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CJames

To preempt Stephiegirl and milky continuing to bleat on about the fire storms in Austalia being caused by climate change, here are graphs created from the BoM data
Annual rainfall in NSW: https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/rranom.nsw_.0706.27902.png
Spring rainfall: https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/rranom.nsw_.0911.49852.png
The drought maps shows VIC wasn’t in significant drought.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/20191205.drought1.lr_.col_.gif
For temperatures, go onto the BoM website and chose a relevant “rural” station with data going back to 19th Century like say Maryborough, http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=36&p_display_type=dataFile&p_startYear=&p_c=&p_stn_num=088043
or Gabo Lighthouse; http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=36&p_display_type=dataFile&p_startYear=&p_c=&p_stn_num=088043
Guess what? The weather has been hot and dry, but nothing out of the ordinary. Definitely not unprecedented or even exceptional. The Federation drought was a lot worse.
The BoM create their publicity graphs by using a lot of stations with very short histories, or excluding the early info, because it gives the “wrong” impression. And suckers fall for it because it tells them what they want to hear.
If it isn’t the heat or the rainfall, what makes now different? It is the various governments’ policies, be it at local, state or Federal level. Rules made by people who don’t know history or wanting to appease a woke group. That is where the blame for the devastation from the fires lays. The Green apologists can spin all they like, and continue to trot out their Guardian or SMH opinion pieces, but the facts defeat them. They are at fault and have been caught out. They can’t talk facts so deal in feelings.
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January 4, 2020 8:00am
- CJames
  
  To add to the proof that it is political mismanagement, 5 years ago, Victoria’s bushfire scientist warned that the government’s policies of preventing fuel reduction planned burns will lead to disaster.
  https://amp.theage.com.au/national/victoria/bushfire-scientist-david-packham-warns-of-huge-blaze-threat-urges-increase-in-fuel-reduction-burns-20150312-14259h.html
  And the same Labour government is in power now
  
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  January 4, 2020 9:08am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    This latest disaster will stoke the flames for the reform of regulations governing eucalyptus fuel management.
    
    The Australians will have to act. This kind of nonsense is killing people and making the situation worse than it need be.
    
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    January 4, 2020 10:29am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      The folks in Australia seem to have 2 choices:
      
      http://joannenova.com.au/2020/01/fire-policy-shift-government-says-hazard-reduction-to-stop-fires-labor-says-carbon-market/:
      
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      January 4, 2020 10:59am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    I wish the fuel load question was being properly discussed and really analysed, instead of the MSM just pouncing only on climate change.
    
    Whether or not there is climate change involved, a dangerous fuel load is the only thing that can keep these huge fires burning.
    
    Occasionally, when fuel load does come up in the Australian media, some commentator claims that because of climate change there is too short a window for burn-offs. Then another replies that’s not true, their local greenies just forbade burn-offs.
    
    So where are the facts?
    
    And I’m not arguing pro or anti climate change here, my point is that in drought conditions fuel will burn, so must be reduced.
    
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    January 4, 2020 1:39pm
- mjw
  
  So you are saying using more data gives less reliable results?
  
  I don’t think that is a very scientific approach. You should use all the data available.
  
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  January 4, 2020 9:49am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Only if it is OK.
    The quality of met data is often appalling. Instances:
    Measured alongside jet exhausts at airports;
    Adjusted data so it accords with leaked emails recommendations as followed in NZ;
    Computed from that of far away sites in the absence of actual measurements at a specific location.
    
    Over 1/3 of the data used by the UN climates models is itself computed as there are no sensors in many places. The grid itself is large too as the computations would otherwise be impossible. Binary doesn’t do precise numbers easily so errors require rounding to be recycled for the next iteration.
    The future of the world hinges on computers and Greta–not.
    
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    January 4, 2020 10:39am
  - CJames
    
    No mjw. They do not use “more data” . They don’t compare apples with oranges. It is easy to get hottest on record with 15 years of data. Not so easy with 150 years. And they smear data so results from one station are used to “correct” those nearby. Especially important when you sight new equipment in carparks or next to runways and that adjusts the properly sited info.
    They also don’t use all the data. No rainfall before 1900 and no temperatures before 1910, so they drop about 50 years of data.
    
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    January 4, 2020 10:45am
  - tf78
    
    If you take climate data from 1970 until now instead of 1870 you will get entirely different results. Earlier data shows that what is happening now is not at all unusual.
    
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    January 4, 2020 12:25pm
- Stephieboy2
  
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  CJames,
  
  As I’ve suggested before it is all pretty straightforward,
  
  “Australia fires: A very simple guide”
  
  Australia is fighting one of its worst bushfire seasons, fuelled by record-breaking temperatures and months of severe drought
  
  Why are the fires so bad?
  
  Australia has always experienced bushfires – it has what’s known as a fire season – but this year they are a lot worse than normal.
  
  The immediate cause is weather, specifically a phenomenon known as the Indian Ocean Dipole, which has meant a hot, dry spell.
  
  This year, Australia twice set a new temperature record: an average maximum of 40.9C was recorded on 17 December, broken a day later by 41.9C.
  
  That comes on top of a long period of drought. Some fires are also started deliberately.
  
  Is this climate change?
  
  The overwhelming scientific consensus is that rising levels of CO2 are warming the planet.
  
  Australia has been getting hotter over recent decades and is expected to continue doing so.
  
  While fires are a natural part of the Australian weather cycle, scientists have long warned that this hotter, drier climate will contribute to fires becoming more frequent and more intense.
  The more extreme weather patterns and higher temperatures increase the risk of bushfires and allow them to spread faster and wider….”
  
  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-50980386
  
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  January 4, 2020 9:52am
  - CJames
    
    As usual, Stephie Girl, Stupid is is stupid does – A bbc link – great data – NOT. Come back when your braincells return
    
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    January 4, 2020 10:39am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    The BBC is disqualified as it has stated it rejection of any other viewpoint than its own.
    
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    January 4, 2020 10:41am
  - Sydney Alvarado
    
    On a related issue. Water. 80 percent of Sydney water comes from Warragamba Dam. It is an enormous dam but it opened in 1960 when Sydney was a fraction of the size. There have been no dams built since, despite many suitable sites around Sydney. Because a new dam would be opposed by so many vocal groups.
    
    If the drought persists for a further two years, Sydney could come close to running out of water.
    
    For Australia to deal with the threats of drought, climate change etc they need the post war mentality of “Just get on and do it. “ That means two nuclear power plants and new large urban water supply dams for South East Australia. I’m not optimistic. The solution is so compelling so it is bound to never happen.
    
