In light of the “dog ate my homework” admission and other manipulated data scandals by NIWA they have decided to change its name, from National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research to…..

No Idea What’s Ahead.

and what’s more, why does the head of NIWA have two carparks at HQ down the viaduct? Is it so he can park his 911 Porsche across the two parks so it won’t get scratched and also why when Government Ministers are visiting why does he all of a sudden drive a beaten up Suzuki Jimny while the missus driving the 911?

Very strange goings on but The Whale has spies and he knows all.

In further news has Nick “Quota” Smith been slapped up the back of the head?

“Yeah, there’s quite a debate as to whether people want to continue with the United Nations process that proved pretty inadequate in Copenhagen, or whether people want to use some other process, maybe the G20 or something like that, and so I think internationally there’s going to be quite a lot of navel gazing over the next six months or so to try and reposition and find a process that will work.”

Smith followed up by slamming the UN IPCC blunders and warning that similar errors in New Zealand “won’t be tolerated”.

“I think they are concerning…there has been some slip-ups and that’s concerning. I’ve made it quite plain to the New Zealand scientific fraternity that those sorts of slip-ups will not be tolerated and they need to make sure the advice they are giving myself and my cabinet colleagues is straight science and robust science, because the credibility of the climate change problem gets into question even when you get these quite small issues on the fringe where errors have been made.”

How about giving it all away and focus on something real Nick?

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John Key has barely shaken the cards for his Cabinet re-shuffle. Sensibly he has taken Tertiary Education off Anne “The Closer” Tolley, especially now as the Teacher Unions have declared war against National Standards and League Tables. The portfolio has been handed to Steven “Cardinal Richlieu”Joyce, who is fast becoming John Key’s Bill Birch.

The only interesting thing is the preparation Nick “Quota” Smith for political neutering. It isn’t surprising for those who watch politics closely, with his bizarre behaviour at Copnehagen being spoken of in hushed tones. John Key has gone to the Minister who had the only positive result out of the farce of Copenhagen and appointed Tim “Allah” Groser as the  Minister for Climate Change International Negotiations. This is a not to subtle undermining of Nick “Quota” Smith whose time in parliament is likely to come to an ignomious end very shortly.

Which brings me to the topic of Climate  Change.

Now that Copenhagen is dead with China, the US and India saying naff off one has to wonder why we rushed into legislation the ill-conceived ETS. It should immediately be shelved. It is farcical to cripple out productive sectors with taxes that no-one in the rest of the world is ever likely to implement. More to the point it has emerged that Grass Fed cattle are actually better for the environment that grain fed cattle therefore putting our cattle and milk herds in the best position green wise, without doing a single thing.

It is ridiculous to now encumber our productive sector with an ETS. I will go further and suggest it is also ill-conceived to lumber the population with a carbon tax which no doubt that Pinko Farrar will suggest. We need less taxes not more. Ditch the ETS, it was Nick’s idea anyway, so blame him, and resist the urge to put in a carbon tax.

With the so-called science and IPCC shibboleths being destroyed daily, a cautionary wait and see approach would be best, oh and firing Nick “Quota” Smith.

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Rodney Hide is applying the blow torch to Nick Smiths nuts, such as they are.

18894 (2009). Hon Rodney Hide to the Minister for Climate Change Issues

Will he ask NIWA to release the full data on which NIWAs official time series of the mean annual temperature over New Zealand from 1853 to 2008 is based, together with full documentation of any adjustments that have been made to the data to produce the result; if not, why not?

Has he received my open letter dated 27 November 2009 and will he be replying; if so, when?

18892 (2009). Hon Rodney Hide to the Minister for Climate Change Issues

Has he read the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition paper of 25 November 2009 “Are we feeling warmer yet” tabled in Parliament on 26 November 2009; if so, what are his conclusions; if not, why not?

18891 (2009). Hon Rodney Hide to the Minister for Climate Change Issues

What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimate of the world’s temperature change over the past one hundred years, and how does this change compare to NIWA’s estimate of the change in temperature in New Zealand over the past one hundred years?

