NZ’s Climate Change Ministry scores spectacular own goal – praises well-known sceptic
New Zealand’s Ministry for the Environment has sent a letter of praise to the author of two bestselling books debunking human caused global warming, telling him that “New Zealand needs people like you”.
Ian Wishart, who penned the climate change book Air Con and the sequel Totalitaria, was stunned to receive in the mail a letter this week on Ministry for the Environment paper, headlined “2014 Green Ribbon Award nomination from Mr David Slack for Global Warming Truth”.
“Congratulations on your recent Green Ribbon Award nomination,” the letter began. “These national awards recognise the outstanding contributions of individuals, businesses and communities to protecting and improving our environment.”
While informing Wishart that he had not made the finals, the Ministry’s Deputy Secretary for Organisational Performance Mark Sowden wrote, “I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the work you are doing. I commend you on your effort and commitment.
“New Zealand needs people like you who contribute every day to protecting and enhancing our environment. You should be very proud to have your work and passion recognised and I encourage you to keep working towards a clean, green New Zealand.”
Full story and letter here: http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/12757/nzs-climate-change-ministry-scores-spectacular-goal-praises-well-known-sceptic/
Perhaps they are learning from the Aussies. I’m sure they would disagree, but from here the two countries look similar. For example, they appear to be the only two countries in the Anglosphere where you can buy PediaSure in powder form.
Q, What do you call a cultured Australian?
A. A New Zealander.
(It’s great to read that there is still lots of fun between you two nations. I enjoyed my time living among you)
“Tis well you know the common English! Cause iffen you’d said “lives between you two nations”, your feet would be wet. (Or do youse guys stand on two meters nowday?)
Susan Oliver says:
May 29, 2014 at 12:10 am
New Zealand has a conservative government – maybe it was intentional.
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New Zealand has a government of idiots who are
sleep-walking into the future with their eyes wide
shut.
With motor vehicle fuels teetering on the brink of
becoming very scarce and very expensive, over the
next fifteen years, they are continuing to encourage
urban sprawl by building more motorways. They pay
lip service to “public” transport by selling publicly
owned and operated organisations off into private
hands which egregiously refuse to cooperate with each
other and defend their `licensed’ territories as rigid
inefficient monopolies instead of cooperating for the
greater good of getting people out of their cars.
Of course, this makes trying to travel anywhere in NZ’s
cities an exercise in frustration because nothing meets
up with anything else and nothing is reliable any more.
Come to NZ and if you try to use public transport, then
on your own head be it. Citizens run *several* motor vehicles
to be sure of being able to get to where they need to go reliably.
Hilly terrain renders bicycles in many urbs unusable, except
Christchurch which is flat. Predatory drivers make any trip
by bicycle particularly exciting, if not suicidal, and earthquakes
in Christchurch add a … special piquancy.
Auckland City is already suffering the consequences with almost
all day gridlock. Not bad for a city of a mere 1 million or so…
Wellington (pop approx. 200,000) is almost as bad. There are only
1 million people in the whole South Island but it snows in winter, rains
in summer, and shakes in between
We here in NZ [via the current Government] are playing a waiting game; we didn’t sign-up to Kyoto2 and have allowed cheap EU carbon credits to swamp the market.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/brian-fallow/news/article.cfm?a_id=16&objectid=10846305
Our Prime Minister thought CAGW was all BS before he got into power; now his Govt just kicks the can down the road, watches the fiasco in Australia re carbon taxes etc etc, and knows that the scam is slowly coming to an end.
My guess is the dose of reality being taken by the EU via Putin’s threats will lead to ETS’s etc dropping off the political radar by 2020. Remember the EU’s airline ETS – quietly buried when China said “No”.
Thank you John:
John de Melle says: May 29, 2014 at 10:23 am
Q, What do you call a cultured Australian?
A. A New Zealander.
I was too embarrassed to say it myself;
also, if you can’t cheer for NZ, always cheer for anyone playing against Australia!
“A A New Zealander”
As Prime Minister Muldoon said of NZers migrating to Australia.. “It improves the IQ of both nations.”
JC
An earlier NZ Prime Minister, David Lange, said he was happy with the continuing emigration of New Zealanders to Australia “because it increased the average IQ in both countries”.
Well, It appears we have some dissenters and differences of opinion.
So just how many NZ Prime Ministers did say emigrating to Australia raised the IQ of both countries. I thought it was Muldoon myself, but it seems like a popular pastime.
And I have always said, if you can’t find a Kiwi to cheer for, cheer for the nearest Aussie.
Sounds like Sophocles is a candidate for emigration to Australia.
When I last visited in 2006, I found the Auckland public transport to be duck soup to use. But I always walked everywhere when I was a kid; or took a train, and driving in either island was a breeze for me in 2006. But then, I do have a California drivers licence NZ driving or pedestringing, is simple compared to the idiocy we have in California, with cars and pedestrians moving on the same piece of road at the same time. No roundabouts, or Barnes Dance in California.
And bicyclists in California, are just domestic terrorists.
It sounds like Sophoclies is a member off the Green Party. The Prime Minister is a conservative and appears to have little time for the warmist/green dialogue of the NZ media.
“sophocles says:
May 29, 2014 at 1:03 pm”
I am a New Zealander living in Australia. I am also British. I used to live in Wellington and then Featherston, in the Wairarapa over the Rimutaka Hill road on state highway 2. In the 50’s, or there abouts, there was an American Army base stationed in the Wairarapa. The then commander of the base offered to build a road from Upper Hutt across the Rimutaka Hill road, eliminating the current, highly dangerous road, and single rail tunnel. The offer was out right refused on the grounds that no-one would live that far north of Wellington and it would cost too much. Around the same time the rail siding to Martinbourough was ripped up leaving one single road, which does flood out, in to and out of that town, State Highway 53.
It takes as long to drive from Wellington to Auckland as it does to drive from Swindon to Endinborough. And about 50% of road user charges (RUC’s) goes into the consolidated fund, largely to fund politicians pensions!
A key question remains: “Does New Zealand really need people like Mark Sowden?”