Submitted by climaterealists on Thu, 26/08/2010 - 19:54
To: jonathan.coleman@national.org.nz
Subject: ETS SCHEME
Unfortunately National decided to push ahead with its ill conceived adoption of an ETS regime.
If it is still in place by the next election my vote, both party and individual, will be going to ACT. I will also do my best to encourage as many voters away from National as possible.
I had hopes that National would have proved to be a party of thinkers capable of making the types of decisions that would see New Zealand move forward economically.
Sadly they have done nothing since taking office to confirm my hopes. One tax reduction taken away by
ETS,
ACC levies
GST increases
Hopefully John Key can be persuaded that he does not need to sell us down the drain over the Foreshore and Seabed to gain Maori Party support. I very much fear I am about to be disappointed yet again.
Roll on election year.
Submitted by climaterealists on Wed, 25/08/2010 - 10:01
These letters are available in a scanned form- click here to read.
Submitted by climaterealists on Wed, 25/08/2010 - 09:35
Bryan Leyland
22 August 2010
The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition has asked the High Court to rule on the validity of NIWA's "Seven Station" New Zealand Temperature Record (NZTR) that features prominently on its website and is used in information it passes on to schools and is also used to support the emission trading scheme, resource consent applications for wind farms and many other key aspects of policies designed to “fight climate change”. If this action succeeds, NIWA will be obliged to withdraw the Seven Station series and all the advice that they had given based on it. They will also be required to produce a new NZTR, which is both transparent and independently peer reviewed.
Submitted by climaterealists on Wed, 25/08/2010 - 09:31
Muriel Newman's NZCPR.com site is well worth a visit.
The New Zealand Centre for Political Research is an independent public policy Think Tank that promotes freedom, liberty and limited government through research, publications and open public debate. It was established by former MP Dr Muriel Newman in 2005. The NZCPR neither seeks nor accepts government funding, relying instead on voluntary contributions from supporters who share the view that sound market-orientated public policies are vital to building a successful and prosperous society.
Free weekly newsletters are available- a sample of which is below:
23 August 2010
When a new supermarket in Mt Roskill recently advertised for new staff over 2,700 people applied for the 150 positions. This desperate situation is being replicated up and down the country. It is symptomatic of an economy in trouble.
Submitted by climaterealists on Wed, 25/08/2010 - 09:26
Dear Dr Smith,
Since my letter of 25 Jan much has been revealed in respect of the false claims, shoddy science corruption of data, and outright deceptions contained in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.
Professor Phil Jones, the lead UK scientist for IPCC has resigned and admitted:
“There has been no global warming since 1995.”
“Warming periods have happened before - but NOT due to man-made changes.”
Let me list a very brief summary of just a few of the failings of the IPCC report.
Submitted by climaterealists on Wed, 25/08/2010 - 09:15
To read the letter from John S to Prime Minister John Key click here.
To read Nick Smith's response click here.
Submitted by climaterealists on Wed, 25/08/2010 - 09:05
After the June 22 anti-ETS protest at Parliament, the North King Country Farmer of July 13th 2010 ran an article about the Climate Realists Network.
Click here to view
Submitted by climaterealists on Wed, 25/08/2010 - 08:58
How Wikipedia’s green doctor rewrote 5,428 climate articles
By Lawrence Solomon
T
he Climategate Emails describe how a small band of climatologists cooked the books to make the last century seem dangerously warm.
The emails also describe how the band plotted to rewrite history as well as science, particularly by eliminating the Medieval Warm Period, a 400 year period that began around 1000 AD.
The Climategate Emails reveal something else, too: the enlistment of the most widely read source of information in the world — Wikipedia — in the wholesale rewriting of this history.
The Medieval Warm Period, which followed the meanness and cold of the Dark Ages, was a great time in human history — it allowed humans around the world to bask in a glorious warmth that vastly improved agriculture, increased life spans and otherwise bettered the human condition.
Submitted by climaterealists on Tue, 24/08/2010 - 14:39
Letter to the Editor.
What year is it? 2010. No it must be 1984 and H.G.Wells must be laughing in his grave since NZ has recently established The Ministry of MisInformation!!
Submitted by climaterealists on Tue, 24/08/2010 - 14:38
By Stuart Biggs - Aug 19, 2010
New Zealand’s sheep farmers are flocking to a government carbon trading program that pays more to plant trees than sell wool and mutton.
The system, begun in 2008 and the only one of its kind outside Europe, awards farmers credits that are sold to offset greenhouse gas emissions. The project may earn them about NZ$600 a hectare ($172 per acre) a year on land unprofitable for grazing animals, said David Evison, a senior lecturer at the University of Canterbury’s New Zealand School of Forestry.
Forests planted for carbon credits may increase to 30,000 hectares a year compared with 3,500 hectares in 2009, the government estimates. The system is a welcome alternative for sheep farmers who’ve struggled for decades from a combination of slumping wool prices, drought and competition for land from the dairy and lumber industries, says Neil Walker, a forester in the Taranaki region of New Zealand’s North Island.
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