denial Archive

  • Russel Norman

    Key in denial about inevitable impact of carbon charges and oil shocks - by Russel Norman



    John Key’s reaction to the distance-based UK departure tax shows just how out of touch he is about our economic future. This Government is deeply in denial. There is no question that climate change and rising fossil fuel prices will change travel patterns, and we should be taking this future into account in our tourism [...] read more
    November 3, 2010 2:45 pm - 16 Comments
  • Gareth Hughes

    I’m pretty sceptical about Boscawen - by Gareth Hughes



    I am embarrassed we now have another out-and-out climate denier in our Executive. I’m talking about the new Consumer Affairs Minister, ACT MP John Boscawen who has been sworn in as a Minister as a result of the internal ACT Party ructions. The climate science is so compelling and the need to act to reduce [...] read more
    August 19, 2010 11:45 am - 13 Comments
  • frog

    Video: common distortions by climate change deniers – exposed - by frog



    ClimateTV has pulled together some of the claims made by Lord Monckton, a key climate denier, and knocked them for six. There are some excellent examples of just how duplicitous these people are. Climate Denial Crock of the Week has a transcript and references, for those who wish to dig deeper and do their own [...] read more
    April 19, 2010 7:51 am - 42 Comments
  • frog

    The climate denial industry is out to dupe the public. And it’s working - by frog



    George Monbiot says it like it is: Think environmentalists are stooges? You’re the unwitting recruit of a hugely powerful oil lobby – I’ve got the proof. read more
    December 11, 2009 2:31 pm - 77 Comments
  • frog

    Climate change: answers to every question you ever had - by frog



    There are a few common objections to the Green Party’s stance on climate change, that pop up over and over again. Things ranging from “climate change is a hoax, perpetrated by socialists who want to tax us“, through to “oh but volcanoes put out heaps more CO2 than humans“, to “it doesn’t matter what we [...] read more
    September 18, 2009 9:03 pm - 20 Comments
  • frog

    The five stages of (causing) grief - by frog



    Click for a larger version Image Credit: Rudis Muiznieks at cectic.com read more
    November 6, 2008 5:57 pm - 24 Comments
  • frog

    The Duck hammers on the Nat’s wedge - by frog



    Trevor ‘The Duck’ Mallard (Honourable mind you), who is apparently awash in leaked National Party policy, has just revealed that he is also in possession of the National Party’s Conservation policy. National’s claim that their Environement policy was ‘accidentally’ left behind by an MP at Copperfields is proving difficult to believe. From Mallard’s release (not [...] read more
    September 5, 2008 3:08 pm - 7 Comments
  • frog

    Nat’s environment policy abdicates responsibility - by frog



    It is becoming a bit of a mantra around here, calling the National Party to task for releasing empty rhetoric and having the audacity to call it ‘policy’. When are we going to find out what the Nats really think? Probably never. The leaked draft of National’s Environment Policy, which Mallard is already beating up [...] read more
    September 5, 2008 2:39 pm - 103 Comments
  • frog

    US drivers cut back by 30 billion miles (48 billion km) - by frog



    Labour has used the excuse that high oil prices are curbing demand, so we don’t have to bring transport into the ETS just yet. New figures released in the States support the claim of reduced car travel. From a USA Today article: Americans drove 22 billion fewer miles from November through April than during the [...] read more
    June 23, 2008 10:33 am - 52 Comments
  • frog

    Rudd gets a familiar grilling - by frog



    Prime Minister Kevin Rudd got a very familiar grilling this week from ABCś Kerry O’Brien. It sounded so much like Jeanetteś grilling of Michael Cullen in the House, it was uncanny. Kevin Rudd, if we can start with oil. You and Brendan Nelson are both arguing over very small savings at the bowser, although his [...] read more
    June 20, 2008 3:54 pm - 7 Comments
  • frog

    The organisation of denial: Conservative think tanks and environmental scepticism - by frog



    This worrisome research article has appeared in a peer reviewed journal. Itś not telling us anything that we didn’t already know, but it does catalogue the situation and help us steer clear of the hyperbole. Environmental scepticism denies the seriousness of environmental problems, and self-professed ‘sceptics’ claim to be unbiased analysts combating ‘junk science’. This [...] read more
    June 16, 2008 5:18 pm - 77 Comments