From Andrew Bolt;

Barack Obama:

Few chal­lenges fac­ing Amer­ica and the world are more urgent than com­bat­ing cli­mate change.The sci­ence is beyond dis­pute and the facts are clear.

100 sci­en­tists:

With all due respect Mr. Pres­i­dent, that is not true.

We, the under­signed sci­en­tists, main­tain that the case for alarm regard­ing cli­mate change is grossly over­stated. Sur­face tem­per­a­ture changes over the past cen­tury have been episodic and mod­est and there has been no net global warm­ing for over a decade now. After con­trol­ling for pop­u­la­tion growth and prop­erty val­ues, there has been no increase in dam­ages from severe weather-related events. The com­puter mod­els fore­cast­ing rapid tem­per­a­ture change abjectly fail to explain recent cli­mate behav­ior. Mr. Pres­i­dent, your char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of the sci­en­tific facts regard­ing cli­mate change and the degree of cer­tainty inform­ing the sci­en­tific debate is sim­ply incorrect.

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Anger at purge of ACC union­ists – A major rift has opened between union­ists and ACC Min­is­ter Nick Smith after National purged union rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the board of the state-owned acci­dent insurer. [Stuff Pol­i­tics]

The unions are upset that Nick Smith has purged the ACC Board of union lickspittles.

One word for them springs to mind and it was uttered by Helen Clark in par­lia­ment. “Diddums!”

The other words that imme­di­ately spring to mind are “We won, you lost, eat that!”.

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Tizard time-bomb tick­ing under Mt Albert – Labour’s “Tizard dilemma” is not going to resolve itself, with Judith Tizard hang­ing on to the ticket that will get her back to Par­lia­ment. The cause of the prob­lem is the Mt Albert byelec­tion: if list MP Phil Twyford wins the… [NZ Her­ald Pol­i­tics]

Patrick Gower exposes the upgrad­ing of the Tizard Dilemma to a Time Bomb.

Unfor­tu­nately for Labour Tizard hasn’t really helped the sit­u­a­tion with her com­ments to Patrick.Ms Tizard said Labour would be silly to buy into the “Tizard dilemma” and try and keep her out.

“If there is not a place for a 53-year-old woman who has been in elected posi­tions for 26 of her 31 years, I guess I would want to know what the prob­lem was.”

Ms Tizard said she had not yet been approached to stand aside, nor had she gone to the party to ask if there was a problem.

She said she was enjoy­ing life out­side Par­lia­ment and was aston­ished at the “crazi­ness” of spec­u­la­tion about her pos­si­ble return.

“I am gar­den­ing, I am spend­ing time with my friends and fam­ily. I am read­ing, I am writ­ing. I have just gone and bought a lamp­shade. I have a life.”

Rii­i­i­ight, So The Tiz thinks that the demo­graphic for Bar­ren Old Bid­dies with no work expe­ri­ence is under rep­re­sented. She just can’t stop telling lies though, as if she has any friends, no one believes that, even The Stan­dard is openly mock­ing her.

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Come on, you didn’t really think I would go soft and take a gov­ern­ment posi­tion did you? Or quit blog­ging? Surely you didn’t think that National would do some­thing sen­si­ble in mt Albert like run Don Brash? There also isn’t a Dairy and Fast Food ven­dors asso­ci­a­tion for so thre wouldn’t be any appoint­ments there. Though I am not sure that the Worth sack­ing was a joke….might have to wait on that one.

Today is April Fool’s Day and boy some of you are just hys­ter­i­cal. THe emails and voice­mails fea­ture some very pow­er­ful and con­nected peo­ple who fell for it.

Plenty have pranks have been played;

• DPF teased us all with the sug­ges­tion that Cullen was the going to be the new Gov­er­nor of the Reserve Bank
• The NZ Her­ald had a story about Microsoft buy­ing Apple
• Cameron Brewer, the nice guy from the New­mar­ket Busi­ness Asso­ci­a­tion put out a press release call­ing for Auck­land to go one step fur­ther and declare them­selves a republic.

“We’re effect­ing advo­cat­ing for a two-city model for the region – the Super City of Auck­land and Newmarket.

The New­mar­ket Busi­ness Asso­ci­a­tion had advised Local Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter and local MP Rod­ney Hide of its inten­tions. Mr Brewer has just returned from a study trip to Whang­amomona – a remote Taranaki ghost town that has actively pro­moted its con­sti­tu­tional inde­pen­dence over the past 20 years.

