When did snow last fall in the Kaikohe area of New Zealand ?

This article from the Northern Advocate can not say – amazing

I have never heard of snow that far north in NZ – what can readers recall or find in archives?
The NZ herald reported in August 2011 – Snow falls in Auckland for first time in decades – I commented at the time.

ABC News “explains” Shenhua’s Watermark coal mine in the Liverpool Plains in NSW – spot the omissions

Just saw this – I am staggered that professional journalists can put out an article with such yawning gaps.
Hoping readers will spell out the facts about Shenhua’s Watermark coal mine that the ABC could not find.

Great cartoon – from MichaelSmithNews.com

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China stocks crash – what is so hard to understand?

Watching media about the crash in Chinese stock exchange prices we seldom see chart data putting in perspective the reality of the rapid spike in prices since early 2015.

Why would not the Shanghai index fall so as to substantially remove this rapid price spike? Loud alarm bells should have rung in Govt by early 2015.

ABC hits historic new low in bad taste reporting on Australian Prime Minister

Can anybody recall media quite as crazed as this ?

On top of years of ABC – Fairfax media – GreenLabor politicians constantly blabbering about every move made by Prime Minister Abbott.
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Two examples of left-wing math

There has been a poll in Canberra to test public opinion for a GreenLabor Govt proposed light rail or tram project connecting the centre of Canberra to the northern suburbs of Gungahlin.
A few days later this article – Light rail poll: What do the numbers really say? – simply removed the Liberal voters from the poll numbers and came up with support for Govt light rail. For US readers Liberals in Australia tend to be right of centre.
OK – that is the first example of left-wing math – not keen on a result? – just throw away part of the data rinse & repeat.
The second example of left wing maths was exposed on the ABC Q&A TV show where a panel stacked with lefties answers questions from a live audience also stacked from the left. One of the aims of the show is to attack the lone conservative panelist. In the show Monday 29 June 2015 just before the 39minute mark in the transcript Lawrence Krauss refers to a poll in the US showing that more people are killed by “right wing extremists” than by Jihadists. But of course that result is only obtained by using data after 9/11. Love those left wing maths and remember the demand for global warming/climate change policy changes are driven by the left.

Marshall Islands foreign minister Tony de Brum claims “…yet another cyclone. Climate change has arrived,” he tweeted.

The ABC reports – Chaotic unseasonal storms strike Marshall Islands and Guam as eight systems threaten western Pacific
I am too busy to attempt to dig out data on this – make sure you include the word cyclone in any comment and I can rescue same if it gets caught in the spam queue. Same goes for earlier Raquel post. Not sure where the eight systems are.

Brave pilot has Solar Impulse aircraft only 700km from Hawaii

Nearly four and a half days out of Nagoya – fascinating marriage of Solar PV and aeronautical technology. If you click on the Flight button top right you get the distance to Hawaii. They had to wait four weeks in Nagoya to get ideal weather conditions for the very long leg to Hawaii.