a longtime supporter of Polyfest and, as it celebrates 49 years in 2024, I’m proud to ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago
  • 2024 Ngarimu VC and 28th (Māori) Battalion Memorial Scholarships announced
    ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago
  • Speech to Breast Cancer Foundation – Insights Conference
    Before moving onto the substance of today’s address, I want to recognise the very significant and ongoing contribution the Breast Cancer Foundation makes to support the lives of New Zealand women and their families living with breast cancer. I very much enjoy working with you. I also want to recognise ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago
  • Kiwi research soars to International Space Station
    New Zealand has notched up a first with the launch of University of Canterbury research to the International Space Station, Science, Innovation and Technology and Space Minister Judith Collins says. The hardware, developed by Dr Sarah Kessans, is designed to operate autonomously in orbit, allowing scientists on Earth to study ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago
  • Speech to the New Zealand Planning Institute
    Introduction Thank you for inviting me to speak with you today and I’m sorry I can’t be there in person. Yesterday I started in Wellington for Breakfast TV, spoke to a property conference in Auckland, and finished the day speaking to local government in Christchurch, so it would have been ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago
  • Support for Northland emergency response centre
    The Coalition Government is contributing more than $1 million to support the establishment of an emergency multi-agency coordination centre in Northland. Emergency Management and Recovery Minister Mark Mitchell announced the contribution today during a visit of the Whangārei site where the facility will be constructed.  “Northland has faced a number ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago
  • Celebrating 20 years of Whakaata Māori
    New Zealanders have enjoyed a broader range of voices telling the story of Aotearoa thanks to the creation of Whakaata Māori 20 years ago, says Māori Development Minister Tama Potaka. The minister spoke at a celebration marking the national indigenous media organisation’s 20th anniversary at their studio in Auckland on ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago
  • Some commercial fishery catch limits increased
    Commercial catch limits for some fisheries have been increased following a review showing stocks are healthy and abundant, Ocean and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. The changes, along with some other catch limit changes and management settings, begin coming into effect from 1 April 2024. "Regular biannual reviews of fish ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago

Page generated in The Standard by Wordpress at 2024-03-29T08:01:24+00:00