Top 5 - 13 May 2026
My top picks from the past week
Top 5
1. There are many of us that are waiting for this question to be asked, openly, honestly and sincerely.
https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/opinion/when-will-it-be-called-grievous-bodily-harm-or-murder/
2. Jaspreet and Don do a great job on explaining RCP’s and what the impact of the IPCC declaring RCP 8.5 as implausible could mean to all of us. We should all be holding our government and council’s accountable for using RCP 8.5 and wasting millions on the reports that have led to the devaluation of many properties in NZ.
What also needs pointing out, is that any RCP model is still primarily based on the assumption that CO2 is the main driver and if that science is incorrect, which I know it is, then none of it should be applied.
We need to draw attention to the main greenhouse gas being water vapour and that is controlled by sun activity affecting cosmic rays, which affect cloud cover and therefore earth’s albedo: While a lazy sun, with a weak magnetic field, lets in more cosmic rays from the stars. And in the air they make more clouds. - from https://www.daragrennie.com/climate/
It is being forecast that we are going into a cooler period from 2030-ish for practically the rest of the century. I’d like to see this called out as what we really need to be preparing for. You can read Roger Pielke Jr’s article and another here.
https://rcr.media/episodes/greenwashed-rcp8-5-is-officially-dead/
3. The above is good news that we can use to help hold our government and our councils to account for the millions of dollars, of our money, they have wasted flogging the RCP 8.5 model over our heads and property values. Watch this space for what we can do.
From RCR Bites: (If you’re not reading this free subscription Mon-Fri news report you can sign up here: www.BiteMe.News
Climate model behind managed retreat being scrapped
Managed Retreat and the climate model used to implement it is being scrapped across New Zealand, leaving councils with millions of dollars of worthless coastal hazard reports. The model called RCP 8.5, is the “worst case” climate scenario used by the United Nations to predict future emissions. New Zealand councils have used the model to justify millions in coastal planning, including managed retreat contingency plans and placing hazard warnings on property files or LIM reports. It has also influenced an increase to insurance for coastal home owners.
Coastal Ratepayers United (CRU) chair Salima Padamsey, who has fought against councils using RCP 8.5 in planning, told RCR, “the Ministry will now have to admit it can’t use the model anymore, and every single council report based on it will have to be redone. That’s going to cost thousands and thousands of dollars,” she said. Padamsey also told RCR engineering firm Jacobs has been writing climate adaptation reports all over New Zealand without proper peer review processes in place. After residents in the North Canterbury town of Amberly contacted CRU, Padamsey says they approached Hurunui District Council for the peer review of the Jacobs report for the region. She says the council kept changing its story, claiming it had relied on a separate report done in Timaru. When Padamsey then contacted Timaru, they had no record of such a report. “They don’t have it. The council doesn’t hold that report”, she said.
The same pattern has now emerged on the Kapiti Coast where the CRU is taking the council to court for a second time. Council General Counsel Sarah Wattie has written to the CRU saying “the council does not accept” that it has broken its agreements or obligations. The council has offered to meet with representatives from the CRU on 28 May, but wouldn’t agree to exclude councillors who skip the meeting from future discussions on the matter. Padamsey says the biggest problem is councils have ignored the law.
The news comes as the far north settlement of Whirinaki has been confirmed as potentially the first community in New Zealand to be entirely relocated, following damaging floods in March of this year. The floods affected 65 homes, and made nine uninhabitable. Some Whirinaki residents are for the move, with others determined to stay on their land. The relocation would cost $60 million, and is based on the very modelling in question, highlighting the CRU’s concerns around genuine risk versus unreliable assessments.
4. A lot of good info in this one. Much of what you’ll see in my climate page with some more depth. Increasing warmth is not the issue!!! Increasing cold is. It is being predicted we will be entering a cold period around 2030 and staying there for much of this century. That is what we really should be preparing for. Luckily for those of us in NZ we won’t experience the effects as much as the northern hemisphere because it’s easier to freeze land than it is to freeze the ocean. I have to wonder if China really doesn’t believe in human caused global warming and is aware of the coming cold period, and is buying up land all over the place to grow food for their population that will not be able to grow food in a colder climate?
5. How does a healthy fit guy with all the right biomarkers, have a heart attack? That’s what took Daniel down the road of delving into the field of nutrition science, if it can be called that, and getting infuriated at the lies he found there. Take special note of the story at around 13 mins about Gilead creating a cure for Hep C and Goldman Sachs reining them in on it. Can’t have cures ruining the business model. Here’s the timestamp if you just want to listen to that.
Short Shareables
1. I wonder if Chloe talks so fast because she is not stopping to think about what it is she is saying? A great example of someone caught up in the narrative of fear around ‘human caused catastrophic climate change’ whose fear drives her to blindly accept what the powers that shouldn’t be are telling her she must do to save us all.
2. Something to think about. If you somehow can’t access Mike Yeadon’s Telegram channel and the video, it’s about questioning the narratives we are given. Ivermectin was basically banned in the ‘Covid era’ but thereafter we were told that cancer was from parasites and Ivermectin is displayed with fanfare in the alternate media to deal with that. How much of it is real is the question. The funny thing about us humans is the issue of trust. We often trust in things that we really shouldn’t. The main thing I have found with trust is that who we choose to trust depends on what we believe in and how we relate to various feelings about what is in front of us. We need to learn to question our beliefs and our relationship to what we are feeling about an issue, so that we can free our minds to clarify what may be real and what is propaganda or mis and dis information. That’s an ongoing journey.
https://t.me/DrMikeYeadonsolochannel/4953
3. Some sanity around the idea of “Hantavirus”. It won’t necessarily affect the misinformed minds of our politicians and councils sadly;)
4. Forced nutrient starvation for the oldies. Limited to less than 80 grams of beef/lamb per week!!!! Watch out for governments and city councils signing us up to this crap.
5. Two things that prove we are not meant to eat carbohydrates. #1 we have the wrong kind of insulin.
https://youtube.com/shorts/sGfuIQKdJGA?si=-_LlI4cPimSVcMrI
Actionables
1. With the threat of Rantavirus or Hantavirus as they call it, all I can suggest is that if you haven’t read Virus Mania yet, now would be a good time. If you have read it, then I’d recommend rereading it. Encourage others to do the same.
https://drsambailey.com/shop-2/
2. Submission against the Free Trade Agreement with India is due by May 17
Background info:
A template to follow if you want one.
https://sovereign.nz/fta/
3. GE Honesty in Auckland - May 16
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Fg6QhLm48/
4. Fuel Tax Protest - Nationwide - also May 16
Keep a look out on their FB page if you want to be involved
https://www.facebook.com/share/g/18SEXY2itr/
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Here's a thought - if humans eat more vegetable matter in the form of legumes, grains and lentils, do they produce more methane than a more carnivore diet?
If they do, any gains in reducing greenhouse gases will be cancelled out.
Someone should do a study!