Co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale discuss the week’s news with Cathrine Dyer on climate and politics, plus special guests Vic Crockford on housing and Dr Gary Payinda on the health crisis
Thanks as always for this excellent round up on climate. At the MfE webinar on the ERP consultation specifically around waste, it was revealed that the ongoing assumption that landfill methane gas capture systems were 68% efficient had little evidential basis, and that a rate of 20% efficiency was recommended pending further data collection from landfills (provided of course on a voluntary basis). This will significantly increase waste's contribution to gross emissions. It also shows the insanity of diverting waste levy funds (which had been specifically earmarked in the WMA legislation) towards things other than waste minimisation - changes pushed through under urgency about six weeks ago late on a Friday afternoon. The fund will now be available for cleaning up legacy sites, including those that have nothing to do with waste, e.g. drilling sites etc.
A brilliant Kākā this week team, even by your high, engaging standards. All the guests were great by the way but my word, Dr Payinda was absolutely brilliant. And the answers to all of his final questions are Yes, Yes and all of them. It is worth noting that the attempted to destruction of the NHS is one of the things that really nailed the coffin shut on 15 years of ghastly Tory rule. Tremendous episode!
Wow - could you make Gary’s commentary about the healthcare system available to non-subscribers? His comments - including the questions about a ‘run-in-into-the-ground’ then privatise agenda - need to be heard more widely. Personally, I think it’s highly likely that agenda exists. And not just with healthcare. Thanks for a great guest line-up and discussion (as usual)!!
Oh, and good on you for calling out the overt, retrograde racism of ACT and the all-too-silent National Party. Never was calling out the lies and obfuscations so important. Keep it up!
Viv on the subject of housing in general lifted a weight from my shoulders when she insisted that many sectors of society were needed to deal with housing needs state, community and private. She relieved me of the discovery related to the Cook Strait rail or not ferries. Someone somewhere commented that it had been pressure from Transport Nelson and Newman’s passenger services that was responsible for the Nelson railway being closed in 1955 and ripped up. My dad was for years a Transport Nelson and sometimes Newman’s employee.
A rail would have been good for some purposes but couldn’t serve all the twisty hilly landscape making up so much of the Nelson Tasman area.
I think when advocating for rail as I do, we’d have much better results if we looked at the wider reality of services needed for the hilly landscape and spread out population of this country.
Love the Hoon always. I just wanted to mention re Cathrine's description of the study where wetland incr in temp caused more methane release, which causes further temp rise. I think she described it as 'negative feedback'. This is in science terms 'positive feedback' where incr in a variable causes further incr in that variable. Homeostatic systems usually involve 'negative feedback' eg human body temp rise over a certain point such as on a hot day causes the body to respond to cause a drop in temp by sweating etc. and thus keep the temp in a specific narrow range.
Kia ora,
Thanks as always for this excellent round up on climate. At the MfE webinar on the ERP consultation specifically around waste, it was revealed that the ongoing assumption that landfill methane gas capture systems were 68% efficient had little evidential basis, and that a rate of 20% efficiency was recommended pending further data collection from landfills (provided of course on a voluntary basis). This will significantly increase waste's contribution to gross emissions. It also shows the insanity of diverting waste levy funds (which had been specifically earmarked in the WMA legislation) towards things other than waste minimisation - changes pushed through under urgency about six weeks ago late on a Friday afternoon. The fund will now be available for cleaning up legacy sites, including those that have nothing to do with waste, e.g. drilling sites etc.
Great point Val.
A brilliant Kākā this week team, even by your high, engaging standards. All the guests were great by the way but my word, Dr Payinda was absolutely brilliant. And the answers to all of his final questions are Yes, Yes and all of them. It is worth noting that the attempted to destruction of the NHS is one of the things that really nailed the coffin shut on 15 years of ghastly Tory rule. Tremendous episode!
Thanks Simon. It was a cracker. Saving it for the awards season submission shortlist.
Wow - could you make Gary’s commentary about the healthcare system available to non-subscribers? His comments - including the questions about a ‘run-in-into-the-ground’ then privatise agenda - need to be heard more widely. Personally, I think it’s highly likely that agenda exists. And not just with healthcare. Thanks for a great guest line-up and discussion (as usual)!!
Thanks Niki. Everyone can listen to and share the recorded version. This one is fully open to the public. cheers
Oh, and good on you for calling out the overt, retrograde racism of ACT and the all-too-silent National Party. Never was calling out the lies and obfuscations so important. Keep it up!
Great Hoon as always thanks everyone.
Viv on the subject of housing in general lifted a weight from my shoulders when she insisted that many sectors of society were needed to deal with housing needs state, community and private. She relieved me of the discovery related to the Cook Strait rail or not ferries. Someone somewhere commented that it had been pressure from Transport Nelson and Newman’s passenger services that was responsible for the Nelson railway being closed in 1955 and ripped up. My dad was for years a Transport Nelson and sometimes Newman’s employee.
A rail would have been good for some purposes but couldn’t serve all the twisty hilly landscape making up so much of the Nelson Tasman area.
I think when advocating for rail as I do, we’d have much better results if we looked at the wider reality of services needed for the hilly landscape and spread out population of this country.
Love the Hoon always. I just wanted to mention re Cathrine's description of the study where wetland incr in temp caused more methane release, which causes further temp rise. I think she described it as 'negative feedback'. This is in science terms 'positive feedback' where incr in a variable causes further incr in that variable. Homeostatic systems usually involve 'negative feedback' eg human body temp rise over a certain point such as on a hot day causes the body to respond to cause a drop in temp by sweating etc. and thus keep the temp in a specific narrow range.
Absolutely right! Brain misfire on my part!
It happens, and that makes sense as you are so knowledgeable. Thank you for all you contribute. The hoon is magic.
I've listened to this in parts over the weekend and thoughts are:
1) what a banger of an episode - and I love the recent (unintentional?) tendency towards gender balance,
2) for positive intersectional ethnicity, look no further than Teanau Tuiono - all Māori, all Pasifika, no need for blood quantum, and
3) the lack of investigative journalism in NZ plummets even further during the Olympics.
Have a fab week, everyone!