Tagged: Ralph Sims

Politicians, climate change and evidence abuse - Griffin's Gadgets

Peter Griffin • Apr 17, 2014 •

• climate change,
• emissions,
• Groser,
• Ralph Sims

I’ve recently been re-reading The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters, the book by former Times science editor Mark Henderson, which examines the often flagrant disregard for scientific evidence shown by politicians around the world. New Zealand politicians of all persuasions are as guilty of evidence abuse as their overseas counterparts. Examples of this abound, most famously, the Prime Minister’s causal … Read More

Lip service: it’s all climate action ever gets from Key & Co - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Apr 16, 2014 •

• Bob Lloyd,
• Climate business,
• Climate politics,
• Climate Science,
• John Key,
• Kennedy Graham,
• Phillip Mills,
• Pure Advantage,
• Ralph Sims,
• Science Media Centre,
• Steven Joyce,
• Susan Krumdieck,
• Tim Groser

As expected, the New Zealand government’s response to the IPCC’s Working Group 3 report on mitigating climate change pays lip service to the science, while maintaining that NZ is doing all that can be expected. Climate change minister Tim Groser’s press release said that the IPCC report’s call for intentional cooperation meant that NZ is […] … Read More