Issue 1: What does a National – Conservative Government 2014 look like?
Issue 2: Can any male broadcaster on Radio Live talk about rape without offending victims?
and issue 3 tonight: Was Russel Norman being insensitive to the Philippines by mentioning global warming?
Good one Bomber. Put the politicians of both the Left and Right on the spot about climate change. There is no time remaining for Business As Usual. Trying to avoid confronting this issue is just time wasting when there is no time left. Climate change needs to be an urgent major issue in next years election. Each party needs be measured and judged by the electorate on where they stand on this issue so that we can make an educated choice. If the mainstream parties can avoid having this discussion during the upcoming election campaign, then no matter who becomes the government or what parties that government is made up of, they will have no mandate to do anything.
The party that picks up the issue of climate change and strongly campaigns on this issue will reap the benefit. Polls show that over 60% of New Zealanders want the government to do more on climate change.
Campaigning to restart Hauauru Ma Raki, which will create 1033 permanent jobs would be good start.
Promising to ban deep sea oil drilling would be another vote winner.
Banning the import and export of coal across our borders would be another vote winner, stopping both the import of Indonesian coal which is costing New Zealand coal miners their jobs as well as stopping the planned Denniston Coal Mine the biggest ever open cast coal mine in New Zealand’s history.
Climate Warming is a farce and I highly doubt that people view it as a major issue in the election unless it is to do away with the atrocity that it is.
The worlds top scientists working at Nasa and other such highly regarded institutes have categorically stated that global warming is unlikely as the sun is, it appears cooling down and this will result in a cool down of the earths atmosphere – not a warming up.
Stop believing the rubbish you are being fed by government scientists whose only job is to make us believe that global warming is our fault, regardless of how many lies they have to tell.
The huge amount of taxes, we as a nation are required to pay to somehow offset global warming, will do nothing to prevent the sun from doing what it will do.
We however, as a nation and a people will be all the poorer for it, while the receiver of the money will become richer and richer off the backs of the fools that our leaders are.
Christine, The Stupid runs deep in you.
Climate Warming is a farce
Not according to NASA (see below) and every scientific association on the planet. All of them. In all the physical and earth sciences. No exceptions. Not a single scientific body rejects the scientific community’s consensus on the science as summarised in the IPCC reports.
The worlds top scientists working at Nasa and other such highly regarded institutes have categorically stated that global warming is unlikely as the sun is, it appears cooling down and this will result in a cool down of the earths atmosphere – not a warming up.
Utter fantasy. NASA are quite specific about climate change. They do the hard work and spend billions of dollars in sophisticated atmospheric research. You can read their viewpoint in plain English at www.http://climate.nasa.gov/
“Global climate change has already had observable effects on the environment. Glaciers have shrunk, ice on rivers and lakes is breaking up earlier, plant and animal ranges have shifted and trees are flowering sooner.
Effects that scientists had predicted in the past would result from global climate change are now occurring: loss of sea ice, accelerated sea level rise and longer, more intense heat waves.
Scientists have high confidence that global temperatures will continue to rise for decades to come, largely due to greenhouse gasses produced by human activities. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which includes more than 1,300 scientists from the United States and other countries, forecasts a temperature rise of 2.5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit over the next century.” – NASA
Stop believing the rubbish you are being fed by government scientists whose only job is to make us believe that global warming is our fault, regardless of how many lies they have to tell.
The huge amount of taxes, we as a nation are required to pay to somehow offset global warming, will do nothing to prevent the sun from doing what it will do.
We however, as a nation and a people will be all the poorer for it, while the receiver of the money will become richer and richer off the backs of the fools that our leaders are
No, it’s not a konspiracy.
The lizardmen are not out to get you, NASA is not lying to you and Agenda 21 has no plans to place the entire population of USA in concentration camps.
Yikes Craig & Hooton! FFS Bomber.
Two good reasons not to watch & go off spending this valuable time to trim my ingrown toenails. . .
I disagree. Citizen A is at it’s best when at least one of the guests are NOT preaching to the converted. Bomber also seems to me a better host when he has a foil, as opposed to interviewing only those who he agrees with. Do you really hate being challenged that much (even if it is mostly bullshit)?
How about a real leftist on there. Maybe a communist or someone who wants a real change to the system.
The so called leftists on Citizen A generally just want a bit more on their pensions and that’s it (eg, Trotter, Wayne Hope).
…its OK to talk about other ways of running society, we don’t have to listen to capitalist cheerleaders all the time
Colin Craig is like a stupid child. It should be legal to bash him.
How depressing, Citizen A being closed down. “NZ On Air” should be renamed “NZ off Air”!
I am disgusted how public broadcasting is gradually being buried, in coffin by coffin. Shame on you, NatACT Nazis!
I got to 4.07 . Yeah …nah . Sorry . I can’t watch this . It takes ‘ Knowing the enemy ‘ to extremes that I can’t deal with . You’re a braver man than I Martyn Bradbury .
