New Zealand: Gas and coal-fired electricity ban repealed

The new Government has scrapped another Labour climate change measure – passing legislation today that repeals restrictions on the building of new coal and gas-fired power plants.

The so-called consensus on global warming is melting

If scientific trends and scientists are increasingly contradicting what environmental interest groups have been telling us about climate change, it's quite reasonable to expect any consensus on what we should do could be very different three years from now. It would be a shame to take steps now that will later be considered a foolish waste of time and money.