Global cooling and the new world order
3 October 2010
James Delingpole
Bilderberg. Whether you believe it’s part of a sinister conspiracy which will lead inexorably to one world government or whether you think it’s just an innocent high-level talking shop, there’s one thing that can’t be denied:... More >>>

Maori fishery reserves – bureaucratic racism
19 September 2010
Roger Beattie
Te Atiawa, a Marlborough iwi, proposes a Maori fishing reserve (mataitai) over 99% of Tory Channel in the Marlborough Sounds. This mataitai takes many rights from many people. It robs our children of their future. Mataitai are customary fishing reserves under Treaty of Waitangi fisheries settlements... More >>>

Heat turned up on global warming  
22 August 2010
Muriel Newman  
When a new supermarket in Mt Roskill recently advertised for new staff over 2,700 people applied for the 150 positions. This desperate situation is being replicated up and down the country...  More >>>

NIWA and the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
22 August 2010
Bryan Leyland
The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition has asked the High Court to rule on the validity of NIWA's "Seven Station" New Zealand Temperature Record (NZTR) that features prominently on its website and is used in information... More >>>

Councils threaten the good life
8 August 2010
Owen McShane
For generations of Kiwi families, once the children arrived, so too did the dreams of a house and a bit of land in the country. Five or ten acre lots were ideal – they provided tons of space for the kids, room for a pony, a few steers, some sheep... More >>>

Simplifying and Streamlining the RMA
8 August 2010
Owen McShane
The Impact of the Simplifying and Streamlining Amendments to the RMA. The Government’s RMA (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Act 2009 came into force on 1st October 2009. This Act was the outcome of a review that began in November 2008 which had the following major themes: More >>>

Time to Make a Stand 
13 June 2010
Muriel Newman  
Comments made by Nick Smith in 2005 highlight the monumental hypocrisy of the National Party. Then, when the economy was booming they campaigned against a carbon tax saying... More >>>

Why the ETS Should be Deferred 
13 June 2010
Roger Kerr
Calls are mounting for the next phase of the government's emmissions trading scheme, due to commence on 1 July 2010, to be deferred. There are string arguments for a temporary suspension of the scheme. More >>>

The Conceit of the Anointed
21 March 2010
Muriel Newman  
All too often something odd seems to happen to people elected to public office. Instead of being a conduit for the opinion of those they represent – as promised in their campaigns - many turn into mini-dictators... More >>>  

Global Warming No Longer Cool Even in New Zealand
21 March 2010
Roger Kerr
From north America and western Europe to east Asia and Australia, politicians are raising doubts about the costs of reducing carbon emissions to combat climate change. But who would have thought that even in New Zealand, which likes to parade its environmental credentials, global warming is no longer cool? More >>>

Climate Change in Tatters  
14 February 2010
Muriel Newman  
It's not often that international controversies directly impact NZ, but “Climategate” - and the collapse of the IPCC's credibility - most certainly does. More >>>  

The Cause of Global Warming
14 February 2010
Dr Vincent Gray
The theory that carbon dioxide emissions cause warming ran into an impenetrable road block from the start because there's no method currently available that can measure the average temperature of the earth's surface. More >>>

The Copenhagen Saga
29 November 2009
Muriel Newman
From the 7^th of December through to the 18^th, the much publicised United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark. The main aim of the conference is to reach an agreement on... More >>>

Canada - putting the economy first
29 November 2009
David Seymour
Of all the arguments for adopting a nationwide carbon emission reduction policy such as the Emissions Trading Scheme, one of the most peculiar runs something like this... More >>>

Open Letter to the Prime Minister
22 November 2009
Muriel Newman
Dear Prime Minister, I am writing to respectfully request that you step in to delay the passing of the Climate Change Response (Moderated Emissions Trading) Amendment Bill. ... More >>>

Occam's Razor
22 November 2009
Ian Plimer
Ian Plimer, author of the best selling book on climate change shows that climate change is driven by natural cyclical processes such as the position of our Solar System in the Universe, wobbles in the Earth's orbit... More >>>

Plato's Conceit
8 November 2009
Gerry Eckhoff
Plato, the Greek philosopher, had a belief that the power or governance of a country should always be vested in the ‘guardians’ from the ruling class. His perfect society was based on the masses agreeing to be ruled... More >>>

