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Edited selections from Sherana Sheep Report No 11

“Green Sheep in the Brave New World”

May 2008.

1. The Big Diversion
People have been sending emails and phoning to ask Mother of All Things “Why have the sheep newsletters
stopped -have you sacked that useless Rouseabout?” Nope, he is still here -just easily diverted.

And what a diversion.

Rouseabout was foolish enough to look into the global warming arguments and has been indignant ever
since. “Those fools say that carbon dioxide, the rare but crucial natural atmospheric gas that sustains all life,
is a pollutant that is going to cause the world to fry. Worse still, they want us to stop using carbon fuels
(wood, coal, oil, gas and candles) and eliminate our farting and belching friends, sheep and cattle.”

Forecasts of climate change are about to go seriously out of kilter.

One of the world's top climate modellers said Thursday we could be about to enter "one or even two decades during which temperatures cool. "People will say this is global warming disappearing," Latif told more than 1500 of the world's top climate scientists gathering in Geneva at the UN's World Climate Conference.

A new global warming magazine has launched online. The good news is that
it’s free. The better news is that each month it will pull together a
selection of key news updates and blog postings, so you don’t miss
important developments in the debate.

11 September 2009 

Wall Street Journal rebukes New Zealand on its climate variation response  

A Wall Street Journal opinion piece has delivered a stinging rebuke of New Zealand's climate variation response, describing as 'lunacy', the Government's wish to drive down living standards in order to protect the country's perceived image abroad.

"For far too long New Zealand has delivered a policy response built upon what we think others think of us, as opposed to what they actually do think of us," says Don Nicolson, Federated Farmers President.

I am sceptical about the Kyoto Protocol and its accompanying fears of climate change.
   Why am I so  sceptical of the climate change fundamentalism?
    It goes back to the 1960s when I  came across a book on an early European explorer-missionary William Colenso.

He crossed the Ruahine Ranges from Hawkes Bay to preach in the Taihape area. Extracts from his diary showed there were dead trees, stream beds choked with shingle and tree trunks and large land slips.  But somehow Colenso's graphic descriptions gathered dust.