    On a smaller scale we have the same slow moving disaster in New Zealand. Ruinous resource management and planning laws. And billions wasted on useless programs and policies. I have never been so pessimistic about New Zealand’s future. For people with money it will still be OK. But the country will decline relative to the rest of the world, similar to the slide that Argentina commenced after WW2. And just like Argentina it will be totally preventable.
    
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    January 4, 2020 11:02am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Australia hasn’t been getting ‘hotter over the decades’
    You were shown the Newspaper articles from the 1800’s and early 1900′ where it was a lot hotter.
    You were also told , and shown again by CJames how the data given today in not corrupted.
    It doesn’t include earlier HOT temps.
    You also think that because it is not the fires start themselves.
    The real problem is you are too stupid to get it.
    Meanwhile 200 people have been arrested for arson.
    
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    January 4, 2020 12:49pm
- Scott
  
  CJames – completely agree that is not due to climate change. Take a moment and Google about the Australian heatwave and resultant fires in 1896. Apparently the heat was so severe that the temperature got to almost 50°C. It was so hot that 400 people died. It was so hot that birds fell from the sky and people dropped dead in the street. Emergency trains were laid on so that people could escape to the cooler mountains.
  
  So Australia has had heat waves before. The problem is not climate change. It is the poor management of the forests which is to blame due to the extreme environmentalists.
  
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  January 4, 2020 10:01am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Population increases have made living in suburbs where trees are encouraged popular too. I have seen that in the South of Brisbane. The whole area could be flooded with fire from the mingling of eucalypts and people.
    
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    January 4, 2020 10:45am
  - Surely Knott
    
    There are no articles in nz papers on bush fire management and it’s science and history. None -not a single article, on bush fire management and the role that this played in the fire. Despite this being the biggest issue raised by the volunteer fire association in Australia, and the history of cool burning and bush management by Aboriginal people. This is what the information and discussion should be about. But the journalists just want to run everything through their single issue climate change advocacy framework. Or criticisms of Scott Morrison because he is not hugging firefighters.
    
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    January 4, 2020 2:58pm
- JackRabbit
  
  The Green movement. Destroying the environment and economies since 1971.
  
  And why Patrick Moore, one of the original founders of Greenpeace resigned from the organisation and does not buy into Climate Change.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Moore_(consultant)
  
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  January 4, 2020 10:25am
- CJames
  
  Here from that rightwing denialist website, Wikipedia, are the droughts that BoM don’t take into consideration in their data analysis.
  850 Severe drought, with big losses of livestock across inland New South Wales and around the western rivers region.
  1864–66 (and 1868). The little data available indicates that this drought period was rather severe in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia. This drought also helped fires in the Australia outback at the time.
  1877 All states affected by severe drought, with disastrous losses in Queensland. In Western Australia many native trees died, swamps dried up and crops failed.
  1880 to 1886 Drought in Victoria (northern areas and Gippsland); New South Wales (mainly northern wheat belt, Northern Tablelands and south coast); Queensland (1881–86, in south-east with breaks – otherwise mainly in coastal areas, the central highlands and central interior in 1883–86); and South Australia (1884–86, mainly in agricultural areas).
  1888 Extremely dry in Victoria (northern areas and Gippsland); Tasmania (1887–89 in the south); New South Wales had the driest year since records began; Queensland (1888–89) had a very severe drought, with much native scrub dying and native animals perishing; South Australia had one of its most severe droughts; and Western Australia (central agricultural areas) lost many sheep.[8]
  1897 Drought in much of Queensland, compared to 1883–84 droughts.[9]
  Note that many of these droughts were in areas now burning.
  Add the historical rainfall data into the analysis and a totally different picture emerges.
  
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  January 4, 2020 10:50am
curry4me

President Trump proves there’s more than one way to skin a cat.
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2019/12/trumps-offer-mexico-could-not-refuse.html#more
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January 4, 2020 8:07am
Luke Piewalker

More 2020 predictions

1. Trump wins in a landslide
2. DPF moves to 5 TDS blogs per week
3. Ardern given the boot in October
4. National repair the treasury books which Labour left in taters
5. Media Party funding cut off
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January 4, 2020 8:08am
- KevO'Brien
  
  ☑️☑️Rout2020☑️☑️
  
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  January 4, 2020 10:46am
- Ruahine
  
  I like N0 5.
  
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  January 4, 2020 11:03am
- Sydney Alvarado
  
  I so miss ipredict. Forcing it to close was an incredibly stupid decision by the last government.
  
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  January 4, 2020 11:05am
- suzieq
  
  What have spuds got to do with this?
  
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  January 4, 2020 2:52pm
Biscuit

Smiled when I read this elsewhere:

My review of the decade.
“Ok, so far”

Those pedants who attempt to the pull the tiresome ‘The decade doesnt begin till 2021′ are invited to (censored)’.
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January 4, 2020 8:17am
- JackRabbit
  
  They don’t understand the concept that counting starts from zero, taught from a very early age.
  
  Makes you wonder if the said pedants actually had an education.
  
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  January 4, 2020 11:16am
  - Ed Snack
    
    There. Was. No . Year. 0
    
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    January 4, 2020 1:46pm
JibberJabber

Democratic leaders condemn the Trump administration for failing to inform Congress of Soleimani attack
While senior congressional Democrats agree Soleimani was an “enemy” of the United States, leaders condemned the Trump administration for not notifying Congress ahead of the airstrike that killed the Iran Quds Force commander. On the Senate floor, Chuck Schumer said “the need for advance consultation and transparency with Congress was put in the Constitution for a reason.”

There is a very valid reason the Democretins are kept out of the loop, they just cannot be trusted, simple as that.
And now they are pissed off because Trump hasn`t killed as many foreign citizens as Bomber Obama and his Nobel or dragged the world into WW3.
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January 4, 2020 8:36am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Ilhan Omar would have tweeted within 20 seconds, warning Iran
  
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  January 4, 2020 10:25am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Hello? Is there anybody out there?
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January 4, 2020 8:41am
- Jack5
  
  Switch on your torch, Steve, so we can see you at the back of the cave. ?
  
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  January 4, 2020 8:52am
Maggy Wassilieff

How wealth and power have corrupted climate science:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerpielke/2020/01/02/how-billionaires-tom-steyer-and-michael-bloomberg-corrupted-climate-science/#5f53fd7e702c
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January 4, 2020 8:41am
- Ruahine
  
  Why am I not surprised. As I have heard many times ‘always follow the money’ bit like that other great saying: cui bono, “who benefits”.
  Still not convinced that 400ppm of CO2 is going to bring human life to an end.
  Vegetation will probably be happy though.
  
