Māori Climate Commissioner, Donna Awatere Huata, says the ultimatum by West Coast Regional Council to see evidence human pollution is causing climate change before they reduce emissions is a shameful ignorance.
“The science is clear. As trapped heat from our emissions continues to build, westerly airflow across NZ will rapidly increase. That will bring more water to the West Coast and with the Southern Alps acting as a natural barrier, that water will fall as rain.”
“The West Coast will face severe rain events that will increasingly wash away infrastructure and flood anything near rivers. That the West Coast Regional Council refuses to reduce emissions until they see evidence is shameful ignorance at best and anti-science book burning superstition at worst.”
“The good people of the West Coast need leadership, not medieval stupidity.”
Donna Awatere Huata
Māori Climate Commissioner
I damn near chocked when I read this…
The worst thing about the idiocy of the West Coast Regional Council’s demand to “see the evidence” is that it perpetuates the image of West Coasters as uneducated hicks and hillbillies (which, of course, is largely untrue).
Any of those seven Old White Men could have accessed the internet to inform themselves of rising CO2, methane, and temperatures. (Though that raises the question whether they are familiar with the concept of “The Internet”?)
To cast doubt of climate change amidst the hottest summer on record, when the country is sweltering under preternatural temperatures, is head-shaking, eye-rolling, and incomprehensible.
West Coast voters should think carefully next time they’re ticking their ballot papers.
Given that the Royal Society of New Zealand, Prof James Renwick and the IPCC are unable to provide the evidence that the West Coast Council has asked for, the request is entirely reasonable.
CO2 may be rising, but where is the evidence based on observational data that it causes dangerous global warming? It does not exist.
It is not the hottest summer on record. Certainly, a few old records from the 1930s are being broken, but if global warming was taking place, they all should have been broken a years ago. All we can say is that it is at least as hot as it was in the past.
According to the tide gauges, the sea level continues to rise at a steady 1.8 mm per year. Just as it has for the last 100 years. All the predictions of imminent rapid rise have been wrong.
The Council should be congratulated for asking the hard questions.
Is NASA good enough for you? and the WCRC? No doubt you know more than NASA, so many old white men think they know more than the 97% of Climate Scientists about Global Climate Change as caused by human activity and that the evidence reveals that current warming is occurring roughly ten times faster than the average rate of ice-age-recovery warming. Blah Blah Blah I’m sure your not interested. Go check it out – NASA Global Climate Change will find it.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/98001955/how-climate-change-could-send-your-insurance-costs-soaring
30 years of failed climate predictions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2u_TIWPupw&t=618s
At what point will you realise these people are ‘talking up a storm’ in order to maintain their funding stream?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jun/25/30-years-later-deniers-are-still-lying-about-hansens-amazing-global-warming-prediction
So NASA, NOAA, and every other science institution are all wrong, based on one youtube vid??
Damn.
Andrew, how can I put i this delicately, you are gullible.
We’ve just had the hottest summrr on record and you’re still in denial??
Go buy some beachfront property.
And yet, Andrew and Bryan, there’s this – https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/381088/heatwave-breaks-second-157-year-record
No dangerous global warming?
So why are the bankers getting concerned?
https://www.ft.com/content/31a335e0-133f-11e9-a168-d45595ad076d?fbclid=IwAR1wAReJm6Ur6zCfO_iYwUZenScGPCm4lmxj3e0851uc1wC0JxG-49j9sC0
Brian, if you pull your head out of the sand fir a moment and look at the evidence, the answers are in front if you.
Your suggestion “CO2 may be rising, but where is the evidence based on observational data that it causes dangerous global warming? It does not exist” is risable. Are you dismissing the science behind climate change?
If you want to see how CO2 affects a planetary atmosohere, look at Venus. It’s an earthsize planet with a dense carbon dioxide atmosphere. Temperatures are up to 460 degrees celcius. Its a runaway greenhouse effect.
So your child-like denial makes no sense. It’s like the Earth is still flat for you despite the evidence.
White noise can be so irritating can’t it? But in the end it is eliminated.
Facing crisis is something humans do poorly.
Sea level rise will wipe out downtown Greymouth and the rise in level of the Grey river floods will also affect the Grey Valley flood plains with many houses and farmland becoming nonviable.
Every river mouth will be affected and those are the places the larger coastal settlements are.
A disaster for the West Coast looms with no viable solution but ignore for now and move on to the next local topic.
The Coasters have ticked their ballot papers for regional and local elections.
The future looks grim on many fronts.
A big mindset shift is not likely on the Coast and in most other places around NZ when few options are open.
Well put, John W. All I see are seven King Canute wannabes, standing ankle deep in sea water in their beach front property’s kitchens, commanding the sea, “GO BACK! I COMMAND THEE , GO BACK!!!!”
good luck with that.
Plonkers.
I despair for the human race, really I do.
Well the west coast got looked after by aunty Helen when they stopped chopping down the native trees what happened to those millions ?
The one thing scientists have yet to understand about human induced climate change is why so many of the deniers are older white males
Because many old blokes are Hierarchical Individualists.
https://youtu.be/BLYT54q9gEQ
Is the WCRC any different to any other cabal of “little kings” in power throughout NZ? I am not proud of their views, but at least their position is is clearly stated without platitudes and lipservice.
Inbreeding.
‘Nuff said.
These gentlemen have laid down the challenge…let’s see if they get the proof or just hot air blown back at them.
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