Passion and reason about climate change
While I agree with most blogging folks that John Key was a fool to try to smack down Keisha Castle-Hughes for her role in the Greenpeace climate change campaign, I do still have concerns about the...
View ArticleHalf-baked
Paint your roof white, Marty G urges, and save the planet: Just painting the dark roof of a 100m2 house white offsets 10 tons of carbon emissions – over half of average annual emissions per person. If...
View ArticleHōiho trading
So much of Labour and the economic left’s criticism of the māori party and its conduct in government with National is little more than the howling of self-interested Pākehā angry that the natives...
View ArticleClimate credibility fail
I’ve remained largely silent on the so-called ClimateGate thus far, mostly out of an abject lack of expertise to judge the whys and wherefores of it all. It’s science, I’m not a scientist. But given...
View ArticleBrief thoughts
No time for anything substantive, but here are a few thoughts, in no particular order: This ad for the Aussie Greens, made by Republic of Everyone for the ABC’s election campaign showThe Gruen Nation,...
View ArticleFighting like you mean to win
I had meant to write something substantive on the politics-of-not-playing-politics evident in all aspects of the Christchurch earthquake and its aftermath, but circumstances have conspired to prevent...
View ArticleThe Big Wet
Having neglected my bloggerly duties these past six weeks (in fact, I’ve been neglecting all my duties which aren’t strictly in service of looking after my family and keeping my job), I had resolved to...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to the ACT Party Regarding Candidate Selection
Dear ACT Party Leaders, As you may know, I was brought up in Wanganui, and keep an eye on events there. So it was with great interest that I received the below letter, published in the Wanganui...
View ArticleOn Resistance to Climate Change Politics
Yesterday the Green Party released its Climate Tax Cut policy proposal comprising, mostly, a carbon tax offset by an income-tax-free threshold for individuals and a decrease in the company tax rate....
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