As the climate deniers and climate minimalists continue to bleat that climate change is a socialist hoax, or pretend we can’t do anything, or factiously claim ‘the climate always change’ while they continue not spread spiteful disinformation and malicious lies, the planet is melting…
World registers hottest day ever recorded on July 3
Monday, July 3, was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to data from the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction.
The average global temperature reached 17.01 degrees Celsius (62.62 Fahrenheit), surpassing the August 2016 record of 16.92C (62.46F) as heatwaves sizzled around the world.
The southern US has been suffering under an intense heat dome in recent weeks. In China, an enduring heatwave continued, with temperatures above 35C (95F). North Africa has seen temperatures near 50C (122F).
And even Antarctica, currently in its winter, registered anomalously high temperatures. Ukraine’s Vernadsky Research Base in the white continent’s Argentine Islands recently broke its July temperature record with 8.7C (47.6F).
…as the world melts, National, ACT, Groundswell and Federated Farmers are promising to do everything to undermine the very little the Greens/Labour have managed.
The level of denial over what is happening and where this is all going is beneath the challenge of the moment…
Damning report finds more than 400,000 New Zealand homes at risk of flooding
Newly released research has found more than 400,000 homes around New Zealand are at risk of flooding.
The report by NIWA and the University of Auckland found 441,384 residential buildings were in flood-prone areas, with a hefty estimated replacement value of $218 billion – a massive 12 percent of New Zealand’s housing value.
…The Biggest Lie in NZ Politics is that NZ Dairy is the cleanest and greenest in the world when the reality is that it’s a cherry picked nonsense that leaves out pollution so NZ Dairy can get to the numbers to pretend to be clean and green.
Russel Norman’s take down of this Dairy propaganda on The AM Show recently was just ruthless…
“NZ is the biggest seller of a simple commodity called dried milk powder, the cheapest of the cheap, and if you look at what is happening in food production around the world they are looking for more environmentally sound food products.
They are looking for higher value products.
We’ve gone down the pathway of the lowest quality commodity you can produce in the world.
NZ is mid range in terms of its environmental cost per kilogram of milk solids, there is nothing special about it, and we do feed a small number of people compared to the billions on the planet and the economics is very clear that you can be just as profitable if you pull back on the stock rate, pull back on the amount of fertiliser and actually produce a higher product.
Organics is in fact doing incredibly well globally, so why don’t we become a producer of dairy rather than the producer of the cheapest commodity on the planet which results in us trashing our water ways and being big climate producers, that’s a better pathway isn’t it?
…he’s so right!
We always ignore that the 40million number is based on us selling milk powder as a base line ingredient filler for the manufactured food industry. The PR spin pretends it’s wholesome NZ cheese and milk and meat those 40million are eating when the truth is the vast majority of what we export is basic bitch milk powder used as a filler ingredient!
The Climate Crisis was some event we feared at the end of the century, what we are seeing is an unleashing of heat events well beyond what we feared.
There is just no plan to adapt to this new reality when it should be the driving force to begin immediate and radical adaptation for what is coming.
We have no comprehension of what is coming and we are simply not prepared for the age of consequences.
Watching National, ACT and Corporate Farmers use their economic and political muscle to avoid responsibility for what comes next can only be resolved by civil unrest and a campaign of civil disobedience against those interests.
Just consider how the Corporate Farming Lobby have managed to avoid any tax on their pollution since mid 2004!
They have pushed and pushed and pushed it off for 20 years!
National have already promised ANOTHER 5 year extension which will mean the agricultural industry have managed to stop any tax on their pollution for quarter of a century!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Claiming that NZs emissions mean nothing in comparison to China and India isn’t a justification to do nothing, it’s an acknowledgement that radical adaptation is the only move left because those Goliath economies have already doomed us to a dangerous climate change future!
The Left must force a bargain with Farmers for strategically essential reasons.
They are going to feed us when the famine comes.
A recent report on food security found NZ had incredibly low food security because it was so open market driven and refused to subsidise farmers.
Which is where we on the Left must drive the debate.