• But per­haps the best April Fool’s trick was the done by The Stan­dard where they annouced that they were out­sourc­ing their infra­struc­ture off­shore and pay­ing good money to Amer­i­can Cor­po­rates for the host­ing of their site. They even bagged local host­ing com­pa­nies. It surely must have been a joke because Lynne, the guy with the girls name, has pulled the post. Surely they wouldn’t aban­don Kiwi work­ers and busi­nesses over few pal­try shekels.

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This will be my last ever post on Whale Oil Beef Hooked. It has been a blast. I have taken many scalps but alas due to a pend­ing announce­ment I will no longer be blog­ging. It would place me in a ter­ri­ble posi­tion of con­flict of inter­est to do so.

So folks, this is the last post. Thanks for all your support.

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Insid­ers of the National Party have today revealed to WOBH that Richard Worth will be sacked by lunchtime. He has embar­rassed the prime Min­is­ter and acted like a com­plete tool and there­fore the prime Min­is­ter has lost con­fi­dence in him.

The same insid­ers are also telling me of a deal that has been done over Mt Albert. Melissa Lee will drop her inter­est in the seat in order to replace Richard Worth as Min­is­ter of inter­nal Affairs. Ravi Musuku will be given a prime gov­ern­ment board place­ment in order to like­wise drop his inter­est and Don Brash will accept the nom­i­na­tion to stand for National in Mt Albert.

The news that Don Brash will stand is fan­tat­sic and will bust that con­test wide open. You would be a fool to stand against Don Brash now.

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Just hours after accus­ing Air NZ of hat­ing Kiwi work­ers the Labour/EPMU lap-blog, The Stan­dard has aban­doned New Zealand themselves.

After being caught tak­ing host­ing from the Labour Party despite say­ing they were “inde­pen­dent” they appear to have fallen on hard times and decamped to cheaper for­eign off­shore hosting.

This is highly hyp­o­crit­i­cal of them after repeat­edly call­ing for Kiwi jobs for Kiwi work­ers and gen­er­ally attack­ing any­one or thing that even sug­gested out­sourc­ing to over­seas. They have now effec­tively out­sourced their hard­ware infra­struc­ture and robbed hard work­ing Kiwi host­ing com­pa­nies of work. They have exported themselves.

The Stan­dard, in a clas­sic case of utter hypocrisy is now pour­ing Kiwi Dol­lars into large Amer­i­can Corporations.

Lynn (the guy with the girls name) even runs down hard-working Kiwi host­ing com­pa­nies in his New Zealand Sucks post.

Finally it is with huge irony I note that their new host is Bluehost.com…..What’s the mat­ter boys wouldn’t Pinko­Host take you on?

Whale Oil Beef Hooked is proud to sup­port local host­ing companies.

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Every­one knows that Charles Chau­vel is gay, today he proved that he is also gay, as in lame.

Cow­boy Chuck Chau­vel has got so des­per­ate to make an impact he has taken to trolling the Face­book pages of National Min­is­te­r­ial Advi­sors to try and find stories.

Gerry flubbed the answer too, he should have stood there and declared that Earth Hour was a fraud along with Global Warm­ing instead of his polit­i­cally cor­rect, namby-pamby answer. 

The key thing here though is this. In National you don’t have to be a “believer” to work for a min­is­ter. In fact you can hold con­trar­ian views. I know that this is unheard of inside Labour offices, it is almost tan­ta­mount to trea­son to dis­agree with the Mem­ber of Parliament.

In National oppos­ing views can quite hap­pily co-exist in the same party, branch, office, even a minister’s office. it is healthy to have dif­fer­ing opinions.

Charles Chau­vel should stop trolling and start act­ing like the golden boy he would like to think he is.

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I am sure that Judith Collins can find a use in the Police or Cor­rec­tions for  “The Crusher“.

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Judith “Crusher” Collins deliv­ers yet another bash­ing of Clay­ton Cos­grove who seems intent on prov­ing two things, a) that he is woe­fully inept and b) he wants to den­i­grate the Police force.

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The lef­t­ards at the Lap-blog The Stan­dard actu­ally do seem to have a sense of humour. They have posted this out­stand­ing burn of Judith Tizard. Now if the lap-bloggers are shun­ning you with mirth then I think it is fair to say that you have had your chance and it will be a cold day in hell before they will give you another one.

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Labour would have stripped Worth of port­fo­lio – Goff – Inter­nal Affairs Min­is­ter Richard Worth would have been stripped of his port­fo­lio over the con­flict of inter­est con­tro­versy if he had been a Labour MP, Oppo­si­tion leader Phil Goff says. Dr Worth vis­ited India and spoke in his min­is­te­r­ial… [NZ Her­ald Pol­i­tics]

Oh hardy har-har, Phil Goff reck­ons he would have sacked Richard Worth. has he for­got­ten the Win­ston Peters side trip to Las Vegas. Phil Goff has no integrity on this mat­ter. I’d lis­ten more to Jim Ander­ton call­ing for his sack­ing that the tem­po­rary leader of the opposition.

Now per­son­ally I would sack Richard Worth any­way. But not for his sup­posed con­flict of inter­est. More for his embar­rass­ment of his leader and for giv­ing the impres­sion of impropiety.

I would also sack Richard Worth because given his answers in the house today it is appar­ent that he was facil­i­tated thru Immi­gra­tion and Cus­toms in New Zealand by Min­Ser­vices which is hardly the actions of some­one trav­el­ling on his own ticket. This is exactly why I called repeat­edly for Win­ston to be sacked.

I have seen cab­i­net min­is­ters of National and Labour gov­ern­ments that were trav­el­ling on their own ticket queue like the rest of us…it is clear that Richard Worth did no such thing. It mat­ters not a jot that Worth paid for his fare him­self, it is appear­ances that mat­ter and from all the infor­ma­tion com­ing to light it would seem that appear­ances are very dif­fer­ent from mr Worth’s ver­sion of events.

That in my book is enough to sack him.

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First there was the com­ment, then there was the Face­book group.

Now there is the t-shirt.

Paul Henry for Mt Albert I say.

Imag­ine the fun for the by-election of Paul Henry stood.

Seri­ously though TVNZ has done a won­der­ful PR job on this. Firstly the pro­ducer gave him the fax, then he did what he was told, then TVNZ had the video up on Youtube quicker than is usual and then the blogs were notified.

The lef­t­ards have reacted exactly as pre­dicted and now you have a viral sensation.

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Seven Labour can­di­dates tipped to try for Mt Albert seat – A seven-way fight is brew­ing within Labour’s ranks for the chance to take Helen Clark’s Mt Albert seat. The Her­ald has learned that Labour list MP Phil Twyford has not ruled out con­test­ing the can­di­dacy. Mr Twyford was ini­tially… [NZ Her­ald Pol­i­tics]

The Her­ald list seven Labour can­di­dates to replace the men­da­cious Helen Clark. A sor­rier list of can­di­dates couldn’t be found if they tried. Labour needs to rebuild, not select more medi­oc­rity. It is in the N/national inter­est that Labour has strong can­di­dates, they need their “Don Brash”, they need some­one strong not this bunch of limp-wristed ne’er-do-wells.

Phil Twyford – Helen’s cho­sen heir but sad­dled with the unfor­tu­nate T-squared dilemma. Vote Twyford get Tizard.

Louisa Wall – ex-netball player, les­bian and so out of favour with almost every fac­tion in the Labour Party she has almost zero chance of selection

Hamish McCracken – the entirely for­get­table punch­ing bag of the North Shore. An eco­nom­ics lec­turer, surely we have learned from the last one we had. Plus he used to work for the EPMU. He must have been tits at it because those jobs are usu­ally jobs for life.

Helen White  – is another for­mer EPMU worker and a bloody lawyer. We need more lawyers in par­lia­ment like I need cancer.

Glenda Fryer – I know some bill­board own­ers that would love Glenda Fryer to stand. She, report­edly, is demand­ing the selec­tion. A busy-body of the high­est standing.

Conor Roberts – By all accounts he is sup­posed to be a good bloke for a pinko but he sure as hell isn’t a “Don Brash”.

Meg Bates – a loyal lick­spit­tle from Helen Clark’s Mt Albert office, she will do what Helen says and Helen says it is Phil.

Losers to the last, National must be lick­ing their lips in anticipation.

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We’re all doomed the warmists exclaim, we’re all going to drown they whine end­lessly, Didn’t you see An Incon­ve­nient Truth? they whimper.

