global warming Archive

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  The Climate Change Select Committee - by frog

  
  
  
  Looking at the Climate Change Select Committee Terms of Reference agreed by the Act and National parties it seems like we are going to need to go through a significant re-litigation process that will be costly in terms of time and missed opportunities. Among other things Act proposes that the Select Committee will: • hear [...] read more
  November 17, 2008 12:30 pm - 10 Comments
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  Climate Change and Security - by frog

  
  
  
  I spent the day today at the Institute of Policy Studies Symposium on Climate Change and Security. (Hence the lack of posts) They had a great line up of speakers from around the world, including one American and one Canadian via video link. The message? Very simple. Climate Change, or rather the rate of climate [...] read more
  November 14, 2008 5:57 pm - 86 Comments
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  Rocky - by frog

  
  
  
  Before we begin this topic let’s remember that carbon emissions are just one of the problems with burning fossil fuels at unsustainable rates. Nevertheless, this is kind of cool: Scientists say that a type of rock found at or near the surface in the Mideast nation of Oman and other areas around the world could [...] read more
  November 13, 2008 4:38 pm - 13 Comments
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  The first climate refugees - by frog

  
  
  
  Next year forty 40 families from Carteret Island, dubbed the ‘world’s first climate change refugees’ by the United Nations, will relocate to the nearby Papau New Guinean island Bougainville. Their current island home is expected to be submerged by 2015. This strikes me as the some of the most shaming and important news of the [...] read more
  November 11, 2008 12:29 pm - 22 Comments
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  Good night - by frog

  
  
  
  As I understand the electoral law, I’m not allowed to post new web content tomorrow until the close of polling booths at 7pm. And from 7pm onwards I intend to be at the Green Party Party, not in front of a computer typing.  So this is me signing off for the day.  Expect coverage to [...] read more
  November 7, 2008 8:29 pm - 18 Comments
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  Key’s potential coalition dilemma - by frog

  
  
  
  By the looks of the polls John Key might be talking to Rodney Hide about the environment next week. That’s certainly how Hide is positioning himself in the lead up to tomorrow’s vote. John, you gotta get the country out of this Emissions Trading Scam. Hide and his party are the only remaining confirmed climate [...] read more
  November 7, 2008 1:22 pm - 35 Comments
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  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
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  Bush and Howard melt away to leave Rodney and John increasingly lonely on their iceberg - by frog

  
  
  
  Talking of mashups… read more
  November 6, 2008 12:18 pm - 30 Comments
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  Powering our farms with sunshine not oil - by frog

  
  
  
  Graham Harvey, the author of The Carbon Fields, has a good opinion piece here, where he talks about our lack of food security: Our food supply is now more dependent on globally traded grains than at any time in our history. This makes it inherently unstable and vulnerable to the kind of catastrophic meltdown that [...] read more
  November 5, 2008 3:06 pm - 15 Comments
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  Global warming for millionaires #1 - by frog

  
  
  
  John Key has said he will not let the environment get in the way of economic growth.  That’s fine. I guess global warming is not everyone’s cup of tea – but maybe he hasn’t thought through all the consequences yet?  Admittedly I have probably personally focused overly much in my global warming discussions on its [...] read more
  October 24, 2008 9:52 pm - 54 Comments
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  Frank Capra’s warning to us 50 years ago - by frog

  
  
  
  A reader just sent me this clip: You’d think we might be a bit further down the path to doing something about it by now. read more
  October 23, 2008 2:30 pm - 4 Comments
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  Russel and Rodney debate the economy - by frog

  
  
  
  TV3′s ASB Business show this morning featured a brawling debate between Russel and Rodney Hide this morning which includes Hide’s extraordinary proposal to pull New Zealand out of it’s international Kyoto commitments and, as Russel described it, have New Zealand tagged as a global climate criminal.  As Russel mentions during the debate the two biggest [...] read more
  October 22, 2008 11:42 am - 29 Comments
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  Belief - by frog

  
  
  
  Gareth Renowden from Hot Topic has this video which he has titled Exclusive: ACT release election video explaining climate policy: It could be their campaign theme song perhaps? read more
  October 22, 2008 8:16 am - 6 Comments
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  Jack Black sues over global warming - by frog

  
  
  
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  October 15, 2008 8:42 am - 3 Comments
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  Electric cars are not the answer - by frog

  
  
  
  Russel was in the Herald (off line) this morning saying that Labour and National were both looking at electric cars as some “sort of magic solution to the issues of climate change and depleting oil supplies.” Although they might be worth considering over time, he said the priority was to invest in the better use [...] read more
  October 14, 2008 1:57 pm - 12 Comments
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  Arguing with deniers - by frog

  
  
  
  Celias has an interesting opinion piece on the frustration of arguing with climate deniers.  Apparently in the US “a Pew Poll showing that 13% fewer Republicans believe in global warming now than did a year ago” – despite the scientific consensus pointing in the other direction.  Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins Reciting scientific evidence [...] read more
  October 13, 2008 8:37 am - 99 Comments
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  The climate change numbers - by frog

  
  
  
  The Environmental Defence Action Fund has a climate change time line of the last eight years which covers major climate studies and related events, alarming impacts that are taking place and eight years of political inaction (in America). It starts the International Panel on Climate Change’s third report which found in 2000 that burning of [...] read more
  October 10, 2008 10:43 am - 5 Comments
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  Just carbon emission trading - by frog

  
  
  
  There is an interesting article on Slate called ‘Adam Smith Meets Climate Change‘, which notes that now many countries are introducing carbon emission trading schemes, the next step is how to harmonise those schemes on an international market. In particular countries need to reach a consensus on how to globally acceptable level of carbon emissions [...] read more
  October 1, 2008 3:27 pm - No Comments
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  The carbon report – we’re certainly not running out - by frog

  
  
  
  Last Thursday, the Global Carbon Project released its annual report on the state of the carbon cycle, Carbon Budget 2007 [pdf]. And the news is that carbon dioxide emissions are up 3 percent for 2007 Dot Earth commented: More than half of global emissions, which totalled more than 34 billion tons of CO2 in 2007, [...] read more
  September 30, 2008 8:19 am - 2 Comments
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  The methane time bomb - by frog

  
  
  
  Scientists have recently documented the ticking of the biggest climate change time bomb of them all – methane frozen for millennia beginning to melt in the Arctic. Indeed, the tipping point that the IPCC fears the most may already have been reached. The Independent reports the bad news: In the past few days, the researchers [...] read more
  September 24, 2008 11:02 am - 32 Comments