We should absolutely consider subsidising food grown by NZ farmers and horticulturalists and our seafood and meat and dairy that generates a 15% price reduction for all NZ produce consumed here.
Rebuilding a direct link between the harvest grown here, the people who grow it and a grateful local market who enjoy the product WITH a 15% price reduction.
Climate change will kill global free market supply chains, we are locked into hyper-regionalism. We need to build new economic structures, subsidising NZ kai for the domestic market would lock in certainty for producers while strengthening food security for the population.
We have to find new ways of working together to ensure we can survive what’s coming.
We are a nation of fatherless children raised by angry solo mothers, a low imagination horizon juvenile settler culture built upon stealing indigenous land and polluting it without restraint. A rugged individualism dependent on exploiting a low wage economy and rigging under-regulated capitalism for the rich.
The old greeds, the old hates and the old exploitations will no longer hold the system together if that system is melting in real time.
Super-rich warned of ‘pitchforks and torches’ unless they tackle inequality
Global elite told at London’s Savoy hotel of real risk of ‘civil disruption’ if more is not done to help struggling millions
This is the age of consequences.
They won’t be pleasant.
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This collection of power hungry fools will engage in all manner of chicanery to fulfill their covetousness desires.
And if that means the rest of us burn – so be it.
Martyn – Those above arguments are what those Stop Oil fuckwits use as an reason to bugger up other people’s day to day happening…
Gee Nathan how inconvenient. I guess they have got to that stage because nothing happens unless people protest. Want to hear some more stupid arguments? How about those that want alternative energy have ulterior motives! No shit. Who said you can’t make money fixing a problem! It doesn’t change the science/reality. Pretty sure oil companies aren’t charities.
The again you’re concerned about measuring temperature near airports so you might see things differently
every successful demo disrupts someones day….c’mom nate condemn those pesky suffragettes
I know you keep saying it is corporate farmers, as if the typical family farmer, still in their many tens of thousands, either has no say or is of a different view. It is political label, not an actual analysis of rural views.
I would suggest that the big majority of family farmers, who are still have majority of all farming land, share these views. In fact, as Groundswell shows, they are driving it.
There are a number of reasons, mostly to do with their income.
Farmers, unlike urban people, will be paying the emissions levy directly. For urban people, emissions levies are paid by larger industrial firms. The impact of carbon charges is indirect and for most of us, very small. For farmers, emissions levies mean a direct and substantial reduction in their income. Many believe that the costs are sufficient to make farming unviable, not that I believe that. Nevertheless they see tens of thousands coming off their bottom line. The bottom line being that actual money they pay themselves to live. In their view it would be perhaps a 30% reduction in take home pay. How many other people are facing that level of reduction of income due to emissions levies?
The second main argument is that New Zealand is too small to matter. What difference do we make to global warming. It is of course an argument that all small OECD countries can make and will cut no ice in international fora.
The third argument is that NZ livestock farmers are the most efficient in the world. A reduction in production here simply means more production by less efficient farmers elsewhere with consequent greater emissions.
The fourth argument is tat the farming sector produces most of New Zealand’s foreign exchange which underpins the total economy. Therefore we all need to share the cost, not just load it onto one sector.
Now I know some of these arguments are invalid, but that doesn’t stop farmers making them. The reason being that their belief that their take-home pay will be dramatically reduced.
We need to find a way to spread the cost of reducing farm emissions among all of us, so we are not asking family farmers to take a massive reduction in their take home pay, while almost no-one else has to pay much at all.
Quite right. I think it is also a myth that the urban workers hold a different opinion to the farmers. I suspect if you polled voters in safe Labour seats, most would agree with every one of those arguments.
The small farmers can’t possibly support the Primary Sector C.A.P. The number of small landholdings generally falls over time, and they will be the first to go out of business (and have their lots gobbled up by the large agriculturalists).
@ Wayne.
I’m pleased to see that cracks are appearing in the corrupt agri-narrative. Maybe, just maybe the levee’s about to break.