And they lie, they tell the great­est lie ever told.

If one thing more than any other is used to jus­tify pro­pos­als that the world must spend tens of tril­lions of dol­lars on com­bat­ing global warm­ing, it is the belief that we face a dis­as­trous rise in sea lev­els. The Antarc­tic and Green­land ice caps will melt, we are told, warm­ing oceans will expand, and the result will be catastrophe.

Although the UN’s Inter­gov­ern­men­tal Panel on Cli­mate Change (IPCC) only pre­dicts a sea level rise of 59cm (17 inches) by 2100, Al Gore in his Oscar-winning film An Incon­ve­nient Truth went much fur­ther, talk­ing of 20 feet, and show­ing com­puter graph­ics of cities such as Shang­hai and San Fran­cisco half under water. We all know the graphic show­ing cen­tral Lon­don in sim­i­lar plight. As for tiny island nations such as the Mal­dives and Tuvalu, as Prince Charles likes to tell us and the Arch­bishop of Can­ter­bury was again par­rot­ing last week, they are due to van­ish.
But if there is one sci­en­tist who knows more about sea lev­els than any­one else in the world it is the Swedish geol­o­gist and physi­cist Nils-Axel Mörner, for­merly chair­man of the INQUA Inter­na­tional Com­mis­sion on Sea Level Change. And the uncom­pro­mis­ing ver­dict of Dr Mörner, who for 35 years has been using every known sci­en­tific method to study sea lev­els all over the globe, is that all this talk about the sea ris­ing is noth­ing but a colos­sal scare story.

Despite fluc­tu­a­tions down as well as up, “the sea is not ris­ing,” he says. “It hasn’t risen in 50 years.” If there is any rise this cen­tury it will “not be more than 10cm (four inches), with an uncer­tainty of plus or minus 10cm”. And quite apart from exam­in­ing the hard evi­dence, he says, the ele­men­tary laws of physics (latent heat needed to melt ice) tell us that the apoc­a­lypse con­jured up by
Al Gore and Co could not pos­si­bly come about.

If any­one knows about sea-levels it is this guy and he has looked at the com­puter mod­els and found the lie, the big lie;

The rea­son why Dr Mörner, for­merly a Stock­holm pro­fes­sor, is so cer­tain that these claims about sea level rise are 100 per cent wrong is that they are all based on com­puter model pre­dic­tions, whereas his find­ings are based on “going into the field to observe what is actu­ally hap­pen­ing in the real world”.

When run­ning the Inter­na­tional Com­mis­sion on Sea Level Change, he launched a spe­cial project on the Mal­dives, whose lead­ers have for 20 years been call­ing for vast sums of inter­na­tional aid to stave off dis­as­ter. Six times he and his expert team vis­ited the islands, to con­firm that the sea has not risen for half a cen­tury. Before announc­ing his find­ings, he offered to show the inhab­i­tants a film explain­ing why they had noth­ing to worry about. The gov­ern­ment refused to let it be shown.

Sim­i­larly in Tuvalu, where local lead­ers have been call­ing for the inhab­i­tants to be evac­u­ated for 20 years, the sea has if any­thing dropped in recent decades. The only evi­dence the scare­mon­gers can cite is based on the fact that extract­ing ground­wa­ter for pineap­ple grow­ing has allowed sea­wa­ter to seep in to replace it. Mean­while, Venice has been sink­ing rather than the Adri­atic ris­ing, says Dr Mörner.

One of his most shock­ing dis­cov­er­ies was why the IPCC has been able to show sea lev­els ris­ing by 2.3mm a year. Until 2003, even its own satellite-based evi­dence showed no upward trend. But sud­denly the graph tilted upwards because the IPCC’s favoured experts had drawn on the find­ing of a sin­gle tide-gauge in Hong Kong har­bour show­ing a 2.3mm rise. The entire global sea-level pro­jec­tion was then adjusted upwards by a “cor­rec­tive fac­tor” of 2.3mm, because, as the IPCC sci­en­tists admit­ted, they “needed to show a trend”.

Let us hear no more of ris­ing sea lev­els, let us hear no more about com­puter mod­els show us…..it is all bol­locks, pseudo-science wrapped up in Warmist Jihadi fear mongering.

Al Gore and all the oth­ers that have lied about Cli­mate Change should be pub­licly pil­lo­ried and then exiled to the sub-Antarctic.

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