GWPF Newsletter: Green Alarm As World Cools On New Renewable Energy

Around The World Climate Politics Are Turning Increasingly Sceptical

In this newsletter:

1) Green Alarm As World Cools On New Renewable Energy
Power Engineering, 5 May 2019
 
2) Around The World Climate Politics Are Turning Increasingly Sceptical
H. Sterling Burnett, The Heartland Institute, 3 May 2019

GWPF Newsletter - U-Turn: German Christian Democrats Ditch Carbon Tax

China Building 300 New Coal Power Plants Around The World

In this newsletter:

1) U-Turn: German Christian Democrats Ditch Carbon Tax
Spiegel Online, 3 May 2019
 
2) Fearing Public Revolt, German Economy Minister “Not Convinced” Of Carbon Tax
Clean Energy Wire, 3 May 2019

Barend Vlaardingerbroek: The Cathedral of Notre Dame – part of humankind’s common heritage

I was aghast to see the Cathedral of Notre Dame going up in flames a couple of weeks back. When we (that is to say, self and good lady wife) visited Paris in 1981 as part of our tour of Europe, it was one of the first places on our itinerary.

We also visited the ancient capital of Spain, Toledo, and spent time admiring its mediaeval cathedral. Afterwards, a friend of a rather cynical inclination chastised me for paying homage to those “monuments to Christianity” and asked me whether I didn’t think that was rather hypocritical on my part.

Bronwyn Howell: Can international social media censorship succeed?

Twenty four years ago, New Zealand’s Prime Minister David Lange strode the world stage as the symbolic face of the international antinuclear movement. 

In 2019, his political descendent Jacinda Ardern now similarly stands, alongside French President Emmanuel Macron, as the face of a new international moral campaign against the use of social media to organize and promote terrorism and violent extremism. 

The pair will host a summit of global leaders and tech industry executives on May 15 seeking a pledge to eliminate (i.e., censor) terrorist and violent extremist content on social media platforms.

Karl du Fresne: New Zealand, meet Paul Hunt - the man who will shape our human rights policy

We’ve finally been properly introduced to the man who will shape our human rights policy for the next few years, and who will almost certainly seek to tighten the boundaries around what New Zealanders can legally say.

British academic Paul Hunt was appointed as Chief Human Rights Commissioner last October but to my knowledge, hadn’t been wheeled out for public inspection until Kim Hill interviewed him on RNZ National last Saturday.

It wasn’t a reassuring interview. Hunt’s responses to Hill’s questions served only to confirm suspicions that he will push for tougher hate speech laws that could erode the right to freedom of expression.

Bob Edlin: 'Wellbeing' ousts 'fairness' as Budget Priority

Finance Minister Grant Robertson sounded bullish about the NZ economy this week. That’s a good sign as New Zealanders await his second budget.

He has already told us he is looking beyond traditional measures—such as GDP—to a wider set of indicators of success. The development of budget priorities, he insists, represents a new way of thinking about how NZ’s success is measured.

Robertson set out his five priorities for Budget 2019 as:

– Creating opportunities for productive businesses, regions, iwi and others to transition to a sustainable and low-emissions economy;

– Supporting a thriving nation in the digital age through innovation, social and economic opportunities;

– Lifting Māori and Pacific incomes, skills and opportunities;

Melanie Phillips: How the 'Remainers' are Undermining Western Security

As you may have noticed, I’ve been taking a break from the political mayhem to recharge the mental and emotional batteries which were in danger of overheating. 

I’ll be getting back to normal posting soon (and doubtless getting back just as soon to yet more overheating); but for the moment I would strongly urge you to watch, read and pass on this absolutely vital and deeply frightening lecture by Professor Gwythian Prins, one of the founders of the invaluable Briefings for Brexit website, which he delivered to the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC yesterday.

In it, he doesn’t just outline the way in which the UK’s membership of the EU threatens to undermine the “Five Eyes” alliance, the lynchpin of western security. He also shows how a cabal of civil service and establishment cultural defeatists that forms the prime minister’s praetorian guard — “the May cell” — has actively conspired to ensure that the security of the UK is thus undermined by the EU.

NZCPR Weekly: Undermining Democracy in New Zealand

Dear NZCPR Reader,   

This week we investigate how race-based demands for tribal co-governance are threatening New Zealand’s democracy, our NZCPR Guest Commentator Fiona Mackenzie reveals how tribal groups have been using co-governance to gain control of Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf, and our poll asks whether you believe iwi co-governance is undermining democracy in New Zealand.

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GWPF Newsletter: UK Tories Are Lost And Face Extinction In Climate Of Hysteria

Ministers Accused Of Killing UK Shale Industry

In this newsletter:

1) Britain’s Fracking Commissioner Resigns And Accuses Govt Of Caving In To Green Zealots
David Rose, Mail on Sunday, 28 April 2019
 
2) Tory Ministers Accused Of Killing UK Shale Industry
The Times, 29 April 2019

Lindsay Perigo: New Zealand is a Police State

There is now apparently a police-compiled Enemies List circulating among New Zealand's totalitarian Globalist elite, such as Comrade Ardern, Comrade Andrew Little, Comrade Winston Peters and new Human Wrongs Commissar Comrade Paul Hunt, a lackey of raving anti-Semite and hard-core socialist Comrade Jeremy Corbyn, all advancing the agenda of the most evil man on the planet, George Soros. (Why was this Islamo-Marxist fascist Paul Hunt brought over to destroy our Bill of Rights?! At whose expense?!) 

