Let’s call climate change Hurricanes after the NZ political parties and NZ companies causing them

As catastrophic climate change produces more extreme storms that will compound upon one another in never ending seasons of misery, blight and damage, let’s start naming the Storms after the NZ Political Parties and Companies that are causing them!

Seeing as our Political Class and Corporate class continue to water down environmental legislation, they should be named for the storms they generate!

Hurricane Fonterra

Cyclone Luxon

Typhoon Winston

Super Typhoon Shane Jones

Hurricane BP

Cyclone Todd Energy

Typhoon Silver Fern Farms

Hurricane Air NZ

Cyclone NZ First

I don’t think people understand the terrible place we are with climate change now…

Long stories short, here’s the top six news items of note in climate news for Aotearoa-NZ this week, and a discussion above between Bernard Hickey and The Kākā’s climate correspondent Cathrine Dyer:

1. 1. The month of August was 1.49˚C warmer than pre-industrial levels, tying with 2023 for the warmest August ever, according to the EU’s Copernicus climate dataset. This is despite the absence of El Niño’s heat amplifying effects that were present last year.
   2. The Government’s National Land Transport Programme (NLTP) plans on executing a U-turn, taking us back in time to a car-dependent past, according to University of Auckland academic Timothy Welch in The Conversation. The worst thing, he suggests, is that most of the $8 billion in planned spending will go on planning, design and preparatory work, rather than actual construction.
   3. Debate about whether ‘climate intellectuals’ should focus on disinformation and misinformation underestimates the political versus the technical obstacles to decarbonisation, according Aaron Regunbergin the Jacobin. The critique was ‘story of the week’ on the website skepticalscience.com, who argue that systematic climate mitigation is an inherently political matter.
   4. The population effects of climate displacement are causing increasing concern in the US. “When multiple cataclysmic disasters strike one region in quick succession, climate change-driven phenomena called “compounding events,” they create overlapping ripples of displacement, making the movement that much harder to track. If it was tracked in real time, local officials would see disturbing trends,” according to this gnarly tale in The Grist.
   5. Glaciologists are in a race to collect ancient virus specimens from fast-melting glaciers after finding 1,700 mostly new-to-science ones in Tibet. Meanwhile other scientists are coming up with massive geo-engineering plans to try to slow the collapse of the so-called Doomsday Glacier in Antarctica.
   6. The chart of the week is putting the terrors into gulf coast communities in the US.

…THAT’S JUST ONE WEEK!!!

Here’s the chart…

…no one is talking about what this means.

Name the Storms after the companies who are locking us into this polluter capitalism and the political class who enable them!

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