You must watch this documentary. In the documentary you will see parallels to the disappearance of vast amounts of money into unregulated foreign banking where that money is washed, dried and available to the depositor crooks to do with as they please. The mechanisms within this documentary are the same as that behind the exploitation and manipulative control of AO/NZ agriculture. In short. Know your enemy. ACT/National/Groundswell/Federated Farmers are the enemy. Crooks, either directly or indirectly, sequestering then hiding vast amounts of money in secret off-shore banking systems. Ian Wishart touched upon that in The Wine Box Inquiry headed up by the Grand Master Laundry Operator himself, winston peters, a national/act lap poodle trained to go running off in the wrong direction to the wrong forest to wheeze fag smoke up the wrong tree.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winebox_Inquiry
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Generally speaking, everything you think you know about the post farm gate political and economic environment with regard to farming and farmers is wrong. .70cents for a kg of wool, a few cents, perhaps a dollar for milk solids, ( Is it more? Less? I don’t know.) Meat, vegetables, grains … our primary export industry still manages to provide AO/NZ with enough crumbs left over after Auckland’s urban crooks have feasted to have 5.2 million people function in a more or less First World manner. Except you homeless people and hungry kids sleeping in cars with mum. But you don’t count, do you, because you don’t have an address. ( WINZ. Is a thing.)
We also have, according to The Daily Blog, 14 multi-billionaires, 3118 multi-millionaires with individual wealth in excess of $ 50 million each. We also have Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin and Invercargill. All First World cities of various population densities and none of which export anything except working class people who were once employed in the agricultural sector who must now try for Australia with its similar problems but not yet quite so acute.
In short, and I’m not that short, is that our agricultural infrastructure have been blatantly burgled for generations by a scant few old mates who knew how to spot a lucrative opportunity.
The Good Ol Boys, aye. The Federated farmers. More a federation of tea sippers and biscuit nibblers followed by shivers looking for a spine to run up. The Natzo-clone Groundswell windbags who can’t read, can’t write and can’t find the flat deck keys and national with its insipid hanger-on, ACT party.
There they are, all to protect and shield inter-generational crimes against their own.
@ Wayne. There needs to be an enduring investigation into our primary industry and where the fuck our money’s gone. ( Hint. Drive through the leafier suburbs of Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington Christchurch, Dunedin and to a lessor extent, Invercargill. )
If we must down-tempo our intelligence and pretend that farmers must be the ones to combat pollution because it’s all their fault then ponder these fuckers. Wrightons PGG, Fletcher Challenge, RD1, Carter Holt Harvey, *ANZ, ASB, BNZ, **Westpac and the dodgy as fuck district councils who’d spray new born babies with Round Up because it will make them grow nice and pink and weed free.
* Jonky’s bank. Aw bless. And he ate a hot dog with Prince William. ( No. Not a Gay nightclub metaphor. Although…. Pony Tail up The Prince. You never know.)
** An Aussie owned original. Everything that’s money re our gubbimint is westpac. Why is that, do you think? Strange considering Australia’s our primary export competitor. How does that work? Boys? Yoo Hoo? We have a question…
Farmers. You proper ones. You family farmers. Strike. Don’t fuck about. We all depend upon your strength and prosperity and right now it’s not looking good.
P.S. Watch that above documentary.
Yes Wayne, fairly much “bang on”
The current impasse/hault is because of a failure for Government to comprehend to full picture. Each farm is unique when it comes to the environment and should have individual assessments. The left hand of Government says NO NO too complicated.However the right hand of Government says yes each farm is unique and each shall have a farm specific fresh water plan. Now is not a major to extend that plan to incorporate an analysis of the carbon impact of eah farm. But hey why doesnt the Government run with this proposition?
Because many farms sheep aand beef in particular will.net carbon sinks not net emitters. Thus due to be paid not taxed.
Now the realization of this AND its impact on the carbon trading market has brought both farm emisson charges and carbon farming to a grinding.hault.
Ill concieved, poorly implemented, now all on hold!
The Indigenous populations globally have had the answers to our problem all along but the problem is that those resources that were and are necessary to containing methane levels etc.. have been eroded by over industrialization, colonization, greed!!