Letter to the Minister of Climate Change
11 October 2009
Muriel Newman
Dear Minister, It is very clear that you have been able to convince the Prime Minister and your Caucus colleagues that the evidence for human induced catastrophic climate  change presented by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is irrefutable.  More >>>

Defects in key climate data are uncovered
11 October 2009
Professor Ross McKitrick
Beginning in 2003, I worked with Stephen McIntyre to replicate a famous result in paleoclimatology known as the Hockey Stick graph... which is a statistical compilation of tree ring data supposedly proving that air temperatures had been stable for 900 years, then soared off the charts in the 20th century. More >>>

A Threat to Freedom and Prosperity
4 October 2009
Muriel Newman
National’s Climate Change Response (Moderated Emissions Trading) Amendment Bill is now in front of the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee. Submissions close on 13 of October, giving a scandalously short time frame for the preparation of submissions on legislation of this scale. More >>>

Prologue to Copenhagen
3 October 2009
Chris de Freitas
The Kyoto Protocol, an icon of the global environmental movement, is soon to be replaced by a more radical international accord to curb greenhouse gas emissions. What it will involve depends on the outcome of negotiations this December in Copenhagen. More >>>

Stand Firm
9 August 2009
Muriel Newman
In a democracy, well-organised minority groups pushing “deserving” ideological causes, can be a real threat to the public good, when backed by politicians eager to capitalise on their “feel-good” crusades... More >>>

2020 Emission Targets – An Appeal to Reason
9 August 2009
Barry Brill
The government is about to announce a formal “Target” for reduction in New Zealand’s 2020 tonnage of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), expressed as a percentage above/below those of 1990... More >>>

Turning the climate change debate
25 July 2009
Don Nicolson
I wonder if climate change fatigue has begun to bite. Greenpeace’s Sign-On campaign calls for a 40 percent reduction in New Zealand greenhouse reductions by 2020. More >>>

Salvation Circus or Government Consultation?
12 July 2009
Bryan Leyland
Last Monday night I had the disturbing experience of being present at a public meeting called by Nick Smith (Minister for Climate Change Issues) to discuss New Zealand's 2020 emissions target. It was one of 9 public meetings ...  More >>>

Crucial Questions Need Answers
12 July 2009
Muriel Newman
As a series of consultation meetings about New Zealand’s binding target for greenhouse gas emissions for the year 2020 are being held by around the country, questions must be asked about how well the public of New Zealand.... More >>>

The DoC Estate: the place where land goes to die
5 July 2009
Gerry Eckhoff
The Lindis Pass Scenic Reserve in Central Otago contains a truly unique tussock landscape which is slowly but surely dying due to neglect. This once vibrant and productive area had long ago been turned into a “protected natural area”, administered by the Department of Conservation.  More >>>

A New Documentary In An Old Tradition
16 June 2009
Dr. Ron Smith
A new documentary, on the supposed environmental crisis of climate change had its New Zealand premier in Hamilton on June 5 and there seems no doubt that it will appear everywhere soon, since there is a large amount of both money and moral fervour behind it. ... More >>>

Cooler Weather Heats up Debate
24 May 2009
Muriel Newman
Earlier this month a briefing paper for US government officials and environmental leaders on ways to “re-frame” the global warming debate in order to build stronger public support for climate change legislation, found its way into the hands of the New York Times. .... More >>>

Why I am a Climate Realist 
23 May 2009
Dr Willem de Lange, IPCC reviewer 
I am a climate realist because the available evidence indicates that climate change is predominantly, if not entirely, natural. It occurs mostly in response to variations in solar heating of the oceans, and the consequences this has for the rest of the Earth’s climate system... More >>>

The Rising Price of Power
10 May 2009
Muriel Newman
Many people have been shocked to learn that the Department of Conservation has received more than $8 million dollars in cash payments from state energy companies, in return for withdrawing their opposition to projects with significant environmental effects... More >>>

Windpower: Foolish Energy
10 May 2009
Bryan Leyland
In New Zealand we are told that windpower is economic compared to alternatives, that the unpredictable short term fluctuations can easily be covered by our “abundant hydropower” and ... More >>>