Colin Craig .
‘ Getting people into jobs ‘ . I say Fuck the Jobs ! . Do you want to work in some ‘job ‘ that means you will always struggle with corporate enhanced debts that just keep getting bigger ? Jobs that are often so boring and dead end that you can’t even smoke a joint to help avoid the brain numbing pointlessness of it all anymore . Having to wear a pathetic fluro orange nighty all day . Whether your standing in a paddock miles from anything more dangerous than green grass ? The next time a cop pulls me over for some laughable reason , like WOF issues I’m going to put on my fluro orange vest , put my orange flashing light up on my car , turn on the headlamps and hazard lights then surround my vehicle with regulation traffic cones . In short , I’m going to take the piss out of the bastard , film it and post it up on Youtube . What is it that when cops pull you over they leave all those flashing lights on ? There’s flashing red ones and flashing blue ones and the headlamps blinking on and off . Why don’t they spray paint us fluro pink then handcuff us to a power pole while they’re at it ?
Glib , sanctimonious little colin craig . Good grief . Before politicians start talking ‘ getting people into jobs ‘ I want to see politicians live on the minimum wage for ten years if they think they’re so smart .
If you want us people to work then make the stuff and things that were once ours , ours again . That stuff and things were not theirs to sell so fucking give them back . Cheap electricity , cheap transport , cheap housing , cheap health , cheap dental , cheap food . Otherwise , fuck your jobs ! I’m not working to pay some foreign corporation to use assets that were once mine that they now gouge me for which I must use for their profit . Again . Fuck your jobs ! Make life easier for us by showing us some respect then we can talk ‘ jobs ‘ .
As for mathew hooten . Does he have a weird love thing going on for the national party ? I’m serious . Is he actually ‘ in love ‘ with the national party entity . Because , as we know , love is blind . Weird , weird , weirdy weird . Uugh , creepy hooten . Very , very creepy .
I thought Colin Craig did rather well. I’m not about to vote for him, but if he occupies the space formerly occupied by Banks, that would be an improvement, except insofar as it might prolong an asset-stealing and generally non-performing Key government.
I’m disappointed Bomber didn’t correct their mistaken view that the models are wrong and that the planet is not warming overall. A look at this site shows how much heat the oceans are absorbing.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-stopped-in-1998-intermediate.htm
Oh look, another “model”, this time to kludge how the oceans are absorbing the heat that is supposed to there, but somehow isn’t . If you folks had any (and I mean ANY) idea of the “science” of how these climate models are arrived at (and yes, as an actual scientist with an actual PhD and 23 peer reviewed publications I actually do – and I only mention this to counter the claims of those who have no qualifications whatsoever but proclaim to understand the science solely from highly dubious websites), your eyes would most likely be rolling right along with mine. I don’t care how many down votes I get for this, but it is what it is. Climate change is irrefutably REAL – however the HOW of it is at best poorly understood. Humans may be partially or indeed wholly responsible, but as an ACTUAL scientist I have thus far seen nothing I would call “convincing” after you dig down into the data and examine how these models are constructed (for example, the number of assumptions that need to be made to make these models “fit” is truly staggering). Also telling is that most of these climate models rely on highly secretive “proprietary” data and/or calculations that are NOT privy to public scrutiny. I want to see the formulas, I want to see the variables, and I want to see the assumptions – more often than not I get none of that. Until there is full (and I mean FULL) disclosure of climate modelling I’m still firmly on the fence in so far as human involvement is concerned.
Yes, we know Nitrium.
You know the score better than NASA and every scientific organisation on planet Earth.
Those tricksy scientists at NASA and HADCRUT are pulling a fast one. The model’s “data and/or calculations” are kept top secret.
But that doesn’t fool you, you just know that they are flawed.
What makes you believe the absurd idea that the theory (yes, the evidence is in and so theory is the appropriate term) of man-made global warming relies principally on models?
Tell us, as an “ACTUAL” scientist, what is your professional field?
Even NASA thinks humans are involved in climate change, or is that just another of those “highly dubious websites”?
http://climate.nasa.gov/causes
I sincerely hope you are correct and the models are wrong, however, it’s hard for me as a layman to believe the views of one lone “ACTUAL scientist ” when so many others are telling me we humans are causing climate change. It seems to me that the most prudent action would be to reduce carbon emissions, before it’s too late, just in case they are all correct about the human causes of climate change.
I’m hoping you are a scientist of Sir Issac Newton’s calibre who will prove everyone else wrong while saving the world…but I’m not putting all my potash in one pot.
As an ACTUAL scientist Nitrium you may even be able to read actual data, such as the temperature records that are being broken over and over this year. You boast of your PhD and publications, exactly what scientific field are they in? Climate science? Care to add any comment on ocean acidification? The combustion of fossil fuels releases extra CO2 into the biosphere. As an actual scientist you will know that the CO2 has to go somewhere and some of it is contributing to the measured (not modelled) drop in ocean pH.
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