It’s like an extreme weather thing exacerbated by ‘something’ is impacting climate

1. For the blame for this, I call on most people to stand in front of their mirrors, and look themselves into their faces.

   In usual fashion millions of New Zealanders continue driving their fossil fuel powered combustion engine cars day in and out, hundreds of thousands went on their holidays in cars, many still driving up and down the country.

   We invite tourists to drive in rental cars and camper vans they rent, only the bold cycle around the country.

   We continue using one way plastic and other wasteful products, we continue other behaviour, even here in New Zealand.

   And in most developing countries they all dream of doing the same, just as many Chinese did over decades, to join the ‘middle class’.

   It is easy blaming governments and business, but who enables them to carry on as usual, the voters, or the silent majorities, that rather not change, as change is sometimes hard, inconvenient, painful, so no change happens.

   Stand in the mirror, and look at yourselves, you polluters.

   • 100% Marc,

     And we witness the useless National Party is still solidly backing truck freight which is 5 times more likely to use much more fuel for every one km per tonne compared to rail.

     http://www.moenvironment.org/files/Large_Rivers/Comparing%20rail%20fuel%20efficiency%20with%20truck%20and%20waterway,%20Tolliver,%202013.pdf

     NIWA, has confired this to us in a powerpoint report, and many other studies support rail as far more fuel efficient such as the US railroad Ass’n 2017 study here;

     https://www.aar.org/BackgroundPapers/Environmental%20Benefits%20of%20Moving%20Freight%20by%20Rail.pdf

     Inefficient truck use of moving freight must now stop as we have to go back to rail as our superior mover of freight.

     https://www.aar.org/BackgroundPapers/Railroads%20and%20Greenhouse%20Gas%20Emissions.pdf

     Quote;
     Summary
     “Expanded use of freight rail offers a meaningful way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions without harming the economy.

     On average, railroads are four times more fuel efficient than
     trucks.

     That means moving freight by rail instead of truck reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 75 percent. According to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data, freight railroads account for just 0.6 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from all sources and just 2.3 percent of emissions from transportation-related sources.

     https://www.fra.dot.gov/eLib/details/L04317

     http://www.moenvironment.org/files/Large_Rivers/Comparing%20rail%20fuel%20efficiency%20with%20truck%20and%20waterway,%20Tolliver,%202013.pdf

2. Tamaki Drive, underwater in parts, again like it is multiple times annually nowadays, and I mean underwater.

   Kohi and Mission Bay residents flooded, again. How’s the insurance looking for coastal properties near sea level?

   The Northern motorway flooded, again, and a gradual worsening year on year.

   9 years of denial and doing more than nothing by National in the form of the then appointed ministers, Nick Smith and the equally useless Paula Bennett with our greenhouse gas emmisions growing.

   So where to next, with urgency?

   And why do people think steel cars and salt water mix? Why?

3. Hi Martyn,

   Thanks for raising the “Climate change” issue it was urgently needed to address our worsening climate of severe weather now reaching us all.

   As PM Jacinda Ardern said clearly and correctly;-

   “Climate change is truly the nuclear issue of our generation’s time”.

   But it is so sad that even with the truly ‘extreme’ weather events we all experienced over the last few days, was not responded to properly by all the media!!!!

   All the media could do was to “minimalise’ most of the event, and worsening weather events we are now experiencing now.

   Question is to all the ‘climate change deniers’ & naysayers is;

   “How much is enough to wake them up” ????

   Will it need to take many lives lost?

   Will it take a dramatic loss of their own food chain so they starve?

   Will it take a loss of all forms of transport?

   Will it take a loss of our coastal regions up to 50kms inland before they will actually finally put up their hands in surrender to ‘mother neature’ and plead for forgiveness for their folly???????

   We certainly hoe they will finally wake up now and join us to begin reducing climate change emissions and begin rebuld ing secure future.

   Lets do this!!!!!!!

4. Daily CO2
   January 4, 2018: 408.56 ppm
   January 4, 2017: 405.20 ppm

   https://www.co2.earth/daily-co2

   We are awaiting updates on the Arctic ice cover and the Antarctic ice cover but pre-holiday values indicate we will witness the lowest ever recorded for the time of year. The inexorable meltdown continues. Indeed, it is very likely accelerating.

   Of course, no one in the business sector or the government will admit the fundamental truth that industrial humans are in the process of rendering the Earth unsuitable for habitation by humans (and unsuitable for habitation by millions of other species) as a direct consequence of commercial activity. It’s the economy, you know! And the economy ‘must’ take precedence over everything else, including life itself!

   There is every reason to believe that mendacity and cowardice (plus a bit of denial of reality) will continue to rein supreme in government circles, until it all collapses, I’m afraid. After all, we’ve known about the dire CO2-induced overheating predicament for decades, and all governments ever do is make matters worse.

5. national held back the climate change report why?
   i would argue today coastal property is worthless and eventually uninsurable the question is who pays we all now about the well heeled reaction to a flood warning at Omaha on there lims no way.
   the wealthy will shoot through and off load the risk to society and the poor. climate change is as much about inequality as it is about flooding.

6. I wonder how policy can ignore it?

   Well a good place to start is with nine years of teeter-totter National government.

   Oh sorry. I see. You’re being rhetorical…

   I am never amazed at the human mind’s capability for self delusion Bomber. Especially in a critical age of self delusion…

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