18890 (2009). Hon Rodney Hide to the Minister for Climate Change Issues

Has he read the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition paper of 25 November 2009 “Are we feeling warmer yet” tabled in Parliament on 26 November 2009; if so, what are his conclusions; if not, why not?

18889 (2009). Hon Rodney Hide to the Minister for Climate Change Issues

Does he accept as true the graph in Figure 7 on NIWA’s website that shows mean annual temperature over New Zealand from 1853 to 2008 inclusive with a plotted linear trend of 0.92°C/100 years; if so, why?

These are valid questions that need real answers as the rest of the world retreats rather fast from the now discredited Global Warming theories. Nick Smith needs to front these questions or he needs to resign.

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Rodney Hide has done what Nick Smith has failed to do and ask for ALL the details of the data at NIWA so we can see if they are cheating us or not. Why is it up to the only honest politician to get the scientists to come clean on why data needs to be manipulated at all, which data was manipulated and the exact reasons why it was?

These are all valid reasons, especially no that we have an ETS system that will cripple our economy if maintained. If the science is bogus then the ETS and associated bullshit that goes with it be tossed out and then the prosecutions can begin for the greatest fraud attempted to committed on the global population in the history of mankind.

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As the world Climate Change/Warmist consensus falls down around the lying scientists ears, meanwhile back here in New Zealand it is business as usual. Only the NZ Herald has picked up the story and devotes a pathetic amount of coverage to what is the biggest scam in the history of the world where an elite group of climate scientists have conspired to massage data, dodging scrutiny, hounding out sceptical editors, fudging figures, the possibly criminal destruction of data under FOI request, tax avoidance, gloating over a sceptic’s death, character assassination of sceptics. admissions of using “tricks” to “hide” inconvenient trends, farming grants, private admissions of grave doubts in their own public warming warnings, close collusion with green groups, the joint concocting of the most alarmist announcements and much more.

Nick Smith is busily stitching up a deal that will need to be passed under urgency, bypassing electoral scrutiny in select committee and all by bribing tribal leaders with a trip to Copenhagen. It is all there in black and white from Nick Smith as I said yesterday.

The bizarre thing about this whole stitch up is that no-one knows exactly how much this is all going to cost us to bribe Maori into supprting something the majority of their MPs oppose. In the NZ Herald this morning we hear the windfall for the select group of elite maoritocracy is to be around $50 million per annum or so says Mark Solomon, the very, very close friend of Sacha McMeeking, the Billion Dollar woman. The Herald even hints at the corruption involved, albeit subtly, with its headline. “$50 million deal buys Maori vote on emissions”

Meanwhile Colin Espiner says that Nick Smith says that it is only $25 million and he has a treasury report to back it up and then we have “a leaked email sent to iwi leaders by the head of the negotiating group, Willie Te Aho, the deal is worth up to $2 billion to Maori, depending on carbon prices.”

What sort of Mickey Mouse outfit do we have here?

How can the biggest danger to our economy be passed under urgency so that New Zealand and its aging kapa haka group can wave a piece of paper at a dead conference in Copenhagen to say we were first and all based on science that is daily proven to be a lie?

UPDATE: The Standard’s author MartyG agrees with the Whale.

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Cactus Kate asked an interesting question this morning on her post about taxpayer subsidies for the Maoritocracy, the select 5 iwi with special treatment under Nick Smith’s secret deal over the ETS.

How many staffers that influence Maori Party policy have direct links to these Iwi? Show us the conflicts.

Sources around parliament tell me that the deal is so secret that other senior members of cabinet were not even aware of the deal as late as last night. Those same sources tell me that the $100 billion woman, so to speak, is Sacha McMeeking. I took the liberty of applying the tried and true blogger technique of Googling her.

She is a university academic, a high-ranking Ngai Tahu exec, the secretariat for the Iwi Leadership Group and is now being paid amongst others by the Maori Party to negotiate with National!

How can one person have so much power over whether a $100 billion policy goes ahead or not????

