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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article. And now for a refreshing spot of global warming spam: Sunspot theory for warming planet is shot down in flames Leading scientists, including a Nobel Prize-winner, have rounded on studies used by climate sceptics to show that global warming [...]
Remember the oft repeated picture of the two polar bears forlornly stuck on an ice floe in the middle of nowhere? Turns out that the photographer who took the picture was more interested in the interesting shape of the ice floe and the picture was taken within a couple of hundred meters of the arctic [...]
If you have ever wondered what it would be like if professionals from other disciplines started using the peculiar logic used by climate scientists in their research, wonder no more. Tom Naughton on his eponymous blog gives us If Climate “Researchers” Became Doctors “Step up on the scale, Mr. Naughton.” “Sure, Doctor. I’m looking forward [...]
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 [...]
The Guardian has an article from their resident marxist environmentalist, Fred Pearce, that has the cheek to slag off New Zealand as not being very green because of the UN report on our emissions record. Depressingly the NZPA repeats his drivel, instead of ignoring it as they should have done. Pearce quotes statistics from the [...]
Sir Peter Gluckman has written what I consider to be an eminently sensible and well-reasoned piece on climate change. As usual, the media have taken it out of context and made it to look like he has written some sort of diatribe against climate change skeptics, which does not appear to be Gluckman’s intention at [...]