From many accounts police are actively harassing people on this list.

GWPF Newsletter - Green Energy Wars: Solar Energy Threatened By Wind Lobby

Around the World, Buyer’s Remorse Sets in for Costly Clean Power

In this newsletter:

1) Green Energy Wars: Solar Energy Threatened By Wind Lobby
Associated Press, 25 April 2019
 
2) Renewable Energy Investment Looks To Be Going From Boom To Bust As Prices Collapse
ABC News, 26 April 2019

Bob Edlin: Let’s think about the defence of democracy

The PM called for a commitment to peace in an Anzac Day speech at the Auckland Domain this morning, addressing the thousands who turned up.

Anzac Day reminds us of sacrifice, loss, the service of others and the need for all of us to continually honour those who served to through our acts of remembrance and our defence of peace, she said.

“But it also reminds us of a singular truth through the ages, through wars past and present – it reminds us of our shared humanity, something we have been reminded of again in the wake of the 15th of March.”

That was a reference to the 50 Muslims who were killed when a gunman opened fire inside two mosques in Christchurch that day.

Karl du Fresne: Is this the man we want to shape our human rights policies?

I did something a couple of weeks ago that I’ve never done before. I made a request under the Official Information Act.

I suppose it might be seen as shameful, as a journalist, to admit that I’ve never previously had recourse to the OIA, but there you are. I never felt I needed to.

My request was to Justice Minister Andrew Little and asked for information about the appointment of the Chief Human Rights Commissioner, Paul Hunt.

Clive Bibby: Remembering isn't enough - the sacrifice can't have been in vain

I write this having just returned from our local Anzac Day dawn service. 

It is one of the events that makes me proud to be both a member of this wonderful East Coast community we call Uawa/Tolaga Bay and also a citizen of this paradise we call Aotearoa/ New Zealand.

When I grew up in Central Hawkes Bay this annual commemoration of our part in the world's major conflicts was a revered day on the nation's calendar. Since that time we went through a period when the attendance levels dropped away dramatically and it was feared this special day of remembrance might disappear altogether due to lack of interest.

NZCPR Weekly: A Costly Mistake

Dear NZCPR Reader,   

This week we examine the Prime Minister’s decision to abandon a capital gains tax, our NZCPR Guest Commentator Dr Edward A. Hudson explains the important contribution that capital gains make to economic growth, and our poll asks whether you believe Labour’s decision to rule out a capital gains tax has helped their 2020 election chances.

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GWPF Newsletter: Germany’s Dirty Green Cars

Climate Sceptic AfD Now Biggest Party In East Germany

In this newsletter:

1) Electric Vehicles Emit More CO2 Than Diesel Ones, German Study Shows
The Brussels Times, 18 April 2019
 
2) Editorial: Germany’s Dirty Green Cars
Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal, 24 April 2019

GWPF Newsletter: When We Celebrate Every Failed Alarmist Eco-Prediction

18 Spectacularly Wrong Earth Day Predictions

In this newsletter:

1) Happy Earth Day! When We Celebrate Every Failed Alarmist Prediction
Nicolas Loris, Bangor Daily News, 22 April 2019

This Earth Day, it almost feels like we should be carving some turkey. Why? Because we have a lot to be thankful for since the first Earth Day event occurred 49 years ago.

GWPF Newsletter: Was This The BBC’s Worst Climate Show Ever?

What David Attenborough Got Wrong

In this newsletter:

1) What David Attenborough Got Wrong 
David Rose, Mail on Sunday, 21 April 2019
 
2) Was This The BBC’s Worst Climate Show Ever?
Paul Homewood, Not A Lot Of People Know That, 19 April 2019

Mike Butler: Rental property child hospitalisation claim contradicted

Housing Minister Phil Twyford justified the launch of costly new rental property standards in February by saying “6000 children are admitted each year for ‘housing-sensitive hospitalisations’” but, when questioned, two Ministries provided contradictory data that undermined the claim.

I sent a series of questions to the Minister’s office, to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, and to the Ministry of Health, all seeking evidence to support this rather specific claim.

The full quote was that “6000 children are admitted each year for ‘housing-sensitive hospitalisations’, and that these children have been found to be nearly four times more likely to be re-hospitalised and 10 times more likely to die in the following 10 years.”

GWPF Newsletter: Carbon Tax Opponents Keep On Winning

Did David Attenborough’s Film Crew Scare Walruses To Death?

In this newsletter:

1) Carbon Tax Opponents Keep On Winning
Michael Bastasch, The Daily Caller, 17 April 2019
 
2) Editorial: Another Carbon Tax Defeat
Editorial, The Wall Street Journal, 18 April 2019