Sacha McMeeking is of Ngai Tahu descent, and is aged in her early thirties (either 31 or 32). Ms McMeeking is the General Manager Strategy and Influence with Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu, having returned after lecturing in law at the University of Canterbury and consulting for iwi and the Treaty Tribes Coalition.

The foreshore and seabed issue brought together her academic and advisory interests, enabling her to support Treaty Tribes Coalition advocacy in the United Nations, resulting in the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination finding that New Zealand was in breach of international human rights standards.

In her current role, Ms McMeeking has moved far beyond her legal background into a range of areas including providing political advice, brand and reputation management skills, and the integration of tikanga to incorporate governance arrangements. She is also on the Council of the University of Canterbury.

Other details gleaned from Google include:
In 2004, Ms McMeeking was co-spokesperson of “Te Mangaroa” organisation that occupied New Brighton Pier in Dec 2004 in opposition to foreshore and seabed legislation. Following the end of the occupation, she commented that:

“We welcome a summer-long protest movement, signalling to the Government that they will be held to account at the polls….We believe that Mahara Okeroa will receive his dues at the next election. He maintains that the legislation improves recognition of Maori customary rights, because it is a clear and certain statutory framework. He is simply wrong. The only certainty is that Maori property rights have been extinguished, and that there will be no recognition of customary rights because the statutory framework is the most restrictive and reductive in the Commonwealth. He turned his back on his electorate when he voted for the Bill, inevitably, his electorate has turned their back on him”

In November 2005, Ms McMeeking joined a voluntary ad-hoc Maori organising committee formed to ensure Maori participation in the visit to New Zealand by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights and Funadamental Freedoms of Indigenous Peoples

Ms McMeeking spoke as an “expert” at a forum organised by the Green Party on “Protecting the RMA” in March this year.

Ms McMeeking was keynote speaker at Amnesty International’s AGM in Auckland this year. Her speech focused on the legal system and the need to balance Maori human rights with protecting the rights of other New Zealanders.

In July this year, Ms McMeeking delivered a presentation at the Indigenous Legal Water Forum (an international conference at Otago University)titled “Navigating the National Landscape”

Ms McMeeking spoke at this year’s Hillary Symposium on the role of Ngai Tahu in addressing climate change.

She has a reputation in some quarters as a role model for young Maori women aspiring to future success

In 2006, Ms McMeeking was awarded the Ngata Centenary Doctoral Scholarship at Canterbury University

That is a brief summary of what I found on Google about Sacha McMeeking, the woman holding New Zealand’s economic fortune in her youthful hands. The $100 billion woman is a woman of many hats and one can only wonder how she manages to maintain professional standards representing so many different organisations as well as being on the payroll of multiple organisations.

What is The Prime Minister’s go-to man, Wayne Eagleson, to think when Ms McMeeking walks in for a meeting. Is she there representing Ngai Tahu? perhaps it is the University of Canterbury? Maybe the Maori Party? OIr some of her former activist organisations? Certainly this capable woman is a woman of many hats. Just which hats she wears at any one time is anyones guess.

The worse proposition though is that she speaks on behalf of the unelected Iwi Leadership Group, which is a largely secret grouping of the elite Maoritocracy, who have seemingly negotiated a secret deal that not even senior members of cabinet are yet aware of to committ the greatest robbery of public assets in the history of New Zealand and hand them over to a select privileged group of Maori in an undemocratic, and unchallenged manner.

Question 1 today certainly looks to be interesting from John Boscawen and one wonders how Nick Smith will weasel his way out of that one. This is an issue that stands to cost this coutnry dearly while every other country resiles from Copenhagen. Nick Smith is plunging us headlong into economic oblivion to solve a problem that does not exist and the woman whipping us along that route to detruction is a veteran protestor and maori protagonist in the pay of many paymasters.

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I watched Tv3 tonight and I am outraged. It appears that Nick Smith has stitched up a deal with establishment Maori to gift to them  some of the Conservation Estate so they can grow trees with taxpayer handouts on it and own the said trees in order to “compensate” them for aspects of the ETS which robs forest owners including Maori forest owners of billions of dollars of land value.

