Spotted this over at Hitting Metal with a Hammer in The real climate hockey stick revealed and had to have it: It really raises questions of sustainability.
Entries from December 17th, 2009
Another Climate Change Science Hockey Stick Graph
December 16th, 2009 19 Comments
Tags: AGW · Climate Change · Climategate · Global Warming · Hockey Stick Graph
Getting Back in the Saddle
December 16th, 2009 2 Comments
In March 2008 I was in a car accident that severely damaged my neck, saw me have disc replacement surgery and to this day sees me in pain and unable to work full-time. To say this has been life changing is an understatement. I have lost a lot, my family has lost a lot but [...]
Tags: Car Accident · Disc Replacement Surgery · Equestrian · Horse Riding · Riding for the Disabled · TARPS
Madeleine on TV Tonight on Abortion & Parental Consent
December 15th, 2009 No Comments
Part two of the television panel discussion Madeleine participated in on parental consent/notification for abortion airs on Pacific Viewpoint tonight, Wednesday 16 December, on Stratos TV (Freeview 21 & Sky Digital 89) at 8:00 pm. Part one can be viewed online here. We’ll put a link up on this blog to the online video of [...]
Tags: Abortion · Bev Adair · Pacific Viewpoint · Paul Hutchison · Reverend Tavale Matai'a
Rangiora New Life College, Religion and Discrimination
December 13th, 2009 13 Comments
On Wednesday I flew to Christchurch for an interview regarding a religious education (RE) teaching position in a Catholic School. On having the interview and receiving the subsequent rejection email, it was clear what the reason I did not get the position was: I am a protestant, the school has a particular Catholic ethos that [...]
Tags: Campbell Live · Dave Crampton · Education · Idiot/Savant · Nicholas Wolterstorff · Ollie Sterrit · Rangiora New Life School · Religion in Public Life · Sara Etherington · Sexual Morality · Teenage Pregnancy
Hadouken Punch
December 12th, 2009 12 Comments
Online Sid had some fun with my Pacific Viewpoint TV screen-shot. Apparently my question to MP Paul Hutchison on Pacific Viewpoint was so powerful you could see the hadouken punch I hurled at him (or chi blast as my kids tell me the correct term is) when you freeze-framed the video. Classic! Hat Tip: Online [...]
Tags: Hadouken Punch · Humour · Online Sid · Pacific Viewpoint
View Pacific Viewpoint TV Panel on Abortion & Parental Consent Here (Feat. Madeleine)
December 9th, 2009 24 Comments
Episode one of the television panel discussion Madeleine participated in on parental consent/notification for abortion is now available for viewing online here at Pacific Viewpoint TV. The show runs for 30 minutes; in this episode Madeleine features as an audience member (panelists are Bev Adair, Paul Hutchison, Reverend Tavale Matai’a) and she goes a round [...]
Tags: Abortion · Bev Adair · MandM on Video · Pacific Viewpoint · Paul Hutchison · Reverend Tavale Matai'a
Plantinga & Ruse on Methodological Naturalism & Science Definitions
December 8th, 2009 31 Comments
Michael Ruse (and many others) contend that science is constrained by methodological naturalism, which is the thesis that that neither the data, for a scientific investigation, nor a scientific theory nor the background beliefs, against which a theory is assessed, can properly refer to or contain supernatural beings or propositions based on revelation. In Darwinism [...]
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Methodological Naturalism · Michael Ruse · Science and Religion
Madeleine on Pacific Viewpoint TV on Abortion & Parental Consent
December 8th, 2009 7 Comments
Part one of the panel discussion I participated in on parental consent/notification for abortion airs on Pacific Viewpoint tonight (Tuesday 8 December) on Triangle TV at 7:30pm. Part two will air Tuesday 15 December at 7:30pm. The episodes will also be aired on Stratos (Freeview 21 & Sky Digital 89) tomorrow (Wednesday 9 December) at [...]
Tags: Abortion · Bev Adair · Pacific Viewpoint · Paul Hutchison · Reverend Tavale Matai'a
Three Questions for NIWA
December 8th, 2009 27 Comments
Just in from the Auckland Public Meeting: Climategate, NIWA and the ETS. When it came to light last week that NIWA‘s official temperature graph and the data on their website were at odds, the former returning an increasing temperature graph the latter a flat graph, three questions were asked of NIWA by the Climate Conversation [...]
Tags: Climate Conversation Group · Climategate · Gareth Renowden · Jim Salinger · Ken Perrott · NIWA
View Episode 2 Pacific Viewpoint TV Panel on Abortion & Parental Consent Here (Feat. Madeleine)
December 17th, 2009 17 Comments
Episode two of the television panel discussion I participated in on parental consent/notification for abortion is now available for viewing online here at Pacific Viewpoint TV. (Episode one can be viewed here). The show runs for 30 minutes; in this episode I appear as a panel member (last time I was an audience member). Panelists [...]
Tags: Abortion · Bev Adair · Cushla McNabb · MandM on Video · Pacific Viewpoint · Paul Hutchison · Reverend Tavale Matai’a · Setita Millar · Sex Education · Ula Sangyum