- Re: Australian fires, NZ's experience Archived Message
Posted by Morrissey
on January 2, 2020, 4:09 am, in reply to "Australian fires, NZ's experience"
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Beautiful clear skies in Omaha, north of Auckland, yesterday. Not a hint of bush fires to be seen---but I hear on the radio that a sandy film has landed on the Fox Glacier. Omaha is a beatiful place, but it has its ugly side---it's where the science-denying jerk John Key resides in a vulgar mansion, when he's not playing golf in Hawaii. JOHN KEY: Well that might be Mike Joy’s view, but I don’t share that view. STEPHEN SACKUR: But he is very well qualified, isn’t he? He’s looked, for example, at the number of species threatened with extinction in New Zealand, he’s looked at the fact that half your lakes, 90% of your lowland rivers, are now classed as polluted. KEY: Look, I’d hate to get into a flaming row with one of our academics, but he’s offering his view. I think any person that goes down to New Zealand … SACKUR: Yeah but he’s a scientist, it’s based on research, it’s not an opinion he’s plucked from the air. KEY: He’s one academic, and like lawyers, I can provide you with another one that will give you a counterview. Anybody who goes down to New Zealand and looks at our environmental credentials, and looks at New Zealand, then I think for the most part, in comparison with the rest of the world, we are 100% pure – in other words, our air quality is very high, our water quality is very high. BBC Hard Talk, May 2011 https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/10/one-does-have-to-ask-should-they-get.html https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/personal-attacks-on-scientists-not.html https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/key-increasingly-butt-of-cruel-jokes.html |