[Pil-pc-oceania] Fwd: frogblog: weekly digest

[Robyn Williamson]

Latest news from the NZ Greens forwarded fyi.

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> From: frogblog <frogblog at greens.org.nz>
> Date: Sun Jun 10, 2007  9:00:06 am Australia/Sydney
> To: robinet at aapt.net.au
> Subject: frogblog: weekly digest
> Reply-To: frogblog at greens.org.nz
>
> This is your weekly digest from frogblog.
>
> ** How right were we? **
> Well it's all over, G8 has talked about climate change and come up  
> with a firm decision that someone should be doing something.
> The leaders decided that emissions should be reduced by 50 percent by  
> 2050, but how that was to happen was left unsaid.
> They also agreed that each of the eight countries must have  
> "substantial" reductions in emissions. Substantial is one of those  
> lovely words like "aspirational", ...
> ( http://blog.greens.org.nz/index.php?p=1696 )
>
> ** Weird things on the weather front **
> It has not gone unnoticed that some strange things appear to be  
> happening with the weather. Hmmm, wonder what's going on?
> Here's the latest highlights from NIWA for autumn:
> Major Highlights:
> . The highest temperature recorded during the autumn was 32 ∞C  
> recorded at Darfield on 5 March, and Culverden on 24 March. On 1 May,  
> many Northland locations recorded new extreme May maximum temperatures  
> ranging ...
> ( http://blog.greens.org.nz/index.php?p=1695 )
>
> ** How to do nothing about climate change **
> With the G8 meeting about to kick off in Germany, it has become clear  
> that both Bush and Hu and Wen - no, not who and when? Hu and Wen.  
> (Sorry couldn't resist), have realised they had better say somethng  
> about climate change, before German Chancellor Angela Merkel bullies  
> them into something they don't actually want.
> Merkel wants G8 leaders to endorse a goal of halving the world's  
> greenhouse gas emissions ...
> ( http://blog.greens.org.nz/index.php?p=1694 )
>
> ** can't justify staying at home in pj's using carbon footprint  **
> according to the Daily Telegraph.
> This article reckons that while working at home might reduce carbon  
> created from the commute, other variables such as making a cuppa and  
> heating the home may outweigh that.
> Will just have to use the "frogs consistently score higher on  
> productivity tests when working from the couch" argument instead.
> ( http://blog.greens.org.nz/index.php?p=1693 )
>
> ** Green AGM **
> And so the 2007 Green Party conference has come to an end. The party  
> is in good shape. I thought that it might be a pretty quiet conference  
> - mid way through the electoral cycle and after the large conference  
> last year (with all the interest in the male co-leadership contest).  
> But there were more than 150 there and it had good energy.
> My speech looked at corporate globalisation and sketched out what ...
> ( http://blog.greens.org.nz/index.php?p=1692 )
>
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