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  January 4, 2020 9:00am
- Chuck Bird
  
  The writer claims
  
  “Before proceeding, let’s make a few things absolutely clear. There is no doubt that climate change is real, and is significantly influenced by our activities, particularly through the emissions of carbon dioxide.”
  
  No one knows how much CO2 effects the climate. It may be signifagant but it may not be. There are just too many variables.
  
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  January 4, 2020 9:11am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Exactly. And his assertion that ‘climate change is real’ is the result of the flawed research and subsequent policy that his article so handsomely debunks.
    
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    January 4, 2020 9:15am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      It can’t be the result of research. There are many grey areas that real scientists would acknowledge. It is it not even certain if CO2 is actually a green house gas. It’s use as a plant food is proven by horticulturalists but Arrhenius’s work published in 1896 is still in doubt.
      
      The drive for one world government, the money and political power is what is driving it all. Island states are hoping for massive transfers of wealth to compensate them for their fraud that their islands are sinking. Some of those have been outgrown and the human weight has had an effect! Look North of us to Kiripati.
      
      Al Gore runs a carbon market–he makes money off advocating climate change.
      Honesty and integrity is scarce. No one disagrees that it is undesirable to soil ones nest but planetary housekeeping issues have nothing to do with climate although often conflated.
      
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      January 4, 2020 11:01am
      - JackRabbit
        
        >>>It is it not even certain if CO2 is actually a green house gas.
        
        CO2 being heavier than air, if undisturbed, tends to drift closer to the ground where plants can gobble it up.
        
        CO2 /oxygen density ratio is higher at the bottom of a large undisturbed container than at the top.
        For example, in large grain silos where CO2 can chemically build up, the CO2 sinks more to the bottom. A worker who walks directly into the bottom of the silo may find that he has too much CO2/not enough oxygen and can’t breath properly.
        
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        January 4, 2020 11:23am
      - tf78
        
        Maybe the Islanders could all go on diets and their islands wouldn’t sink.
        
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        January 4, 2020 1:25pm
      - Ed Snack
        
        Jackrabbit, in general it is reasonable to conclude that the atmosphere is relatively well mixed as it is a turbulent environment. There is some sorting of CO2, but not a lot. Closed environments like a silo are significantly different and stratification will often occur if left undisturbed.
        
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        January 4, 2020 1:49pm
      - Ed Snack
        
        Also note that CO2 does have active absorption bands in the infrared. These are largely saturated but there is additional absorption that can occur at the edges and a higher concentration adds depth to the absorption pathway.
        
        The classic effect of higher CO2 should be a decrease in the diurnal temperature variation, that is the earth will cool marginally less at night as more of the IR radiation energy is transferred to various molecules in the air, so less IR is lost to space.
        
        Temperature readings are not independent, they have a significant history component, that is each day is not independent of the temperature history, so a hot day has some influence on the next days temperature, a kind of “temperature memory” if you will. This BTW does complicate statistical treatment of temperature records as classic statistical measures give incorrect results when applied to such data – to be mildly technical the data is auto-correlated with a non zero p value.
        
        So warmer nights do lead to warmer days to some extent, but the primary effect of CO2 enrichment is not hotter daytime temperatures, that will potentially occur but more or less as a side effect because the day starts warmer than it otherwise might.
        
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        January 4, 2020 2:00pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    But here’s the extraordinary thing, Roger Pielke like Judith Curry, is a supporter of the CO2-Global Warming hypothesis, but both were vilified by the alarmist set when they sought real-time data and questioned the dodgy pronouncements of those reliant on climate models.
    
    https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/ross-mckitrick-this-scientist-proved-climate-change-isnt-causing-extreme-weather-so-politicians-attacked
    
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    January 4, 2020 9:23am
    - Stephieboy2
      
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      Judith Curry
      
      Credentials
      
      PhD, Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago (1982). [1]
      B.S., Geography, Northern Illinois University (1974). [1]
      
      Background
      
      Judith A. Curry is the former chairman (2002 – 2014) and former professor at the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Judith Curry resigned from her position at Georgia Tech on January 1, 2017, citing the “craziness” of climate science, and plans to focus on her private business, Climate Forecast Applications Network. Judith Curry continues to write and speak prolifically on the climate change issue and run the blog Climate Etc. [1], [42], [43]
      
      Judith Curry has been invited by Republicans to testify at climate change hearings regarding alleged uncertainties regarding man-made climate change. She has also participated in a variety of blogs in the skeptical science community including Climate Audit, the Air Vent , and others. [2], [3]
      Curry has been criticized by climate scientists for her climate outreach in the blogosphere based on assertions not necessarily supported by the evidence: particularly that the “climate always changes.” [4]
      
      Scientist Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, points out that “Climate doesn’t change all by itself for no good reason. Something has to force it.” [4]
      
      Fossil Fuel Funding
      
      When she was questioned about potential conflicts of interest, this was Curry’s response to Scientific American: [5]
      
      “I do receive some funding from the fossil fuel industry. My company…does [short-term] hurricane forecasting…for an oil company, since 2007. During this period I have been both a strong advocate for the IPCC, and more recently a critic of the IPCC, there is no correlation of this funding with my public statements.”
      
      https://www.desmogblog.com/judith-curry
      
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      January 4, 2020 10:04am
      - JackRabbit
        
        Stephieboy2
        
        Ignoring truth discrediting opponents since forever.
        
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        January 4, 2020 10:51am
      - KevO'Brien
        
        Why do you persist in referencing those who have abandoned scientific independence?
        ~~Scientific American.~~ No longer, it is like the USAAS of which I was once a member.
        
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        January 4, 2020 11:05am
      - Kabull
        
        Steffie, you complain about ‘fossil fuel funding’ but I haven’t seen you ‘complain’ about Government funding? How do you think climate change ‘scientists’ such as James Renwick stay afloat? Why, of course they produce work that meets the requirements of their funders. Also, look what happened to the late David Bellamy, who was ‘deplatformed’ and ignored as soon as he spoke against the populist mantra. Mot like Attenborough, who continues to make millions from politically correct tripe about how the earth is dying.
        
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        January 4, 2020 5:35pm
  - Justitia
    
    Climate change, which is continuous, is driven primarily by orbital and solar variations. The trace gas CO2 has little to do with it, apart from increased levels being a product – not a cause – of warming. No need to thank me.
    
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    January 4, 2020 9:25am
    - JackRabbit
      
      Stephieboy2 doesn’t get it.
      
      If he stood close to a campfire and got burned, he would say that distance to the campfire has no effect on temperature.
      