Breathing space available on climate change policy
29 April 2009
Roger Kerr
Several recent developments are altering the context in which climate change policy is being framed. The Ministry for the Environment reported this month that New Zealand is likely to be in surplus with respect to its Kyoto obligations in the period to 2012, rather than in deficit. ... More >>> 

Zombie Science, Zombie Politics
26 April 2009
Muriel Newman
According to the principles laid down by Dr Bruce Charlton anthropogenic global warming is zombie science. It is based on a false hypothesis that the increase in human-induced greenhouse gas emissions is causing dangerous global warming. More >>>

Kyoto Realities
25 April 2009
Christopher Horner
The New Zealand government is discussing various forms of a “global warming” tax to pay for an alleged, looming Kyoto liability. What they apparently have not informed the public is that this rationale, or rather excuse, for new taxation is actually something that does not and does not need to exist.  More >>>

The Path to Energy Rationing
15 March 2009
Muriel Newman
The 2009 International Climate Change Conference was held in New York last week. It drew together over 700 attendees including world-leading climate scientists, legislators, researchers, policy-makers, and... More >>>

No Progress in the Climate Change Debate  
15 March 2009
Hon Václav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic
When preparing my today's remarks, I took into my hands - looking for an inspiration - my last year's speech here, at the Heartland Institute's Conference. It did not help much...  More >>>

Climate & Politics: advice for the committee  
6 March 2009
Dr Ron Smith
The Finance and Expenditure Select Committee inquiry into the emissions trading scheme will be mainly concerned with examining the potential impact of envisaged climate change mitigation measures on the New Zealand economy and the future well-being of New Zealand citizens...  More >>>

The cold winds of 2008
25 January 2009
Muriel Newman
2008 was the coldest year this century. This is not an aberration as the global warming industry would have us believe. The world has been on a cooling trend since 1998 and there is now growing scientific evidence that governments around the world should plan for colder not warmer temperatures. More >>>

Yet another "moment of fateful decision"
25 January 2009
Christopher Monckton
Gore and his unthinking followers have made a fundamental error of political judgment: they have assumed that, precisely because climate science is so complex, they can get away with fabricating and then exaggerating the imagined “threat” of “global warming”... More >>>

Resolve to Tackle Climate Change Crumbling Internationally
15 November 08 
Catherine Beard
The resolve in Europe to make meaningful emission reductions’ is crumbling by the day in the wake of the financial credit crunch sweeping the globe, bringing with it fears of a global economic recession... More >>>

The Global Warming Scam
23 October 08 
Vincent Gray
The Global Warming Scam has been perpetrated in order to support the Environmentalist belief that the earth is being harmed by the emission of greenhouse gases from the combustion of fossil fuels... More >>>  For full NZCPR research paper See >>>

Sun Warms and Cools the Earth
20 September 08 
Dr Zbigniew Jaworowski  
In an op-ed in a Polish weekly I commented recently on a remarkable decrease of global temperature in 2008, and over the past decade. Not surprisingly the op-ed evoked a strong reaction from Polish co-workers of IPCC, denying the existence of cooling... it is really difficult to understand why so many people believe in human causation of the Modern Warm Period, which was never plausibly proved by scientific evidence. More >>>

Global Warming Science Moves On
6 August 08 
Dr. David Evans
On global warming, public policy is where the science was in 1998. Due to new evidence, science has since moved off in a different direction. The UN science body on this matter, the IPCC, is a political body... More >>>

Where is the Evidence?
27 July 2008
Muriel Newman
Earlier this month the Royal Society of New Zealand issued a special statement designed to clear up the “controversy over climate change” and “possible confusion among the public”. The statement from the Society’s Climate Committee asserts that “The globe is warming because of increasing greenhouse gas emissions” and that “human activities” are to blame. More >>>

Show us the Evidence!
26 July 08 
Dr. David Evans 
I devoted six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian Greenhouse Office. When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good... but 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon plays only a minor role and is not the main cause of the recent global warming. More >>>

