Archive for April, 2007

  • Russel Norman

    AA awards part 2 - by Russel Norman



    It seems that a post I did some time ago has annoyed the AA. The post was a letter from a FrogBlog reader complaining that the AA gave their supreme motoring excellence award to a gas guzzling V8 – the Volvo S80 all wheel drive. AA has responded: You have done your blog readers a [...] read more
    April 12, 2007 5:57 pm - 68 Comments
  • frog

    Oh gosh, the Greens use paper - by frog



    Well, the Greens are getting done over on Kiwiblog for the fact that we sometimes like to send out hard copies of material such as our GreenTimes (due out shortly folks!). The discussion started because prior to distributing our tabloid we give those for whom we only have emails the chance to give us their [...] read more
    April 12, 2007 4:11 pm - 6 Comments
  • frog

    Biofuels – ‘deforestation diesel’ or way of the future? - by frog



    The disquiet about biofuels continues to rise. Fidel Castro has leapt out of his sick bed to write a piece attacking Bush’s enthusiasm for them, in his usual fairly strident terms.  Evocative tales of habitat and wildlife destruction in biofuel producing areas are flooding in, denouncing biofuels as an ecological fairytale [turned into] a bad [...] read more
    April 12, 2007 11:32 am - 17 Comments
  • Russel Norman

    Bus lanes for Wellington - by Russel Norman



    Something rather sensible coming out of the Wellington City Council – a draft plan to significantly increase bus (and cycle) lanes . One of the major problems with buses as a form of mass transit is that they get caught in the traffic so don’t get people to work faster, and bus lanes allow buses [...] read more
    April 11, 2007 5:21 pm - 32 Comments
  • Russel Norman

    IPCC Working Group 2 - by Russel Norman



    The second part of the IPCC working group two report has been released today looking at impacts on NZ. It seems to be getting a lot of pickup in the media (e.g. here, here) which is great. However, Labour is still prevaricating on passing on the real cost of greenhouse emissions to the those producing [...] read more
    April 10, 2007 5:26 pm - 18 Comments
  • frog

    New Peak Oil documentary coming soon - by frog



    This may not prove to be the box office bonanza that Gore’s doco was, but it looks like it could be as unsettling. Love the opening quote “Oil is our God. I don’t care if somebody says they worship Jesus, Buddha, Allah or whoever, they actually worship petroleum.” Or try here if there are any problems [...] read more
    April 4, 2007 5:51 pm - 55 Comments
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    Who is Ruby? Part II - by frog



    As Dave so rightly points out, Frog didn’t do the leg work on this one. Lucky we never intimated that huh? Furthermore, Frog couldn’t agree more that Ruby is a side show. It’s just that she’s a side show that is constantly hauled out and presented to the public as a the voice of reason [...] read more
    April 2, 2007 6:33 pm - 61 Comments
  • Russel Norman

    The sheep albedo feedback - by Russel Norman



    From RealClimate (thank you Alastair) The already-reeling “consensus” supposedly linking climate change to CO2 is about to receive its final coup-de-grace from a remarkable new result announced in a press conference today by Dr. Ewe Noh-Watt of the New Zealand Institute of Veterinary Climatology [1]. Noh-Watt and his co-workers, describing work funded by a generous [...] read more
    April 2, 2007 9:58 am - 5 Comments
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