Climate Conversation writes 

For 20 years there’s been no local warming — NIWA’s own figures prove it, contradicting their endless public statements. Why don’t they admit this in public? Why do they tell us a different story? Why do the PM’s Chief Science Advisor, Sir Peter Gluckman, and the previous Commissioner for the Environment, Dr Jan Wright, BOTH talk about warming when it hasn’t been happening? Could they have been deceived by NIWA and the Royal Society? I lump them in together because most of the climate panel on the RS are NIWA scientists. They’ve been in bed together on climate, with the IPCC, for decades.

How did I discover this? A few days ago I picked up the Royal Society report, Human Health Impacts of Climate Change for New Zealand, and the very first sentence (highlighted above) rang alarm bells:

In the Australasian region our climate is changing.

Now, most readers know there has been no significant global warming for about 20 years. They also know that the climate has been changing for millions of years, so on the face of it this is a true statement. However, with climate language twisted completely out of shape by environmental propaganda over the last 30 years, “climate change” now means man-made warming. Beware denials, for they are coming, but when they say ‘changing’ they actually mean ‘warming’.

Christopher Monckton was tracking the lack of warming evident in the RSS dataset, which grew to 18 years and 9 months before the El Nino of 2016 set in with higher temperatures. Since the El Nino ended a few months ago, temperatures have been subsiding, and last month returned to previous levels.

But the RS was talking about Australia and New Zealand, not the globe, so I wondered how local temperatures were tracking. NIWA’s website displays the 7SS and on looking closely it was hard to see a trend one way or the other over about the last 20 years.

So I downloaded the 7SS data and, taking it from 1998 to the present because that’s what the IPCC used in discussing the global “pause” in AR5, tried graphing the last 19 years. Here’s the result:

You can see there’s an insignificant cooling trend of 0.0012°C/year (0.12°C/100 yrs). In other words, no warming and no cooling. It reflects quite accurately the widely acknowledged hiatus in the global mean surface temperature.

New Zealand needs to know this.

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For the national temperature record, the 7SS, NIWA have collected the data, checked it, adjusted it, approved it and published it on their website, so they can scarcely now argue with it. But, on the other hand, it’s totally at odds with what they say in public. Note to MSM: this ought to be front-page news.

And in the meantime, we have our politicians running around like the sky will fall within our lifetime.  Implementing all kinds of taxes and social costs to ‘save’ us all.

It doesn’t help that our own “scientific” watchdogs such as NIWA have become so indoctrinated that they’ll even ignore their own data.  I guess they feel there is safety in numbers as much as there is safety in not upsetting a government with the inconvenient truth:  that this Climate Thing was an embarrassing mistake and we need to back out of that now.

via Yahoo!

Only one week into the job new Police Minister Stuart Nash is already feeling the heat and walking back his own half-baked ideas, National’s Police Spokesperson Chris Bishop says.

“Having just floated the idea of recruiting new police staff from overseas to meet the Labour/NZ First promise of 1800 new officers, Nash has now backtracked completely, ruling out the idea after pressure from the Police Association and his own Cabinet colleague.”

“This is amateur hour stuff. Almost immediately after having been signed-up to the 1800 new Police staff by the Labour/NZ First Agreement, Mr Nash was preparing New Zealanders for failure, saying the target was “aspirational” only, there would in fact be fewer, and not all would be sworn officers.

“Then came the floating of the migrant cop idea, before the immediate slap down from Nanaia Mahuta – and the Police – who rightly pointed out it should be New Zealanders doing the job and they should be properly trained.”

“Like his colleagues, Mr Nash is quite clearly making it up as he goes along. New Zealanders deserves better.”

“I suspect another reason the policy’s been ditched is that it was obviously embarrassing for Labour to admit yet another sector of the economy would require “special visas” – meaning the government allowing people in only where it suits them – in defiance of their own policy of slashing migration.

“Poor Mr Nash has had to take one for the team so Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway can desperately try and make his own target.”

“It hasn’t taken long for divisions to become apparent even with Cabinet Ministers from the same party, let alone within the Coalition.

“Furthermore, Labour need to be upfront about the cost of their commitment to 1800 new police. As Nash even admits, with natural attrition in the sector, 3000 extra police will actually have to be recruited to meet the government’s target. Like with the rest of their costings, the Labour/NZ First/Greens government is fudging the numbers and hoping the problem will just go away. It won’t.”