      He would instead launch a campaign to blame his mates for eating too many takeaways resulting in farting too much, thereby raising the campfire temperature due to the increased methane and CO2.
      
      There is no logic in his brain. He has no awareness of science, and no ability to form rational thought.
      
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      January 4, 2020 10:32am
    - Stephieboy2
      
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      Justita,
      
      “No need to thank me.’
      
      ???
      
      “Greenhouse gases affect Earth’s energy balance and climate”
      
      ( Which include C02)
      
      “Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, including water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, absorb heat energy and emit it in all directions (including downwards), keeping Earth’s surface and lower atmosphere warm. Adding more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere enhances the effect, making Earth’s surface and lower atmosphere even warmer. Image based on a figure from US EPA
      
      Greenhouse gases emitted by human activities alter Earth’s energy balance and thus its climate. Humans also affect climate by changing the nature of the land surfaces (for example by clearing forests for farming) and through the emission of pollutants that affect the amount and type of particles in the atmosphere.
      
      Scientists have determined that, when all human and natural factors are considered, Earth’s climate balance has been altered towards warming, with the biggest contributor being increases in CO2….”
      
      https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-change-evidence-causes/basics-of-climate-change/
      
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      January 4, 2020 10:39am
      - JackRabbit
        
        @Stephieboy2
        
        A 40 second burst from a Dew weapon, or weather modification machine, the latter of which have been around nearly a century, wlll have more effect on the planet than 87 billion cows farting in unison for the next 72 years.
        
        The earth tilting on its axis, as it does several times a year, altering the relative distance and exposure to the sun and thereby amount of heating heating. You might be familiar with this, it is called spring, summer, autumn and winter.
        
        Note that summer is more hotter than winter, and in some parts the world make summer can be tens of degrees hotter than winter. All because of inclination. Life would radically change if the seasons were permanently stuck in summer or winter.
        
        Now add in distance to the sun, which varies substantially. It may not be substantial to you, but it is substantial to planet earth. The amount of solar radiation varies substantially with distance.
        
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        January 4, 2020 11:08am
      - KevO'Brien
        
        Now you quote that renegade bunch of fossils the Royal Society!
        
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        January 4, 2020 11:09am
      - Justitia
        
        Stephie: CO2 comprises 0.04% of the atmosphere. Human generated CO2 emissions are estimated to make up 3 percent of that 0.04%. CO2 levels on Earth have been far higher than at present but somehow life has struggled on, in fact it has been enhanced by them. Global cooling is a far greater threat to the existence of humanity. You need to look at the geological record to understand climate variability on Earth, not some tarted up graphs showing selected records for the last 50 or 100 years. Climate “science” is being manipulated for the purpose of controlling society, but you probably knew that already.
        
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        January 4, 2020 11:16am
  - G152
    
    They had a scare program on TV last night.
    Acid sea.
    Proof.
    Well, it worked in a lab with test tubes and did we know that shell fish didn’t have 100% spat survival rate and its all owing to CO2 making the sea acidic.
    Their breeding system allowed many spat to survive in tanks in controlled conditions but when they let them out into the real world reality struck 🙂
    Trouble was their filming included free swimming spat and loads of small fish doing their thing.
    
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    January 4, 2020 9:49am
- krazykiwi
  
  The key para:
  
  The scientific peer review process has failed to catch obvious methodological errors in research papers. Leading scientific assessments have ignored conflicts of interest and adopted flawed methods. The media has been selectively incurious as to the impact of big money on climate advocacy.
  
  This is a story of how wealth and power have corrupted science in pursuit of political goals.
  
  There are possibly 1000s of Steyers and Bloombergs at work in scientific and policy fields. We are being duped. Big time.
  
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  January 4, 2020 9:13am
- Tall Man
  
  The site doesn’t like my adblocker.
  
  I don’t like their ads.
  
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  January 4, 2020 9:38am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    What ads? ABP
    
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    January 4, 2020 10:28am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Any site rejecting my protection scheme is ignored. I need them less than I need their intrusion.
    
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    January 4, 2020 11:11am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      “We notice that you are using Adbloc Plus, please turn it off to continue”
      Foxtrot Oscar
      
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      January 4, 2020 11:45am
  - Tall Man
    
    TBH, never seen them but I don’t like pop up ads full stop.
    
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    January 4, 2020 12:02pm
    - Liberty
      
      Try Brave
      No more adverts 🙂
      
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      January 4, 2020 1:54pm
      - curry4me
        
        I’ll second that. And Duck Duck Go for search. No nosey Google for me.
        
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        January 4, 2020 7:44pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    I find the ads very amusing. Some system seems to be making strange assumptions about me :)…
    
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    January 4, 2020 1:49pm
Fletch

I heard a story on NewsTalk how the libs now want to change the menu of food served in hospital here to include less meat and dairy and make it more “plant based”. Oh, good grief…

edit – the story in the Herald.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12294843

The new “sustainability guidelines”

https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/publications/sustainability-and-the-health-sector-30jul2019_1.pdf

Producing meat (particularly red meat) is resource intensive and has a larger carbon footprint than producing plant-based protein alternatives (Harvie 2008). The health sector can work with staff dietitians to develop alternative patient menus and encourage plant-based diets
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January 4, 2020 8:54am
- sooty
  
  So the new thing when visiting hospitals instead of flowers and grapes, will be Big Macs!
  So the patients don’t starve to death!
  
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  January 4, 2020 9:58am
- GT Build
  
  Well that will empty the beds out
  
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  January 4, 2020 9:59am
- JackRabbit
  
  >>>Producing meat (particularly red meat) is resource intensive and has a larger carbon footprint than producing plant-based protein alternatives (Harvie 2008).
  
  Of course the research is only focused, on one thing, carbon footprint, however I have no doubt the research is flawed.
  
  If the research was extended to recuperation rates and survival rates, the above research would show a lowered survival rate.
  
  As it stands, the annual death toll from secondary infection, and medical misadventure while in hospital is over twice that of the road toll. Cutting out meat will only see that death toll rise.
  
  The danger of taking stats in isolation:
  They could put all hospital patients on a diet of water only, which would drop the carbon footprint to zero. Of course the survival rate would also drop to zero.
  
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  January 4, 2020 11:36am
- tf78
  
  Sounds like Watties baked beans will be on the hospital menus.
  
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  January 4, 2020 1:30pm
  - peterwn
    
    More farting?
    
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    January 4, 2020 6:34pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  Such nonsense in NZ! Our meat production doesn’t have the same ‘carbon footprint’ as factory farming, and our sheep and beef-filled hillsides can’t really be used for much else anyway.
  
