Why (and how) cheaper solar power, batteries, electric and autonomous vehicles are going to change our world over the next 5 years
MIL OSI – MIL OSI – Source: Hot Topic – By Gareth Renowden – Analysis published with permission of Hot-Topic.co.nz Headline: Why (and how) cheaper solar power, batteries, electric and autonomous vehicles are going to change our world over the next 5 years [embedded content] This will be the best hour you’ll spend in front […]
Read More →At last it can be revealed: climate change researcher describes challenge of pulling off worldwide global warming conspiracy
MIL OSI – MIL OSI – Source: Hot Topic – By Gareth Renowden – Analysis published with permission of Hot-Topic.co.nz Headline: At last it can be revealed: climate change researcher describes challenge of pulling off worldwide global warming conspiracy [embedded content] Courtesy of those fine satirists at The Onion, a climate researcher explains the reality […]
Read More →VIDEO Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning: Message from America – Climate Change and the Threat of a Korean War: Trumps Defining Moment
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Message from America – Climate Change and the Threat of a Korean War: Trumps Defining Moment. In this episode Dr Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning discuss Hurricane Irma and its devastating track across the Caribbean and its looming threat on Florida. [embedded content] Will this, the latest in a series […]
Read More →Most Kiwis do not want to follow President Trump’s lead
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Auckland – A total of 92 percent of New Zealanders do not want their nation to follow President Donald Trump’s lead and withdraw from the Paris Climate Change Agreement set in 2015. Moreover, six in ten Kiwi’s believe we should work harder with other countries to achieve the goals of […]
Read More →Climate change hurts the vulnerable
MIL OSI – Source: Green Party – Press Release/Statement Headline: Climate change hurts the vulnerable Our thoughts are with those in Edgecumbe and other towns experiencing massive flooding from the latest weather bomb, the second in the space of a week. People are having to leave their homes and their possessions as the floodwaters rise. […]
Read More →We’re winning on fossil fuel divestment
MIL OSI – Source: Green Party – Press Release/Statement Headline: We’re winning on fossil fuel divestment The climate movement took a big step forward this week when our largest council voted to divest from fossil fuel investments. Auckland Council has now joined Dunedin, Melbourne, San Francisco, Washington DC, Copenhagen, and a host of other cities […]
Read More →Across the Ditch: Remants of Cyclone Debbie Drenches New Zealand + Ram Raid Artwork Heist
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ [embedded content] Across the Ditch: Australia radio FiveAA.com.au’s Peter Godfrey and EveningReport.nz’s Selwyn Manning deliver their weekly bulletin Across the Ditch. This week Weather + Headlines + Cyclone Debbie Downgraded but the deluge has drenched New Zealand. Weather + Headlines ITEM ONE – Debbie Deluge Hits New Zealand New Zealand has […]
Read More →Protecting our environment and native species
MIL OSI – Source: Green Party – Press Release/Statement Headline: Protecting our environment and native species Aotearoa is a truly beautiful place, and we want to keep it that way. We’re working hard to make sure that we can still have rivers to swim in, native birds to listen to, and water you can safely drink. […]
Read More →Vivid’s Report Will Help Parliament Debate the Climate
MIL OSI – Source: Green Party – Press Release/Statement Headline: Vivid’s Report Will Help Parliament Debate the Climate On Tuesday evening, I hosted the launch in the Beehive Theatrette of a report which could prove to be a game-changer in the long and somewhat agonised saga that is New Zealand’s policy debate on climate. Present […]
Read More →Hiatus to end soon
MIL OSI – MIL OSI – Source: Hot Topic – By Gareth Renowden – Analysis published with permission of Hot-Topic.co.nz Headline: Hiatus to end soon It’s three months since Jim Renwick’s demolition of Guy McPherson’s enthusiastic doom-mongering, and I have been remiss in not following up with more topical observations. It’s not as though there’s any […]
Read More →Desperate marketing from the fossil fuel industry
MIL OSI – Source: Green Party – Press Release/Statement Headline: Desperate marketing from the fossil fuel industry The oil and gas industry has launched a marketing campaign in New Zealand to try and convince people how great its dirty fossil fuel products are. I’m not surprised. The fossil fuel industry is no stranger to desperate […]
Read More →COP23 president Bainimarama to ‘reach out’ to Trump over climate
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Flashback to Fiji in 2015 and the Pacific call for NZ to do more on climate change. Reporter Niklas Pedersen Video: Pacific Media Centre By Pasifik/Pacnews Fijian Prime Minister and incoming COP23 president Voreqe Bainimarama says he intends to use his position to reach out to US President […]
Read More →350.org Pacific calls on Suckling to stop ‘slap in face’ support for coal mine
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Australia’s Patrick Suckling … criticised over his support for the Adani Carmichael coal mine. Image: DPS Srinagar The climate change advocacy group 350.org Pacific today called on Patrick Suckling, the Australian government’s Ambassador for the Environment, to immediately remove his support for the Adani Carmichael coal mine. If […]
Read More →Report pours cold water on govt renewable energy initiative
MIL OSI – Source: Green Party – Press Release/Statement Headline: Report pours cold water on govt renewable energy initiative The Government’s National Policy Statement on Renewable Energy Generation has been slammed as ineffective by an official report. Ten years ago, the previous Government began work on developing a National Policy Statement (NPS) on Renewable Energy […]
Read More →Re-think trade deals for a fair and clean economy
MIL OSI – Source: Green Party – Press Release/Statement Headline: Re-think trade deals for a fair and clean economy Donald Trump didn’t kill the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), popular opinion did. Trump – and Hillary Clinton for that matter – wouldn’t have campaigned against the TPPA if they didn’t think that would align them with […]
Read More →Biman Prasad: COP23 presidency — facing the gravity of the task for Fiji
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz The narrativeIt is noteworthy that there was no communications or consultations nationally, regionally or internationally as Fiji lobbied to get the presidency for COP23 in Marrakech. Even our fellow members of the Pacific and SIDS (Small Islands Developing States) were caught unaware. A robust consultation nationally would have […]
Read More →Well, THAT happened – Kennedy Graham reflects on 2016
MIL OSI – Source: Green Party – Press Release/Statement Headline: Well, THAT happened – Kennedy Graham reflects on 2016 Every year is special, but 2016 has been extraordinary. We are, I think, witness to two global revolutions, occurring simultaneously. One is of a world uniting. The other is of a world fragmenting. This push-and-pull, yin […]
Read More →New energy strategy a missed opportunity
MIL OSI – Source: Green Party – Press Release/Statement Headline: New energy strategy a missed opportunity You’d be forgiven for not noticing that the Government published a new draft energy strategy this week. It’s basically the same as the old energy strategy, which they published in 2011, but with one new target around industrial process […]
Read More →Greenpeace video shows NZ oil seismic blasts ‘betrayal’ over climate change
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz The Schlumberger seismic survey vessel, Amazon Warrior, seismic blasting approximately 120 nautical miles off the East Coast of New Zealand’s North Island. Video: Nigel Marple/Greenpeace Greenpeace NZ has released aerial footage from a reconnaissance flight of the world’s biggest seismic ship, the Amazon Warrior, blasting for oil 120 […]
Read More →Guy McPherson and the end of humanity (not)
MIL OSI – MIL OSI – Source: Hot Topic – By Gareth Renowden – Analysis published with permission of Hot-Topic.co.nz Headline: Guy McPherson and the end of humanity (not) Ecologist Guy McPherson has been touring New Zealand for the past couple of weeks, explaining why humanity has only 10 years to live (a kind-of Ziggy message […]
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