Submitted by climaterealists on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 16:15
Richard Treadgold- Climate Conversation Group
http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/
The government's Chief Science Advisor (CSA), Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, treats climate questioners as "deniers." Such tactics are the antithesis of science and deserve the firmest reproach.
Submitted by climaterealists on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 16:12
"Since when was carbon dioxide a “pollutant”? Carbon dioxide is what makes things grow. Pollutants are things that we would be better off without. If we removed all the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, all life on the surface of the Earth would die very rapidly. In the days of the dinosaurs, carbon dioxide levels were much higher than they are today. Coral reefs thrived and all the plants grew like mad. Which is why we have lots of coal to mine.
The “evidence” that man-made carbon dioxide causes dangerous global warming exists only in computer models which, in fact, are programmed to predict warming with increased carbon dioxide. So it is not the computer models that predict warming, it is the person who programmed them. Without the “forcing factors” they program into the computers, a doubling of carbon dioxide causes only a small warming.
Submitted by climaterealists on Mon, 26/07/2010 - 20:43
NZ Herald
By Karen Arnold
There were fears for the safety of Climate Change Minister Nick Smith last night as he faced a barrage of abuse from mainly irate Southland farmers at a meeting to discuss the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
More than 300 people from across Clutha and Southland packed the Gore venue, where it was obvious even before the meeting began that opposition to the scheme was strong.
Farmer and businessman Richard King took the chance to have his say face-to-face with the minister before the start. Following a heated exchange, Mr King told nzherald.co.nz he had been a National Party member for more than 40 years. "I'm here to say 'to hell with it'."
Submitted by climaterealists on Mon, 26/07/2010 - 20:35
JULY 8th 2010
THE PERVERSION OF SCIENCE
The "Independent" enquiry into the Climategate Enmails has now been published. There is a link to the report at
Submitted by climaterealists on Mon, 26/07/2010 - 20:29
This is not directly in response to Climate Change – but could apply equally as well
Pessimists
Friday, 02 July 2010 08:57 Matt Ridley
When I was a student, in the 1970s, the world was coming to an end. The adults told me so. They said the population explosion was unstoppable, mass famine was imminent, a cancer epidemic caused by chemicals in the environment was beginning, the Sahara desert was advancing by a mile a year, the ice age was retuning, oil was running out, air pollution was choking us and nuclear winter would finish us off. There did not seem to be much point in planning for the future. I remember a fantasy I had - that I would make my way to the Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland, and live off the land so I could survive these holocausts at least till the cancer got me.
Submitted by climaterealists on Tue, 13/07/2010 - 17:13
Mr. J Key,
Prime Minister
Dear Sir,
As an older New Zealander and a tax payer of many years, I am most unhappy that you are instituting a new tax to take more money off New Zealanders.
The reason you are instituting this tax is unclear, as is what the money will be used for. Just what are you going to do with the revenue collected?
Submitted by climaterealists on Tue, 13/07/2010 - 17:05
Dear Editor,
If the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is such a great idea then why is National giving Maori interests $25 million in credits to vote it into law?
Sincerely,
Neil Harrap
Submitted by climaterealists on Tue, 13/07/2010 - 17:03
CIS Digest 9 July 2010
by Luke Malpass
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has indicated her desire for Australia to price carbon by 2012. Lucky for her she now has a policy guinea pig, as New Zealand enacted an emissions trading scheme on 1 July.
Not that New Zealand needed to stress too much – accounting for only 0.2% of total global emissions. Even New Zealand’s Environment Minister Nick Smith conceded that an ETS would do nothing at all to help combat climate change, but he argued that it was necessary to enhance the country’s clean, green reputation. Was this really a good enough reason certain economic pain for little environmental gain?
Submitted by climaterealists on Fri, 09/07/2010 - 20:51
- special report by Tony Orman
Nick Smith has told Marlborough people to not vote National in next year's election, if they are opposed to the National-led government's Emissions Trading Scheme.
After an address he was answering questions from the gathering of 150 when he made the statement three or four times. It probably did not dawn on the Climate Change Minister that Colin King, the National MP for Kaikoura, which takes in Marlborough was there chairing the meeting.
The meeting was one of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) road show meetings.
Smith told the audience if any voters are opposed to the Emissions Trading Scheme, then don't vote National next year."
Several from the audience challenged the lack of democracy in government charging ahead with the ETS.
Submitted by climaterealists on Fri, 09/07/2010 - 20:39
Pastural Farming Climate Research newsletter- Robin Grieve
I don’t want to pick on John Armstrong but the flaws in his argument keep getting bigger and bigger.
In justifying National’s ETS he said
It firmly believes something had to be done to safeguard the country’s export trade - or New Zealand would otherwise face mounting consumer resistance to goods transported from afar.
Farmers - amazingly - have seemed to be blinkered to this danger to their livelihoods.
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