  Plus the meat is local, while beans and grains (combination needed for protein) may well need to be imported.
  
  And more importantly for hospitals: people need protein for recovering and rebuilding.
  
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  January 4, 2020 1:52pm
Captain Mainwaring

Wow, over an hour and just two comments appearing.
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January 4, 2020 9:05am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  and it’s the same old crew….
  
  Must look like déjà vu for anyone tuning in each morning.
  
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  January 4, 2020 9:11am
  - krazykiwi
    
    I get to see my own posts while they await moderation. Its kinda like talking to myself 🙂
    
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    January 4, 2020 9:16am
  - Souvlaki
    
    ” Groundhog day”
    
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    January 4, 2020 9:21am
  - The Other Enoch
    
    Nah! It ain’t déjà but. It’s just the same but all over again.
    
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    January 4, 2020 9:22am
  - Tall Man
    
    I do try Maggy but that “delete” button must be so appealing 🙂
    
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    January 4, 2020 9:35am
  - Sydney Alvarado
    
    I know that you this has been commented on endlessly but moderation has profoundly changed Kiwiblog. I’ll still tune in to see what DPF has to say. However “debate“ is not functional in the comments. Busy people don’t have time to return two hours later to reply to someone. I mean today is fine but once back at work it is impossible.
    
    Of course his blog not mine. I’m just saying.
    
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    January 4, 2020 9:42am
    - alwyn
      
      That’s right. It is his blog and he can run it anyway he likes.
      If you don’t like it why don’t you set up one of your own? Then you can make your own rules instead of complaining about other peoples.
      Too hard you say? Can’t be bothered you say? Thought so.
      
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      January 4, 2020 2:49pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  But no good joining in later to try and get some discussion: everyone else has buggered off.
  
  I know, I still do it 🙂
  
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  January 4, 2020 1:55pm
rererangihirihiri

I have a comment.
Aussie snowflakes/chowderheads are commenting about how they wish they had Adern leading them during the bushfire crisis instead of Scotty from marketing.
I say they are welcome to her.
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January 4, 2020 9:14am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  She is over there now. She is welcome to stay. Fuck all use here
  
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  January 4, 2020 10:32am
- tf78
  
  They should be very careful what they wish for.
  
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  January 4, 2020 1:31pm
TWEEDSE

I found this excerpt from an article by Steve Braunias on New years resolutions by our “leaders” rather amusing and sadly true.

” JACINDA ARDERN

Let me be perfectly clear about my New Year’s resolutions. I’m going to get together with my chief press secretary Andrew Campbell and we’ll work on pithy and attractive soundbites that will function as resolutions.

We did the same this time last year and that’s when we came up with my resolution that 2019 would be the government’s Year of Delivery.

I presented it at the caucus retreat in Marlborough. Afterwards, I remember Phil Twyford jumping up and down, and saying, “Year of Delivery! I love it. I can tell you right now that I’m going to deliver.”

And he was true to his word. After I sacked him as housing minister, he found himself with a lot of time on his hands, so I asked him to deliver some mail.

I ran into him recently and he said he hadn’t delivered it yet but was going to.”

Ref
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12297851
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January 4, 2020 9:16am
- krazykiwi
  
  This year we can all help with Ardern’s 2020 slogans:
  – The Year of Resumé
  – The Year of Dithery
  – The Year of Posidividy
  
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  January 4, 2020 10:02am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    I hope she rembers this one:
    ☑️☑️Rout2020☑️☑️
    
    My view is that we will see a repeat of 1975 leaving a strong National majority Government. Winston may or not make it back depending on his health.
    
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    January 4, 2020 11:15am
    - DigNap15
      
      If the disclose more about the NZF Foundation they will not get back at all.
      Especially if National announce that they will not work with them.’
      
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      January 4, 2020 12:02pm
      - KevO'Brien
        
        We all need to keep our eyes open for any info on the NZF Foundation. Lawful it may be but its secrecy does not offer proof.
        
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        January 4, 2020 12:30pm
curry4me

South Africa’s ties with China are deepening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FgpIMwBOvI
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January 4, 2020 9:22am
Chuck Bird

I just read the following.

“What you need to know about cutting down trees on your property”

https://www.finder.com.au/cutting-down-trees-on-your-property

This is madness. If the authorities in Oz do not want a repeat the will have a clear area around towns and allow home owners to remove trees on their property without a permit.
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January 4, 2020 9:28am
- Tall Man
  
  As referenced below, I think councils get hijacked by liars. They run an election campaign full of promises then once elected pursue other goals.
  
  Sound like ardern and “what’s in it for wynston”?
  
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  January 4, 2020 9:34am
  - Paulus
    
    NB
    New Tauranga Council and the Elms Affair – hypocrites and the New Mayor.
    
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    January 4, 2020 11:16am
- kevn
  
  @Chuck… greenie infested local councils.
  Thinking of the farmer who cleared all trees to 100m from his home, was fined $100,000 for his trouble, but was rewarded by his home escaping fire damage while others who stuck with a council approved 6m clearance were razed.
  
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  January 4, 2020 9:47am
- G152
  
  It is by now obvious that the Aussies haven’t learnt that bush fires happen and properties can be protected by removing surrounding trees and fuel loads.
  So be prepared for this to be a yearly media event
  
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  January 4, 2020 10:26am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Texas proved that guns work better than gun control – just saying.
The shooter was a felon and therefore no able to have a firearm.
Keep it up with your criminal hugging PTPM.
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January 4, 2020 9:28am
- MCos
  
  As far as I can ascertain Keith Kinnunen was not convicted of a felony, but a number of misdemeanors.
  He was therefore entitled to wander into the church with a gun. He didn’t burst in as some news reports say, but sat down and later on stood up and killed two people before a volunteer security guard killed him.
  The security guard let him into the church even though he could see he was wearing a disguise. Otherwise he would have recognized him and knew he was mentally unstable.
  
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  January 4, 2020 11:21am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    ‘but a number of misdemeanors?’ So already a bad bastard.
    I did read about him being a convicted felon, can’t remember where. It was not CNN or MSNBC, I am thinking ‘Turning Point USA”
    
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    January 4, 2020 11:49am
Tall Man

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/01/wellington-s-guilty-secret-legacy-landfill-seeps-orange-sludge-onto-popular-beaches.html

So the council would rather spend millions on cycleways but can’t clean up their own rubbish.

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/wellington/wellington-investigates-narrow-cycle-way-in-cbd/

I truly believe they have serious mental issues to think this way.
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January 4, 2020 9:31am
Jack5

Jacinderella’s PR Army must be prioritising work for the international media, which might prove to have been a wise choice if she she loses this year’s election.

