In the wake of climategate, the NIWA contraversy and public concern over the effect of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) legislation a public meeting will be held in Auckland on Monday featuring Richard Treadgold, convenor of the Climate Conversation Group, who collated the paper Are we Feeling Warmer Yet? that Matt drew from in NIWA, […]
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Auckland Public Meeting: Climategate, NIWA and the ETS
December 4th, 2009 23 Comments
Tags: Climate Change · Climategate · ETS · Global Warming · John Boscawen · NIWA · Public Policy · Richard Treadgold
Climate Change Statistics Humour
November 30th, 2009 8 Comments
In the wake of climategate we bring you some levity. Hat tip: Karen Bridgman
Tags: Climate Change · Climategate · ETS · Global Warming
Guest Post: Israel – Definitely One Subject Where One “Size-R” Does Not Fit All!
October 27th, 2009 15 Comments
This guest post, part of open mic week(s), is a long, uncharacteristically straight-forward and very interesting submission from Jonny King on Israel. Israel – Definitely One Subject Where One “Size-R” Does Not Fit All! Warning! Reading this could induce uncontrollable urges to spontaneously desire sleep! Recommended for Insomniacs and other freaks! Now I thought that […]
Tags: Hamas · Israel · Jonny King · War Ethics
R v Field Sentencing Decision now Online
October 7th, 2009 Comments Off on R v Field Sentencing Decision now Online
Justice Hansen’s official sentencing notes in the case of The Queen v Phillip Hans Field (a.k.a former Member of Parliament, Taito Phillip Field) are now online and make for some interesting reading. To begin with, as I read through, I could see Field’s supporters angle; he helped a couple of people out, they thanked him […]
Tags: Phillip Field
Mentionables
October 6th, 2009 6 Comments
Flat out busy as the end of semester approaches and deadlines and exams loom we thought we’d link to some blog posts we’ve recently found interesting rather than actually write anything ourselves: Wintery Knight has a video for which his blog post title sums up the content: MUST-SEE: Megyn Kelly of Fox News exposes the […]
Tags: ACORN · Bethyada · Cactus Kate · David Farrar · Mentionables · Notre Dame · Samoa Tsunami · The Prosblogion · Voluntary Student Membership · Wintery Knight
Published – Three Strikes: Proportion and Protection
September 22nd, 2009 2 Comments
The editor of the New Zealand Law Students Association (NZLSA) publication LEX has just advised me that she has published my article “Three Strikes: Proportion and Protection.” In it I argue that the objections to the The Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill (a.k.a the “Three Strikes Bill”) on the basis that it affronts the proportionality […]
Tags: Public Policy · Publication · Punishment · Three Strikes Bill
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
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