Apparently there is a war on obesity. Trouble is, there does not seemed to be a well-defined enemy in this war. Is it the fast food industry? Perhaps it is the actual fat in foods? Maybe it is the obese person themselves? Or their wicked, neglectful parents? Or perhaps it is carbohydrates, not fats, that [...]

I’m betting that the left (when they find the article) will have something derisive to say about Muriel Newman’s point that children are not protected from overt educationallly-driven political indoctrination in New Zealand. She cites Al Gore’s strangely acclaimed powerpoint presentation An Inconvenient Truth as an example. Personally, I think Gore’s movie is nowhere near [...]

For a perfect example of why film directors and movie stars should never make public statements, one need look no further than James Cameron, who seems to have confused Brazil with his mythical creation, Pandora. Director James Cameron says a real-life Avatar battle is playing out in Brazil’s Amazon rain forest, where indigenous groups are trying [...]

Indeed, there is an enormous amount of hot air coming from Martyn “Bomber” Bradbury over at Tumeke! today. Bomber has challenged all of us paid shills of Big Oil (if only!) on our silence around the “exoneration” of Phil Jones and CRU. I can’t speak for my fellow shills, but I find the Science and [...]

Earth Hour is now over for another year. During this hour I made absolutely no changes to my lifestyle. I did not turn off all my lights and sit in the dark to express my dubious solidarity with a bunch of  bicycle-weilding arborphiles. Nor did I increase my consumption of electricity merely out of spite. [...]

It is good to see that NIWA is now going to publish all it’s data and calculations on the web to allow proper scrutiny. Good on them for taking the initiative and not waiting until they were forced into it (a much less attractive look). I am vastly amused that James Renwick, the principal climate [...]

It was interesting to see two articles on alternative energy sources today, outside of a “series” on such things. One on the approval of the new tidal power generators at Kaipara Harbour and one, a bit more “blue sky” on the realistic possibility of the first practicable fusion generators. Both of these may be realised [...]

Dutifully, NIWA informs us breathlessly that this decade was the “hottest on record” as if that is some sort of horrifying statistic that will make us rush out and shoot all those farting cows (actually they are burping methane but who cares?). Of course, this is only 50 years worth of data, so this is [...]

Yes, It is the time for reviews of the past year, the perennial favorite of tired journalists the world over. Like me, they knocked this together in mid-December and timed it to drop into whatever publication they owed a column to. Just as I did last year, I thought you might like to have a [...]

It is no secret that I am an Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) sceptic. That is not, as the Global Warm-mongers try to make out, the same thing as a climate change denier. For one thing, I have no doubt the climate is changing. It changes all the time. For another, I object to the attempted [...]