Twitterings: NZ Green Party Hits Peak Crazy on Climate Change & Transmission Gully.

With few routes out of our capital city, Wellington, it is sea-bound on its south-side, and to the north connected in one part by the exposed, winding Rimutaka Hill Road along State Highway 2, and the (major) second part by a narrow coastal highway which is easily cut off, such as it was on Thursday morning by heavy rain and landslide. But don’t panic, the Green Party, which is against building an alternate way north along Transmission Gully, in an extraordinary claim given the woeful state of political climate change measures world-wide, or any measurable success thereof, as part of its climate change policy is going to stop the rain … New Zealand Green MP Julie Anne Genter has just reached Peak Crazy:

To the thousands stuck in traffic on the Kapiti Coast, please remember that the Greens are against Transmission Gully!

— David Farrar (@dpfdpf) May 13, 2015

@dpfdpf bc we prefer to spend $bs on projects that will improve many more commutes every day, not 0.2% of car trips a few days a year.

— Julie Anne Genter (@JulieAnneGenter) May 13, 2015

To all those stranded due to extreme weather, the Greens are for action on climate change so we don't get a whole lot more of this.@dpfdpf

— Julie Anne Genter (@JulieAnneGenter) May 13, 2015

@JulieAnneGenter You've reached Peak Crazy with that tweet :) @dpfdpf

— Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) May 13, 2015

Genter went on to clarify herself somewhat:

@GuySmiley11 I said we don't want much more flooding like this. climate change = more frequent & intense storms, flooding, etc

— Julie Anne Genter (@JulieAnneGenter) May 14, 2015

This tweet then summed up the appropriate response:

@JulieAnneGenter @dpfdpf There is no link that the current weather is directly because of climate change. Please respect SCIENCE

— Guy Smiley (@GuySmiley11) May 14, 2015

I’ve written my views on climate change in the first one quarter of my Literary Ramble IV, including the nonsense being claimed by politicians who are using this issue to scaremonger. I have also written how I hate the silencing machine employed by the climate change camp. Plus in relation to Genter's comments, I guess we ignore the major destructive flooding in this area in 1840, 1858, 1976, 1998, 2002, 2003 and 2004.

Worse, what a Green policy against Transmission Gully doesn’t encompass is that a greater danger from no such route is that this largely dooms Wellington, sitting atop a major faultline, to being a tomb when the next 'big one' hits. A good size earthquake will see the narrow coast road closed for months by landslides, and in at least one reckoning, Wellington city isolated from the country – other than by barge – for up to three months. Do the Green Party believe that their climate change policies are going to stop earthquakes too?

Anyway, so here’s Snow in Africa with ‘We Can’t Stop the Rain’:

And thinking of our farmers fretting for their livelihoods in the drought areas of North Canterbury, James Morrison with ‘Please DON’T Stop the Rain’: