Nick Young

The US spy base in Blenheim, New Zealand has been the target of protesters and pranksters before.
This morning, 30 April 2008, a group of Ploughshares activists entered the base an actually managed to deflate one of the domes.
Here’s their press release:

The Heartland Institute (a very dodgy outfit it seems ) recently issued a lit of 500 scientists they say have “Documented Doubts of Man-Made Global Warming Scares”. That’s a lot of scientists and a lot of doubt if it were true. The list includes several New Zealanders including Jim Salinger from NIWA.
Heartland funded [and] the [...]

For 450 years, the world has colluded against us to hide the truth from the public. We have been downtrodden by an extraordinarily complex conspiracy run by governments who have coerced their scientific cohorts at institutions like NASA to do things like fabricate photographs of the earth. They have even hidden all evidence of the giant Ice Wall which encircles our crepe shaped home from the public. It’s incredibly depressing; we are looking for support as well as offering it!

Over at Gareth Renowden’ s Hot Topic blog the ‘Climate cranks claim a scalp‘ post has been removed with the following disclaimer:
This post removed at the request of The Listener and their friends at Bell Gully.
He provides some explanation here and here.
The story has created quite a little storm in the blog sphere including a [...]

Ecospot: Grand Prize Winner: Sky is Falling // Current

In Al Gores brand-new slideshow premiering exclusively on TED.com, he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of “generational mission” — the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement — to set it right. [...]

According to NIWA climate change could see pubs run dry
Beer enthusiasts and environmental advocates came out to Save the Ales in Ames, Iowa, last week, combining fun and education while they learned about effects of climate on beer.

After a little hint on the Rainbow Warrior blog this morning Greenpeace activists have exposed the NZ fueling climate change again … this time with dairy expansion. More milk for the new Chinese markets maybe.
Greenpeace reveal Dairy expansion out of control

One of my most enduring childhood memories is the Nambassa festival in 1979.
Came across this video just now …