Five  special iwi (The Brown’d Table) which have already signed treaty settlements have scored a backroom deal to rob the taxpayer even more and leaving out those maori who haven’t signed treaty settlements and us poor white mofo’s out in the cold. No wonder Hone Harawira is going off like a fire-cracker because Ngapuhi are left out of the secret deal.

And all this to solve a problem that doesn’t even exist.

Nick Smith has no right to hand out the Conservation estate that is our birthright as all New Zealanders. The joke of all this is that Nick Smith is rushing to pass this legislation in order to have it a done deal by the time the Copenhagen talkfest opens. Onethe same news channel they run a story that world leaders are supporting a plan to delay the pact in the first place. So why is Nick Smith rushing New Zealand headlong into economic disaster when the rest of the world is suddenly holding back. It is simply madness.

It is madness not only from National implementing race-based preferential treatment for a select few establishment maori bro-racracy but also in the cost associated for solving this mythical problem but the Government has bollocks’d up the estimated cost to solve the non-problem and is now going to rip $110 billion from the consumer in order to subsidise our biggest polluters.

This may be a bit presumptuous of me but Nick Smith and the rest of his mad bunch of Warmist mofo’s can just go and fuck themselves.

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As usual, Brian Fallow hits the nail on the head in the Herald.  Just why is mad Nick Smith so obsessed with getting his lunatic ETS in place before the UN’s big talkfest in Copenhagen? 

As Fallow says:

No doubt it would be nice for New Zealand’s representatives at Copenhagen to be able to say: “Apart from the Europeans we are the only ones to have an emissions trading scheme on the statute books.”

In fact they could say that now.

But anyone at Copenhagen listening to that claim is likely either not to care, or to see through it.

Mad Nick is defying  the Prime Minister with his obsession.  Remember John Key said that New Zealand shouldn’t try to be a heroic leader on climate change anymore.  Seems no one told Nick.

Fallow also reveals Mad Nick’s scheme is designed to raise at least another $2 billion in taxes a year:

 By 2030 the government would have been making about $4 billion a year out of it (assuming, rather conservatively, a carbon price of $50 a tonne). Under the amended scheme it will be half that.

This is also a direct challenge to the Prime Minister who has promised that the revised ETS will be fiscally-neutral.  Nick – collecting $2 billion a year ain’t fiscally-neutral.  It’s called raising taxes and its what National Ministers are meant to be against. You’re in the wrong party. 

Mad Nick also told Parliament yesterday that “we are the first country in the world to include forestry in an emissions trading scheme” – again, that’s a direct challenge to the Prime Minister who has said we shouldn’t try to be the world’s leader.

He also said that in Australia, “there is a complete ban on any deforestation of pre-1990 forests”.  Turns out that’s not true.  Mad Nick must have just thought it would sound good when he said it in Parliament.  But that’s called misleading the House.  Maybe he forgot to take his pills. 

Mad Nick is making a fool of the Prime Minister.  Time for John Key to grow some balls and sack him.

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<gritted teeth>It gives me me great pleasure to announce that Nick Smith is this weeks Gotcha! and Whale Oil Beef Hooked Politician of the Week</gritted teeth>

Everyone knows I think Nick Smith is a plonker and a liability but this week he finally said out loud what everyone including myself has been thinking.

“If my doctor told me that I was terminally ill and I had 30 days to live, with the ACC rules the way they are, I’d be finding myself a train to throw myself under on the 29th day because my family would be treated so much more generously,” he said.

This is refreshing honesty shown by a politician and as my example showed yesterday he is dead right. In fact the younger your family the earlier you should throw yourself under a train to maximise your “entitlements”

I don’t see why Nick Smith should have to apologise for telling the truth, he should instead be commended and so <gritted teeth> it is with the greatest of pleasure that he receives this award</gritted teeth>.

As a prize might I suggest he helps himself to some taxpayer funded air travel and go open a coal mine or watch some native timber being felled or something useful rather than implementing an ETS. Well done Nick Smith.

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