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 [...]

Now that our illustrious government has finally managed to pass, at great cost to itself and the Maori party, a badly designed Emissions Trading Scheme – that absolutely everyone else hates –  it is time to wonder why anyone bothered. This expensive waste of political capital will achieve precisely nothing for our environment nor prevent [...]

I note that our Kyoto liability estimate seems to have swung into surplus after a number of years in the red. Of course, this has absolutely nothing to do with our actual carbon dioxide emissions and everything to do with the ridiculous way we attempt to calculate these emissions.  Apparently our new “surplus” is due [...]

The Dominion Post has an article breathlessly telling us that information obtained under the Official Information Act shows that Solid Energy paid hundreds of thousands of dollars towards the NZIER report that slammed the Emissions Trading Scheme. Yawn. I’m sure that they would like us to think this is some dirty little secret; showing the evil coal [...]

Audrey Young blogs that Bill English has been forced into being positive about Michael Cullen’s stewardship: In the midst of the horrible outlook and depressing uncertainty about how bad it might get, English was forced to change his message about his inheritance from Labour because it was more important to inject some sense of positivity [...]

Jeanette Fitzsimons says she is “stunned” today after hearing Nick Smith say that National would scrap her pet insulation project. What was she expecting? With the economy tanking and huge deficits looming, how viable was it to spend a billion dollars on insulating homes? What was wrong with getting people to pay for it themselves? Particularly [...]