Cows and Sheep May Safely Graze?
28 June 08
Prof. David Bellamy
As a youngster in a post war London I was brought up on lamb and anchor butter from New Zealand. I still delight in your butter and lamb which I can buy in my local supermarket, the latter at half the price of the local product sold in our village butchers shop. What a strange world we live in now bombarded with the rhetoric of food miles let alone tourist miles. More >>>

Is the Public being well Served?
8 June 08
Professor Dr Bob Carter
A scientist at the heart of the global warming debate talks about the need for modern societies to protect the key principles of: Fearless, independent and impartial advice from civil servants and expert committees to their political masters; the scrupulously disinterested pursuit of research by scientists; and the even-handed reporting of scientific results to the public. More >>>

Distinguishing Reality from Fantasy
31 May 08
Muriel Newman
In spite of not being able to accurately forecast next week’s weather, New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) has just released climate predictions for 2090. .. More >>> 

False Theory, Green Politics, Bad Outcomes
30 May 08
Dr Timothy Ball
Imagine basing global or national energy and economic policy on a false theory; pursuing that policy even if clear evidence shows it is wrong; continuing even though the devastating effects of such actions are already manifest; putting your economy in competitive disadvantage when other major economies are not taking the same action. More >>>

Who Pays?
18 May 08
Muriel Newman
Last week the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment came out in support of the Government’s Emissions Trading Bill as the gateway to a ‘carbon-constrained future’. Unfortunately the Commissioner has let New Zealanders down by abandoning the impartiality required of her Office. More >>>

The Global Warming Debate
18 May 08
S. Fred Singer
In the past few years there has been increasing concern about global climate change... It has been stimulated by the idea that human activities may influence global climate adversely and that action is required on the part of governments to do something about this problem... that this concern is misplaced, human activities are not influencing the global climate... and very little can be done about global climate change. More >>>

Exposing the Climate Change Agenda
6 April 08
Muriel Newman
The climate change debate is forever shifting as science casts long shadows of doubt on the predictions of global catastrophe. The debate gathered a world-wide audience when climate alarmists gained control of the climate science agenda. Its popularisation has given it a political momentum that is proving difficult to halt... More >>>

The IPCC – On the Run at Last
5 April 08
Professor Dr Bob Carter
The IPCC’s 2007 final Summary for Policymakers shows that the climate alarmists are at last on the run. Their evidence for dangerous, human-caused global warming, always slim, now lies exposed in tatters for all to see. More >>>

Unstoppable Climate Change
9 March 08
Muriel Newman
I have just returned from an historic meeting of more than 500 people from all around the world who gathered in New York to use science against the tide of political opportunism, media dramatisation,  and crowd hysteria that is propelling the global warming debate. I went to the conference wanting to know if there is any scientific evidence that human-induced catastrophic global warming is occurring. I would like to share with you what I found... More >>>

From Climate Alarmism to Climate Realism
8 March 08
Hon Václav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic
Muriel Newman met with the President of Czech Republic while attending the International Conference on Climate Change in New York. The President delivered a powerful speech; pointing to realities that many governments, including our own, choose to ignore. Speech >>> 

Beware the Dark Greens
9 February 08
Owen McShane
We may all be Environmentalists now – but we must beware of the Dark Green. Over the last few decades most of us have learned to be feminists, and are generally comfortable with our conversion. But most of us have also learned to identify and avoid being grouped with the dark side of the feminist movement that remains deeply Marxist in its roots and intentions. Similarly, most of us are now environmentalists.... More >>>

A Royal Commission on Climate Change
Muriel Newman
20 January 08
This year will see more of the government’s expensive initiatives to combat the so-called threat of man-made global warming passing into law. More >>>

Greetings from up over 2008!
Prof David Bellamy
19 January 08
A happy and a prosperous new year based, one hopes, on the commonsense of resource efficiency not sleazy carbon trading. Just take a look around the world: everything is growing, from housing, shopping centres, highways, airport expansion, hotels, sports stadia and of course grid-lock. Little wonder then, that after all their carbon heavy pre-Christmas shopping in Bali, the global warmers needed a final late night session cobbling together a statement that in effect awarded them another 2 years on full pay with expenses to plan a road map to their next talk-fest in Poznan. More >>>