In NZ/AO the amount of trees culled to facilitating hooved animals Cows, sheep, horses, etc.. as well as towns, cities roading in the late 19th century impacting our country is coming to fruition ask I write. The large rimu, pohutukawa, totara, kauri, etc..that held the land together have been decimated along with the ‘kaitiaki’ that called these forest there homes.
This country is only 183 years old from the signing of the TOW that only 3 generations give or take and the land is caving in to the pressures of greedy shortsighted overlords from europe who let’s be frank are the main perpetrators to this disaster that affecting every single life on this planet.
Ngai Tahu dairy farms in Canterbury called Stephen, they want their argument back.
Keepcalmcarryon, Oh dear you clearly are just plain dumb!!
Approximately 45% of NZ deforestation and over 50% of species extinctions occurred prior to European settlement. Links included so you can check the numbers for yourself but hey, don’t let facts get in the way of blaming whitey for all the worlds ills
https://teara.govt.nz/en/interactive/11674/deforestation-of-new-zealand
https://teara.govt.nz/en/extinctions/page-4
Paul S, Te Ara is a govt website not reliable like your link however the first pakeha that visited these shore wrote about the “trees that stretched for miles” ,and the “thick native forest”. So who’s lying? Te Ara or the first pakeha to view these Islands? I know who I’ll believe and it not your link that doesn’t say much.
http://www.enzb.auckland.ac.nz/
yay stephen a return to subsistance farming….that’s gonna go down like a cup of cold sick
Is the world heating up due to increased CO2 levels? Maybe, I don’t know. But let’s assume it is.
So, what’s your plan to fix it?
Well duh, the answer is obviously destroy our entire economy and way of life while everyone else just keeps on doing what they’re doing.
The contribution to world climate issues by New Zealand farmers is zero.
Evidence?
Factually incorrect. The answer is 0.17%
https://environment.govt.nz/publications/new-zealands-greenhouse-gas-inventory-1990-2019-snapshot/how-new-zealand-compares-to-other-countries/#:~:text=New%20Zealand's%20gross%20emissions%20contributed,are%20now%20below%201990%20levels.
The contribution to TDB by Bob is zero.
Is Tory Whanau the green mayor going to stop importing Wellington’s beach from the South Island with all this end of days climate calamity ? What’s the carbon and environmental footprint of that worth?
Why not?
Don’t worry, I know – because it’s scientifically meaningless to destroy our farming, but sacrifices made to the climate gods must always be by someone else, especially your political opponents.
Very true Martyn. Given that the American empire’s military emits more CO2 than our dairy industry- an industry that produces actually useful products, rather than murdering innocent people and raping and killing little girls in Japanese-occupied Ryukyu and American-occupied Hawai’i, shouldn’t we start by purchasing weapons to sink American terror ships to the bottom of the ocean?
and khan your mouth emits more methane than a cows arse(though they are similar) well teacher look at him is literally playground stuff
like most of nz business they don’t want to spend a plugged nickle on improved methods…so fuck kiwis and fuck the planet.
I invite all the naysayers to come visit hell! Next week would be good. Expecting 47-48 Celsius on Wednesday.
So looking at a period that is 0.000000002% of the time the planet has been in existence the temp changed 0.012 degrees per year.
All the experts were telling us we’d be seeing changes measured in degrees by now.
I wonder who is wrong?
You are as usual.
In entire agreeance.
Sad how we can’t face this. The past was all immediate over deferred gratification. Has anyone ever sold the latter — politically?
Greens going down after talking the truth about our post-1984 endless deferral of the needs of the neediest. To go along with their truth about climate change being ignored.
I would say this is fun celebrating our fundamental fallibility, but burning pain ignoring it, in my lifetime, disallows that view.
Strange this is a weak spot for Trotter — can’t stare at the sun. The main, the only thing.
Back from the ‘sniping’, how on earth can we do this?!
I go to 360 degree politicians — people who absorb the rulebook and go beyond it. The saviour prince of Indonesian mythology, so not likely. I don’t think I can point to anyone on that level. Anyway, some ones of 360 degree firepower rather than these nodules who can’t turn beyond their notes.