Tagged: Alan Gibbs

Taxing Rodney: Hide’s carbon hypocrisy - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Jun 08, 2014 •

• ACT,
• Alan Gibbs,
• Cameron Slater,
• carbon tax,
• Climate cranks,
• Climate politics,
• NBR,
• Rodney Hide,
• Whale Oil

Untroubled as he is by the responsibilities of public office, or any apparent need to appear consistent, the former leader of the far-right ACT Party, Rodney Hide, attempts to ridicule the Green Party’s new carbon tax policy in his column at the National Business Review this week. You can’t actually read the column, because it’s […] … Read More

Cranking it out: NZ papers conned by denier media strategy - Hot Topic

Cindy Baxter • Jan 16, 2012 •

• Alan Gibbs,
• Bryan Leyland,
• Chris de Freitas,
• Climate cranks,
• Climate politics,
• Climate Science,
• Dominion Post,
• Garth George,
• Heartland,
• ICSC,
• Jim Hopkins,
• Listener,
• NZ CSC,
• NZ Herald,
• Owen McShane,
• Terry Dunleavy,
• The Press,
• Tom Harris,
• Vincent Gray

My inbox in the last month has filled with emails about denier articles in leading New Zealand newspapers. It’s been a veritable crank central across the country. They include the ridiculous opinion piece by Jim Hopkins in the Herald late last year, a similar feature by Bryan Leyland  published in both the DomPost and The […] … Read More

Big money behind local climate change deniers? - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Oct 16, 2011 •

• ACT New Zealand,
• Act Party,
• Alan Gibbs,
• belief,
• climate change denial,
• global warming,
• John Banks,
• John Boscawen,
• New Zealand,
• New Zealand National Party,
• politics,
• Sciblogs,
• Todd Corporation

Last week I commented on the climate change denial machine in New Zealand. A few days later the NZ Herald published some relevant information – the sources and amounts of money going to local political parties from major donors (see … Continue reading → … Read More

Don Brash: climate cluelessâ„¢ to the core - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Jun 30, 2011 •

• ACT,
• Alan Gibbs,
• Climate cranks,
• Climate politics,
• Don Brash,
• ICSC,
• Nigel Lawson,
• NZ CSC,
• Rodney Hide,
• UK,
• wine

The new leader of New Zealand’s far-right ACT Party — the former National Party leader, Don Brash — has confirmed that he’s a fully paid up member of the climate cluelessâ„¢, a worthy successor to Rodney Hide, and perfectly on side with major ACT Party backer, millionaire Alan Gibbs (who just happens to be on [...] … Read More

Brash in pocket - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • May 02, 2011 •

• ACT,
• Alan Gibbs,
• Climate cranks,
• Climate politics,
• cranks,
• Don Brash,
• National

Confirmation that new ACT Party leader Don Brash still considers himself a climate sceptic comes in an interview he gave to arch-libertarian commentator Lindsay Perigo shortly before he launched his takeover putsch (starts as about 24:10 on the Youtube video). Brash happily confirms his scepticism, saying: “I don’t believe the case has been established that [...] … Read More

When asses go to law - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Aug 16, 2010 •

• Alan Gibbs,
• Barry Brill,
• Bryan Leyland,
• Climate cranks,
• Climate politics,
• Climate Science,
• cranks,
• John Boscawen,
• NIWA,
• nz,
• NZ CSC,
• Rodney Hide,
• Salinger,
• Temperature,
• Terry Dunleavy,
• Treadgold

In a bizarre twist to the tale of New Zealand’s climate sceptics and their strange obsession with the minutiae of the history of temperature measurement in New Zealand, it now emerges that they have lodged papers with the High Court [Stuff & NZ Herald, via NZPA], seeking to have the court rule that the National [...] … Read More