New Zealand: Why spring does not always mean the end of winter | Stuff.co.nz

Last week, intense snowstorms killed many lambs on high-country farms of the North Island.

Hundreds of people shivered in their homes without power for days when powerlines were brought down by blizzard-like conditions, which also stranded motorists on the Desert Rd and Napier-Taupo highway.

To quote MetService weather ambassador Bob McDavitt, these storms were "very late, seeing that we were well past the equinox (September 21) and we are now just over two months away from the longest day, or midsummer (December 21)".

Environmental journalists aren’t | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

It’s an unfortunate truth that “environmental journalism” is an oxymoron. In most cases, the “environment reporter” of a newspaper or television station becomes a cheerleader, an activist, a partisan.

Example: the host of an environmental current affairs show once told me he’d interviewed a global warming activist who wanted us all to cut emissions by riding bikes. The reporter turned up for the interview to find the activist was badly bruised and unable to walk - he’d taken his own advice, only to be cleaned up by a car. But the reporter refused to show the activist suffering the consequences of his impractical advice, and positioned the man so the camera couldn’t see bruises, crutches or mangled bike. What could have been a hilarious, honest and informative piece became just the usual PR stodge. Cause advanced, but viewers betrayed.

Climate change falling off policy radar - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The Government's former climate change adviser, Professor Ross Garnaut, does not sound hopeful politicians will get it right.

On the ABC's 7.30 Report last night Professor Garnaut gave a scathing assessment of the debate so far.

Wise Australia starting to reject this dodgy disaster | Daily Telegraph Piers Akerman Blog

It is dishonest to impose a new tax on Australians using verbal sleight-of-hand to suggest that it will, in some miraculous manner, cool an already cooling planet.

In promoting this tax, Labor is working against the national interest. The BBC has provided some of the argument, and today’s Lowy Poll shows Australians are starting to wake up.

The Migrant Mind: Antarctica's Ice is Growing Not Melting

Antarctica is gaining 1.8 cm per year of ice after the corrections are made. Yet, everyone says that Antarctica is melting. How can that be? It can be because evidence doesn't matter to many of the hysteriacs. They select the areas they want the average person to look at and then they loudly proclaim that Antarctica is melting. If one only looks at the Peninsula, then it is losing mass and the Peninsula is warming. But if you look elsewhere, you see the opposite.