New Zealand's Energy "Strategy"
Bryan Leyland
8 Dec 07
I have been involved in the electricity and energy business in New Zealand for the last fifty years. From 1992 to 2003, I produced the only independent review of electricity generation and demand in New Zealand. More >>>

A Cool Look at Global Warming
The Rt. Hon. Lord Lawson
15 November 07
Over the past half century we have become used to planetary scares of one kind or another. But the latest such scare – global warming – has engaged the political and opinion-forming classes to a greater extent than anything since, a little over 200 years ago, Malthus warned that, unless radical measures were taken to limit population growth, the world would run up against the limits of subsistence, leading inevitably to war, pestilence and famine. More >>>

Global Mitigation or Adaption
Muriel Newman
18 November 2007
The fourth and final report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was released today. Speaking at the launch, the Secretary General of the United Nations stated that climate change is putting the world on the edge of a global “catastrophe”. Such scaremongering over climate change appears to be par for the course. More >>>

IPCC Wins the Nobel Prize of Peace
Dr Vincent Gray
20 October 07
o, I have made it at last! There have been two previous occasions in my life when I was close to a Nobel Prize (thereby hangs a tale), now it has arrived. I expect the cheque in the post any time, plus an invitation to the awards ceremony. More >>>

The Nuclear Option
Muriel Newman
9 September 2007
At the APEC meeting being held in Sydney, member nations reaffirmed their commitment to reducing greenhouse gases with aspirational rather than binding goals. They have also opened the door for a greater use of nuclear energy. More >>>

Energy Strategy:expensive, misleading & futile
Bryan Leyland
8 September 2007
The recently released draft New Zealand Energy Strategy is dominated by the government’s conviction that climate change (more properly described as "man-made global warming") is happening and that renewable energy will save New Zealand from climate driven disaster. More >>>

Junk Science
Muriel Newman
24 June 2007
Throughout history scientists have stood firm in their search for the truth. Many, like Galileo, were persecuted for doing so. But their courage and determination to uncover facts and ignore the political interests of the day has played a role in the march of human progress. More >>>

The Global Warming Myth
Prof. David Bellamy
24 June 07
Am I worried about carbon induced global warming? The answer is no and yes. No because there has been no sign of global warming in New Zealand since 1955, this year snow has fallen in Portugal for the first time in 52 years and 3 US states are united by the fact that they have recorded their lowest temperatures ever. Yes because it has become a political football that has lost its foundations in real science.   More >>>

The Species Hoax
Owen McShane
29 April 07
During late January the ex-Act MP, Gerry Eckhoff, was leading some Otago farmers’ charge against DoC’s demands to enter their properties to survey some “endangered” trees. More >>>

Priorities for our Future
Muriel Newman
18 Feb 07
The Prime Minister’s Statement to Parliament at the beginning of a new Parliamentary year is traditionally the time for the government to outline its priorities for the next twelve months. In her address, Helen Clark stated: “Meeting the challenges our country faces in the 21st century requires substance, not slogans”. More >>>

Economics & Politics of Climate Change, an appeal to reason
The Rt. Hon. Lord Lawson
19 Nov 06
This is a highly complex subject, involving as it does science, economics and politics in almost equal measure. The Centre for Policy Studies has kindly agreed to publish a greatly extended version of this lecture as a pamphlet, in which I will be able to do greater justice to that complexity and to quote the sources of a number of the statements I propose to make this evening. It will also enable me to deal at slightly greater length with the scaremongering Stern Report, published earlier this week. But the essence of it is what I have to say tonight.   More >>>

Climate Change - fact or fear?
Muriel Newman
19 Nov 06
It is an indisputable fact that the earth’s climate is constantly changing. Scientific data shows that the earth’s temperature has been several degrees warmer - and colder - than it is today. What the future holds is difficult to predict in detail, but there will be cooler periods and warmer period, as well as the inevitable floods, droughts and storms. While humans have survived ice ages, there is no doubt that warmer periods are easier. More >>>

Saving the Kiwi
Muriel Newman
19 Nov 05
The green agenda in this country has already been won. Not the radical agenda of green politics, which has embraced socialism as its new cause, but a sensible and moderate approach to conservation and environmental protection. More >>>