In the Daily Mail, usually on the centre-Right, the heading reads: “What REAL leadership looks like: Jacinda Ardern sends Australia another team of heroic firefighters to tackle killer bushfires”.

At the Beehive web site, the tone is more subdue release announcing another 22 firefighters to help fight the Australian fires. It’s made under the name of Ardern and NZ First’s Tracey Martin.

The Ardern boost likely comes from a Daily Mail correspondent who is an Aussie journo keen to roast Scott Morrison.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7847007/Jacinda-Ardern-sends-Australia-team-heroic-firefighters-tackle-killer-bushfires.html
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January 4, 2020 9:33am
- Tall Man
  
  Nothing to do with ardern. NZ has been sending fire fighters to assist in Australia for as long as I can remember.
  
  This is her grabbing much needed headlines. Check out what Canada and the US are sending…… Planes and equipment plus personnel. I guess Trudeau and Trump aren’t as desperate for headlines over another country’s disaster because they actually do things unlike ardern.
  
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  January 4, 2020 10:19am
  - JackRabbit
    
    https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-01-02/la-me-australia-fires-us-helps-firefighters
    
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    January 4, 2020 10:35am
    - Tall Man
      
      Yeah I know but my point was that you don’t see Trump or Trudeau fronting the articles.
      
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      January 4, 2020 11:40am
- John Warren
  
  Oh, c’mon Daily Mail… REALLY!?
  
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  January 4, 2020 10:20am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Read the comments below the article. Running 9-1 saying what an awful PM Jacinda is and she is just a poser
  
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  January 4, 2020 10:47am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Ardern’s mob does have an effective PR team and should be outed on all sightings. They play dirty.
  
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  January 4, 2020 11:18am
  - JackRabbit
    
    That was the strategy used by the German with the bad haircut. It was called the German propaganda machine.
    
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    January 4, 2020 11:43am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Don’t worry, the DM commentators aren’t fooled.
  
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  January 4, 2020 2:04pm
kevn

@Jack… I didn’t realise that JA had her own private army of firefighters she could just dispatch to Aussie.
Then I heard that the Fire Service had actually asked for volunteers and were overwhelmed by the response.
Two different takes.
One virtue signal and the other real.
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January 4, 2020 9:51am
- Wired-one
  
  A bit like Ardern saying “next years tuitions on me”. Arrogant twat.
  
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  January 4, 2020 3:28pm
Fletch

A Buddhist monk trying to pray while being disturbed by a cat who wants petting 🙂

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-monk-cat-idUSKBN1Z20Z2
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January 4, 2020 10:10am
- Jules99
  
  Wonder what the pope would have done.
  
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  January 4, 2020 11:02am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Cats can sometimes ask politely for affection.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2T4caGlK80
  
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  January 4, 2020 11:37am
  - Tall Man
    
    And sometimes not…
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqjB8DGt85U
    
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    January 4, 2020 11:54am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      That cat gave the human fair warning.
      
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      January 4, 2020 12:39pm
Maggy Wassilieff

New Web site documenting the Prime Minister’s “deliveries”
https://maga.net.nz/
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January 4, 2020 10:19am
- Tall Man
  
  I wonder if the mods would allow that website to be inserted as a signature line in a post…….
  
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  January 4, 2020 10:23am
- greybeard
  
  Excellent !
  
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  January 4, 2020 10:28am
- JackRabbit
  
  Awesome
  
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  January 4, 2020 10:36am
- chaos
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Looks like a stupid site. Checked one post out
  
  https://maga.net.nz/hypocrisy-from-cindy/
  
  Looks more like an attempt to create racism and diversion than actually delivering anything on that site, claims it is a lie but gives no actual evidence it is a lie.
  
  And the racism on that site
  
  * Might it be the majority of business owners in the latest tragedy are of a certain skin colour?*
  
  Gee who knew the white helicopter pilots and business were of a certain skin colour. The fund is not just for the Maori owned businesses. We don’t need racist sites like this pushing lies and division that are not there
  
  Ah from the owner of the racist rednecks at ysb.
  
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  January 4, 2020 10:55am
  - Tall Man
    
    Mate when ardern and her trolls tone down the bullshit you would have a point but until the msm stop acting as her pr team we need every bit of publicity we can get to get some of the truth out there.
    
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    January 4, 2020 11:50am
    - chaos
      
      so Tall man point out where the funding for the businesses is based on skin colour as that racist website claims. It isn’t. And sites like that just push the racism angle making things worse. Sites like that and the idiots on ysb that copy posts from here are just as bad as the left were during the key government.
      
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      January 4, 2020 3:19pm
      - tf78
        
        chaos – There are government organizations in NZ where the funding and mentoring is only available to Maori or Island folk.
        
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        January 4, 2020 7:23pm
      - Tall Man
        
        I have no desire to be drawn into this and my comment was made in jest.
        
        However, because of your post I did have a look and I find your outrage a little over the top. Suggesting something as the article does is different than what you are stating. It is a supposition of the writer.
        
        Perhaps you could explain why the business owners in Auckland have been denied financial assistance while the road/rail construction has virtually crippled their business. Obviously White island is a terrible tragedy but the offer of assistance does seem premature especially if the businesses carried some level of natural disaster insurance.
        
        I think a cuppa and a lie down may help ?
        
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        January 4, 2020 9:50pm
  - Rich Prick
    
    You know “racist” is no longer a slur, everything is racist these days.
    
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    January 4, 2020 2:57pm
- chaos
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  I’m really surprised Maggy that with all your posts asking Stephie to stop calling you certain things that you would link to what is basically inaccurate and racists. Thought more of you than that but alas you are on the racist redneck ysb.
  
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  January 4, 2020 11:07am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Gosh Chaos,
    a personal attack on me for linking to a site you don’t approve of.
    
    Do I post racist comments on that site? NO!
    Do I support racist attitudes? NO
    Do I accept that RACE is a meaningful concept when applied to humans? NO and you’re welcome to check through the Archives of KB to see that I am consistent on that point.
    
    Do I visit sites and read material that other commenters on KB disapprove of? YES.
    
    Did I make any comment as to whether the MAGA site was great or revolting? No
    
    I’m an adult and I’ve learnt to think for myself and in my wilful way, I will continue to do so…
    
    I assume you are an adult, Chaos.. and can think for yourself… and express your own opinions… Go for it…
    but do you really want to join the anonymous group of trolls who organise hit jobs against me here on KB?
    
    I’m in the phone book, feel free to contact me personally if you need more details of why I post on various sites.
    
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    January 4, 2020 1:18pm
    - sam green
      
      Good you’re “doing your bit” though.
      
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      January 4, 2020 2:00pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Yep,
        I believe information about politicians’ promises and actions are deserving of our attention.
        
        The MSM doesn’t keep us well informed…
        
        I’m happy to highlight yet another political site on this forum which strangely enough attracts folks interested in NZ politics.
        
        If you think I shouldn’t have linked to that site, please tell me why I should act as a censor for KB readers.
        
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        January 4, 2020 2:35pm
    - chaos
      
      Personal attack, take it how you want when you link to website that claims funding is based on skin colour.
      
      Perhaps you should start thinking for yourself instead of posting the crap from ysb and the racist owner.
      
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      January 4, 2020 3:23pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        My in-laws grew up as 2nd-class citizens in Nazi Germany, under a regime where other folk were only too keen to tell them how to think, what they could read, what they could listen to, and who they could associate with.
        
        Why are you and other trolls on KB so desperate to stop me from linking to material that other NZers are creating?
        
        Do you think we should just read and comment within our own group-think echo chamber?
        
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        January 4, 2020 3:48pm
  - Swifty
    
    Wow – you really let yourself down with that post chaos.
    
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    January 4, 2020 1:36pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    @chaos
    
    I’m also on Kiwiblog,,,and have been now for seven years… in that time on this site I have been abused, lied about, defamed, and harassed.
    
    Does that make me a supporter of David Farrar’s views/beliefs/values or the commenters who abuse me here?
    
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    January 4, 2020 2:00pm
    - chaos
      
      Like i said I thought more of you but if you want to link to sites that contain hatred and racism, speaks more of the kind of person you are.
      
      I’m sure the racists rednecks on ysb will copy this post to there as well and run here to support you. Reminds.
      
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      January 4, 2020 3:29pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Like i said I thought more of you but if you want to link to sites that contain hatred and racism, speaks more of the kind of person you are.
        
        There’s no secret about the “kind of person I am”.
        
        Anyone can read my posts; there’s no mystery about my history; there’s no problem with locating me.
        
        You’re the anonymous chap and you’re making assumptions about me based on a site I linked to…
        
        And seriously Chaos, I’m not bothered that your opinion of me has been lowered… I think the last time I gave a stuff about the opinion of folks I know nothing about must have been never.
        
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        January 4, 2020 5:40pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @chaos
        
        a couple of years back stephieboy seemed keen to link me with being racist and an alt-righter.
        
        I didn’t even know what alt-right meant… but I went looking on some sites he had linked to… and soon saw all the Nazi /neo-Nazi/anti-Semite stuff he was trying to link me to.
        
        Surely you must realise that my husband and therefore our children are not the right types of humans by Nazi/neo-Nazi/racist classifications.
        
        Your attempt to link me with racists rednecks is
        misguided and perhaps tell us more about you than it does me.
        
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        January 4, 2020 6:02pm
- Lizziep
  
  Great site https://maga.net.nz isn’t it Maggy? Time someone keeps a time line of the lies both PTPM and Winestone tell.
  
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  January 4, 2020 11:30am
  - namron
    
    Look forward to more on maga.net.nz
    Enjoyed “a conversation between simon and cindy.
    
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    January 4, 2020 2:17pm
  - chaos
    
    No rather childish site with crap on it, if you want a timeline of the lines by Ardern the only real site is the one created by National that lacks the racism of the owner of ysb and its members
    
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    January 4, 2020 3:25pm
- tf78
  
  I just forwarded it to some Aussie friends.
  
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  January 4, 2020 1:50pm
- curry4me
  
  Thanks for the link. I’ll put it on my FB page.
  
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  January 4, 2020 8:01pm
toby1845

I’ve been thinking about how the gummint could support Stuffed’s climate change crusade, and have come out with the following.

Newspapers use paper, which is made from trees, which help fight climate change. So, it makes sense that if the gummint can reduce the number of papers being printed, it will help the climate. So, how about a heavy tax on each papers’ daily distribution of physical newspapers – a good 100% on the sale price would work. This could be balanced by a mandatory reduction in paper production of 5% per year, to ensure that those who don’t have the ability or inclination to access the online versions can still buy a paper.

The tax could be used to support better broadband services. The media companies could make up the shortfall by increasing advertising costs and/or improving their standards from the rubbish they produce at the moment.

And in the words of the economic masterminds who currently run the country, if they can’t make a profit, they shouldn’t be in business.

Stuffed could hardly complain.
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January 4, 2020 10:19am
- Paulus
  
  I once heard that our Newspapers use cheap poor quality paper imported from Malaysia not New Zealand wood (except Toilet Paper).
  Am I wrong ?
  
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  January 4, 2020 11:20am
  - toby1845
    
    I wood not know (see what I did there?), but if that is correct, reducing the number of papers being printed will have an even bigger impact. Think of the oil not being used to ship the wood!
    
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    January 4, 2020 1:15pm
  - Ed Snack
    
    NZ wood pulp is primarily derived from Pinus species and is notably coarse. Useful primarily for cardboards and packaging, not suitable for papers used for printing.
    
    I would therefore think it pretty likely thatNZ imports the newsprint used for papers.
    
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    January 4, 2020 2:10pm
    - DigNap15
      
      Yes I think Beech is a good tree for making paper.
      That’s why we had a mill at Matura
      
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      January 4, 2020 3:30pm
Yvette

We aim to plant one billion trees by 2028 – 150 million are already in the ground.
– Jacinda Ardern, Opening address to United Nations Climate Action Summit, 24 September 2019

Did I believe, “150 million are already in the ground.”

Of course MPI / Forestry website invites you to “Check back regularly to see how we’re tracking to the goal of planting one billion trees by 2028.” [1]
And they said trees planted since the One Billion Tree programme was announced is –
149,160,000

… which is relatively close to Ardern’s figure, give or take a few thousand.

But that was the figure when she addressed the UN
and still is the figure this morning.

Are they taking a break too? Since September 24.
Because I don’t think Forestry has stopped at all in felling trees.

[1] https://www.teururakau.govt.nz/funding-and-programmes/forestry/one-billion-trees-programme/about-the-one-billion-trees-programme/
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January 4, 2020 11:06am
- JackRabbit
  
  Cindy’s promise of one billion trees, INCLUDED the 500M trees (50 million annually), planted by industry as part of reforestation after felling for use. Which is a net of zero.
  
  Essentially, she is rubber stamping and taking credit for something that was already happening, and without mentioning that just as many trees were being cut down as planted.
  
