Archive for the ‘Global Warming’ Category
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Here's another take on the ongoing disaster that the National Party is foisting upon us - you know, the ETS disaster - the new National Party bill that is likely to be pushed through Parliament with no public debate.
The bonehead climate change strategy that is nothing short of enforced economic ...
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
It looks like "Water Wars" are heading to your local planet.
There are two types:
LOCALISED WATER WARS
Two examples:
1) The "Bolivian Water Wars". (In Bolivia civil disobedience prevented Bechtel from privatizing the water supply. Yes that's right - Bechtel - the same company that partnered with McConnell Dowell to work with Meridian ...
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
"Taxpayers will be stuck with 84 per cent of the bill for meeting New Zealand's obligation under the Kyoto Protocol, while farmers and large industrial emitters get hefty subsidies, according to a report out today. " NZ Herald 12th November 2009.
<RANT> I reckon the Kyoto rort is actually worse than ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
Recent scientific research makes it plain that ocean levels are rising and that they will continue to rise at an ever-increasing rate.
Some estimates suggest that that we are looking at a 100m rise within 100-200 years.
But this post is not about a 100m rise. It deals with a ...
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Rising sea levels are part of our future so we may as well get on with figuring out how to cope with the changes in sea level due to global warming.
Rather than deny it is happening, or hoping it is some kind of conspiracy, or arguing whose fault it ...
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