3,000 new police. Of which 1,600 are just to replace those who are not good at it or are burnt out.

The remaining 1,400 will have a number of people from overseas.  Together with their families, they will need a place to live.  Space to drive.  Hospitals and schools to use.

There is a dark poetic beauty to Labour’s solutions in as much that one policy does not lock in with their others.

And we might as well laugh because you and I will be paying for it.  Well into the next National government.

via RNZ

One of the more stupid new ministers, Julie Anne Genter has blamed the previous government for the high road toll this year…seriously.

The new Government minister in charge of road safety is appalled at the rising road toll in recent years.

“It’s absolutely tragic and it’s unacceptable that the previous National Government chose not to make safety a top priority in transport funding and policy. This new Government will,” Julie Anne Genter said.

Given her logic, Labour and the Greens and in particular Julie Anne Genter are responsible for the seven road deaths in the past 5 days.

The Police though realise what the real problem is:

Police say drivers need to take greater responsibility for their actions and they’re urged to reflect back on when they first passed their driver’s licence.

“The reason you got your licence was because you weren’t drunk when you did the test. You did wear your seatbelt. You weren’t driving too fast and you weren’t on your cellphone,” Superintendent Greally said.

Only the most truly nasty politician would blame the road toll on a government. According to Julie Anne Genter the individual who was drunk, distracted or speeding isn’t responsible at all for their own death or that of others, it is the evil previous government.

With true stupidity like this she will regret those words. She has stated she will stop the road toll, essentially. She will be held to account for those comments…this year, next year and for the next three years while she is charge.

To the minister, does she stand by all her statements? If not, why not?

Judith Collins will make mince-meat of this muppet.

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Andrew Dickens writes at the NZ Herald:

I wonder if everyone, particularly the poor, are aware of how much pain we need to bear before we get to the gain we’ve been promised.

Any change of government results in uncertainty, but when a government promises to be transformative then a wise person knows that things are going to get worse before they get better.

So first of all. Noticed the price of petrol going up? As the market waits for what is going down with policy settings, the dollar is also going down. And that means petrol is going up. It is what it is. But that hurts the poor more than the rich, who don’t notice a cent here or there.  

And house prices are falling, which will mean negative equity for many, especially those who went out on a limb and borrowed the maximum within the rules their incomes would allow.

But hold on – there’s also the Auckland regional fuel tax of 10 cents a litrewhich was the first policy off the rank. There’s another cost.

The fascinating thing is, that tax will pay for infrastructure to provide public transport so the poor can still get around the city. But that won’t be in place for years and in that time the working poor still have to get to their workplaces. By car. Paying 10 cents a litre more. Again, the rich will suck that up no problem. But the poor won’t.The poor are being asked for a donation to help themselves. Not very Labour I would think. Normally they’d ask the rich to pay for the improvements to the poor’s lot. That would probably be congestion taxes. User pays. Hit the fat cats coming into Auckland central to the highrise head offices would be the normal Labour way. But no.

And so the list goes on.

The warnings of pay pressure and the resultant strikes in an environment of emboldened unions. The threat of trade negotiation breakdowns because at the end of the day we’re going to be more protectionist. The taking away of the Timaru gas boom because of emission concerns. And speaking of emissions, there are all the penalties that this government is more prepared to pay than the last one.

None of this is necessarily wrong, but I think it is prudent to say, particularly to the poor, that things are going to get harder before they get better.

A lot worse. Especially if the housing market tanks. Most businesses in NZ are small business, supported by mortgages on houses which may well be heading for negative equity. The banks will move, houses will be sold, businesses will tank.

That’s always the price of transformative governments. As the physical trainers say: no pain, no gain.

The government won’t talk about the pain, only the gain, for obvious reasons. The opposition will hype the gain into some mythical monster. Look what they did to the elusive fiscal hole.

The truth is – like all things – in the middle

But I am just warning change doesn’t come cheap. I trust you’re aware of it and up for it.

They won’t be up for it, except this time it won’t be evil baby-eating tory scum hurting them…it will be Labour, the sort of Labour like David Lange and Roger Douglas brought in….but without any of the gains they delivered to us.

But that’s ok we all have Jacinda’s concern face to fall back on.