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  January 4, 2020 11:53am
  - Wired-one
    
    You’re onto it. This is another bullshit target that the media let Ardern get away with.
    
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    January 4, 2020 3:21pm
Maggie Pie

Beautiful warm day here today, but that damn wind is driving sand into all the cracks & crannies. Beachside living can have its drawbacks as my partner discovered as well.

Friends of ours were heading back home and tweeted……

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ENYHZJGUUAAyYOf?format=jpg&name=small
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January 4, 2020 11:33am
- Tall Man
  
  Unless you really enjoy scraping salt of windows and vacuuming daily, the beach house is not for you.
  
  Mind you, it is nice on a sunny calm day and being able to fish of the beach is great.
  
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  January 4, 2020 11:46am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Gee I’m sorry. I accidently stole that image. Dunno how that happened
  
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  January 4, 2020 11:53am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    My partner was saying when he used to come up here as a kid, a lot of the houses were still on sceptic tank and the cleaning contractor was a guy by the name of Bob MacDonald. During the 80’s he re-branded all his trucks as ‘MacDonald’s Takeaways’
    
    LOL!!
    
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    January 4, 2020 1:19pm
    - tf78
      
      Must have been a franchise we had MacDonald’s takeaways at Muriwai too.
      
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      January 4, 2020 2:32pm
Manolo

The doom mongers at their worst:
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/comment-australia-is-committing-climate-suicide/ar-BBYArA
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January 4, 2020 11:53am
- Jack5
  
  It’s good to have Manolo posting again. ?
  
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  January 4, 2020 1:34pm
  - Manolo
    
    Thank you, Jack. I detest the moderation system imposed, hence my few comments.
    
    The glory days of Kiwiblog are gone; it is now a mere shadow.
    
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    January 4, 2020 3:41pm
JibberJabber

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/01/the-model-formerly-known-as-kate-fischer-unleashes-on-the-greens.html

Hey Greenies…. now would be the perfect time to chain yourself to a tree.
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January 4, 2020 12:30pm
JibberJabber

McGowan and some other celebrity non-entity accelerate their slide into irrelevance,
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/rose-mcgowan-twitter-apology-iran-killing-suleimani-usa-held-hostage-terrorist-regime
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January 4, 2020 1:47pm
Prince

How long before the Aussie Woke Brigade demand changes to the Big Bash League.
Perth Scorchers and Brisbane Heat names must be deeply insensitive to those affected by the fires.
And the title ‘Big Bash League’ suggests unacceptable male physical domination.
Can I suggest ‘Perth Hugz’, ‘Brisbane Wellbeing’, and the ‘Big Climate Change Acceptance League’.
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January 4, 2020 1:51pm
Maggie Pie

It’s been sooo windy here for the last 3 days, my partner hasn’t been able to put the boat in….and i see it’s forecast it to get even worse!
He went for a drive before to see it was any better over the other side at Little Manly – but as he just said, “Even there it’s blowing like a long legged blonde with overbite”

[….i think thats an old nautical term? ]
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January 4, 2020 2:28pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Now you know what really happened.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ljxu3emjuc3wdj1/Soleimani.jpg?dl=0
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January 4, 2020 3:21pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

I last posted at 3.21pm. I guess KB has gone into nap stage again
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January 4, 2020 4:55pm
- toby1845
  
  No, I think the mods are in ‘woke’ stage, which is the problem here at the moment.
  
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  January 4, 2020 5:27pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    So they do nothing constructive and sit on the fence?
    Need a working group to WORK on this. PTPM help!!! Can we do this? Let’s do this
    
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    January 4, 2020 5:43pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

PTPM, opinion but take note, if you can understand it.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/steve-forbes-trump-has-blown-away-economic-expectations?fbclid=IwAR2tjrQRaXbEx26MydHxowM1fXYYrggDlAZgN22jYWe-OUrZsskf3sb7Ba4
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January 4, 2020 5:14pm
Manolo

Read and enjoy: https://pjmedia.com/trending/irans-al-quds-force-chief-killed-us-foreign-policy-establishment-hardest-hit/
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January 4, 2020 5:41pm
Maggie Pie

Just had to share this with the group 😀
Mr partner just walked in after having a few with the boyz at the surf club.
He doesn’t get to hear talkback during the day, but was just listening to 1ZB in his car.
First thing he sez: “Who’s that nasty pommie c~~t on ZB that hates Trump so much?”
I quickly turned on but the show had finished at 6. Can only assume he was referring to Miles Davis.

LOL!!
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January 4, 2020 6:07pm
- tf78
  
  Maggie he was indeed – I couldn’t believe my ears. More fool them I say.
  
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  January 4, 2020 7:16pm
MrTips

I would pay money to have Kiwiblog open for one night with BigBruv, Dad4J and Kea told to go at it against Stephie, R and Mikenmild.

That would be entertainment.
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January 4, 2020 6:52pm
chaos

* Joe Hildebrand: ‘Bloodcurdling insanity’ – Real reason ScoMo is under fire

However even Blind Freddy can see that there is also a far more cynical campaign being waged against the PM that originated not from the bush but from the leafy and inner-city suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne – hashtag activists who are more angry at Morrison for winning the election than for anything he has or hasn’t done about the fires.

As has been noted, many of the same commentariat who condemned Morrison for not doing enough to fight fires condemned Tony Abbott for actually physically fighting fires.

It also insults the intelligence of every Australian to suggest that the same people who circulate pictures of the PM’s face etched on a ballsack are looking to him for guidance and reassurance in these troubled times.

If anything, they only want Morrison around so they can spit in his face. Hell, even all of Sydney Harbour couldn’t keep him safe from Tex Perkins.*
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January 4, 2020 7:00pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/118558008/wind-driven-cold-water-blob-off-taranaki-coast-chills-bathers

Not as much climate-change crap about this , as there was for the hot-spot to the east of the North Island a week or so ago.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12296684
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January 4, 2020 7:17pm
chaos

No, no you aren’t. You are the victims of green policy that has stopped preventive measures being taken to fight Forrest fires, and also the victims of arson.

* Standing on the waterfront at Mallacoota in Australia on Friday morning, waiting with his wife and 10-year-old son to board a tender that would take them out to HMAS Choules offshore, Nick Ritar had time to ponder the utter strangeness of what was unfolding in the normally idyllic beach town just south of the NSW border.

“We are Australia’s first climate refugees,” he told the Herald by phone from the wharf, where groups of holiday-makers were being bussed down from the local cinema.

“We are the first of many.”*

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/118589437/australia-bushfires-climate-refugees-escape-from-danger
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January 4, 2020 7:48pm
Tall Man

Tim Dower?
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