Tuesday 17th August

SolBrew finally delivered a load of spent mash yesterday, which we started incorporating into a new heap today. I’m sure the guys at work consider me as just another crazy palangi, I was digging into the first heap, pulling out handfuls of the mix near the centre and smelling it, squeezing it. It smells good, no ammonia smell left, and believe me, the heap is HOT.
We built a heap using part of the existing big heap, split the first heap into a smaller width, moved the sawdust around to start another one with the brewery waste, got rained on, very heavily for a bit, and finished the day with 3 heaps all tidy and quietly doing whatever compost heaps do after hours.

The Brewery waste is really wet, which is good. Hopefully it will saturate the sawdust and keep the bacteria active until they have broken down the lignin in the dust. The smell from it reminded me of going to Otara Intermediate, which must be the only school I know that was placed behind a major brewery. The waste from DB Breweries was heaped up on the school boundary, which was great over winter, you could get through the fence and stand with bare feet into the heaps and stay warm when there was frost all over the ground. Then get your hands warmed with the strap when you got caught, but that’s a different story.

We’ve got 3 heaps now, one with mainly chicken manure and sawdust, one with chicken manure, sawdust, brewery waste and shredded branches and leaves, and one with only brewery waste and sawdust. I’ll keep watch and work out which will be the best for us to continue using. I think we’ll need chicken manure for all the heaps though, it supplies the most nitrogen to boost the decomposition to start, and has sufficient other nutrients to help.

Still, even if we use the brewery waste as an initial starter heap to get the sawdust breaking down, it becomes such a fine light material to shift, adding manure to it later on when we get enough isn’t that much of a hardship. And as I found out today, the SolBrew driver has just been dumping the waste at the tip if no one has ordered it, so from now on it looks like we’ll have a steady supply. About 6 truckloads a week, added to the 2 truckloads a week of sawdust, whatever wood chip we can get from pruning, and our usual supply of manure. Finally getting a system going at last.

I see NIWA in New Zealand are finally being taken to Court for fiddling the climate data records. And about bloody time. The whole ETS scheme was based on their shonky adjusted figures, which if you take the adjustments out and just use the plain as written records, show negligible warming for the past 100 years. As if 0.5*C is going to do a lot of damage over a 100 years. The temperature changes more than that between sunrise and sunset every day, well maybe not at the moment with the weather there now.

And their justification for adjustments is based on a 30 year old thesis lodged in Victoria University by J Salinger, who went on to coach Phil Jones in adjustments at EAU CRU, then returned to run NIWA. And which no one at NIWA knows how it came to be used. Hello? Salinger wrote it as a student, he’s now in charge, (or was till he finally tried doing a Jim Hansen and got fired). As if that isn’t enough to start ringing alarm bells somewhere.

And the glaciers (Franz Josef, Fox) are growing again, which means it must have been cold enough the last few years to increase the snowfall at the head of the glaciers.

Only one word for the whole sorry deluded bloody Malthusian left wing Marxist inspired lentil munching control freaks. IDIOTS.

Ok, another word, LUDDITES! Although that fails to capture the true depth of ignorance and idiocy being displayed. And the Luddites were actually concerned about their jobs, and livelihoods, not some ephemeral feel good fuzzy conception of Mother Gaia needing saving from the nasty anthropoids that have ruined Eden, where all the little birds went chirp chirp, and baby seals weren’t eaten by big white polar bears who had run out of ice.

Follow the cycles you idiots, the weather repeats every 60 years, cold 30, hot 30, cold 30 etc.

If anyone has shares in some of the more southern vineyards or dairy farms in the South Island, I’d be selling them real soon, and swapping to shares in coal mines. A couple of good winters with no power and blackouts like Britain is about to have will stop all the stupidity with wind farms and get another couple of coal fired stations up and running.

And John Key deletes any references to ETS on his facebook page as well. Considering he argued against Kyoto and all the rest since while he was in opposition, now he’s all for it? More like all for the extra tax grab is more like it.

And trying to say we had to do it or other countries won’t buy our produce? Like which countries? The USA? Almost bankrupt. Britain? Bankrupt. Australia? Considering the drumming Rudd got over his version of an ETS, I’d say Australia would welcome food from anywhere. Which still leaves Russia, China, India, Asia, all of which have decided they want no part of the western suicidal rush to oblivion over a trace gas. And strangely enough, have got money coming out the ears and just dying to spend it.

I blame that Nanny control freak Helen Clark, for all of it, after she got into bed with the Greens just to stay in power. I can’t understand why John Key is too gutless to tell the 5% party, (Greens) to just put up or shut up. Another politician who just wants to stay in power, forget the principles he was elected under. And considering the greens are only in Parliament because of MMP voting, they never got a electorate member voted in, which shows they can’t even convince enough people in one area to vote for them. 5% of the voting population gets them in, I’m almost in favour of going back to FFP voting just to get rid of them. Well, until they recover their senses and start pushing ecology based policies again, not CAGW rubbish.

Ok, that’s my rant for the night. If I don’t stop now I’ll still be going in the morning.

Wattsupwiththat has a good few articles about NIWA, and a whole range of other CAGW stuff. http://www.wattsupwiththat.com/ well worth reading, if you’re a lentil munching Malthusian Marxist control freak that wears socks and sandals and wants to return everyone to the dark ages, maybe not a good read, but you can’t please everyone.