What’s good for the for the goose is good for the gander. Right? Well, we have local climate change critics charging our NIWA scientists with fraudulent manipulation of temperature data. They question the scientists’ presentation of the temperature...

Book Review: Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto by Stewart Brand Price: US$17.153 Hardcover: 336 page Publisher: Viking Adult (October 15, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0670021210 ISBN-13: 978-0670021215 Stewart Brand is an...

The hacked emails from the East Anglia Climate Centre in the UK have not been a big issue in New Zealand. At least for most people and for most news media. There are, of course, ideological motivated people who wish to promote the issue as a scandal....

I am pleased to see that the attempt to promote a New Zealand version of “climategate” has more or less foundered. Sure the ACT party and some more extreme opponents of the findings of climate scientists are still campaigning (see for example Auckland...

This doesn’t affect me directly, being a horrible heathen, but some readers might be interested. Some might even want to take action. The article  Absolve This: Put The Catholic Church Out Of Its Misery appeared recently. It’s written by a “lapsed”...