Submitted by climaterealists on Fri, 25/06/2010 - 20:47
The Foundry 22 June 2010
New evidence on the melting Pine Island Glacier (PIG), one of the melting Antarctic glaciers that some scientists feel may pose a threat to sea level increases, suggests that it is not climate change that is causing the glacier to melt. From the UK’s Register:
“Many scientists have theorised that the PIG’s accelerating flow is due to global warming. However, recent research – including surveys beneath the bottom of the floating, projecting ice sheet by Blighty’s Autosub robot probe – indicate that this may not be the case.
“The discovery of the ridge has raised new questions about whether the current loss of ice from Pine Island Glacier is caused by recent climate change or is a continuation of a longer-term process that began when the glacier disconnected from the ridge,” says Dr Adrian Jenkins of the British Antarctic Survey.”
The climate experts even suggest that melting ice has beneficial impacts on the freshness of the ocean. While the new findings do not suggest melting glaciers pose no threat to sea level increases, it does show how little we really know about the causes behind melting glaciers.
Submitted by climaterealists on Fri, 25/06/2010 - 20:46
John Boscawen MP, ACT New Zealand
Press Release
Tuesday, June 22 2010.
Submitted by climaterealists on Fri, 25/06/2010 - 20:45
John Boscawen MP, ACT New Zealand
Media Advisory
Tuesday, June 22 2010.
Submitted by climaterealists on Fri, 25/06/2010 - 20:42
Why the Emissions scheme is not justified!
From a farmer’s perspective
Dear Sir
I must put the farming community’s perspective forward in reply to Chester Borrows article in the “South Taranaki Star” Thursday 17 June.
The present Government doesn’t value farming to the extent when one compares new money going into Cycle ways, Rugby World Cup, Ring roads around Auckland and Tourism, The investments in farming is peanuts. Chester speaks of massive amounts of money going into research technology but zilch into agriculture. I hear of research into clover production/ manipulation that will not be commercially available to farming until 2020. That is far too far into the future. I have heard speakers from Ag-research talking of the various strategies of reducing farming emissions. To date none have been viable and the outlook looks like there are no alternatives; watch this space!
Trade responsibility is spoken of as the reason why we are going to have an ETS; but Chester, if you want us to believe this, you had better come up with some meaningful long term contracts to provide indisputable evidence that this is the case. In other words put your money where your mouth is!
All farmers want from the Government is the animal emissions removed from the offending legislation. Horses and the horse racing industry are not included in animal emissions, or is this because there are many politicians involved in the racing industry?
Submitted by climaterealists on Fri, 25/06/2010 - 20:33
John Boscawen MP, ACT New Zealand
Press Release
Thursday, June 17 2010.
Submitted by climaterealists on Fri, 25/06/2010 - 20:25
Otago Daily Times 17 June 2010
Cracks began to appear in the Government's traditional rural support base over the introduction of the emissions trading scheme (ETS) as farmers took to the streets in Balclutha yesterday and a National Party branch chairman threatened to resign.
The ETS comes into effect in two weeks.
Seventeen farmers took part in the protest on the main street.
Organiser Rick Cameron said the ETS was a very serious issue that affects all New Zealanders, not just farmers.
"They [politicians] are saying other countries won't take our products - that is unfounded.
"The ETS is based on politics, not on facts," he said.
Mr Cameron runs 4500 sheep on a farm at Lovells Flat, and said all the ETS was doing was reducing his profit.
Deputy Prime Minister Bill English's National Party Balclutha branch chairman, David Botting, was unable to take part in the protest when he was hospitalised after cutting his arm on a circular saw constructing a protest sign.
Submitted by climaterealists on Fri, 25/06/2010 - 20:21
16 June 2010
To those who have recently subscribed to my ETS Campaign newsletter - Welcome!
I have just completed another series of Public Meetings around New Zealand, and this brings the number of meetings I have held to 37. That is 37 groups of New Zealanders from Whangarei to Invercargill, from all walks of life, united in their opposition to this punishing new tax. And that is just the tip of the iceberg. Every day myself and my staff receive numerous phone calls and emails of support for ACT's campaign. Public Meetings are very successful in raising awareness of the ETS and concerns have been heightened by the recent announcements of price increases by Mercury Energy and Contact Energy.
In less than one month, the Government is going to usher in the most comprehensive emissions trading scheme in the world. We’re going to expose our famers and exporters to costs that none of our major trading partners incur. We’re going to lead the world on climate change, we will lead the world with our Emissions Trading Scheme, despite the fact that the National Party promised that we wouldn’t be world leaders, but fast followers.
Submitted by climaterealists on Fri, 25/06/2010 - 20:20
John Boscawen MP, ACT New Zealand
Speech to Parliament as part of Budget Debate, Tuesday, June 15 2010.
Submitted by climaterealists on Fri, 25/06/2010 - 20:18
Prince Charles' opinions of science and the environment (WT 15/06/10) demonstrate clearly why high profile people such as himself need to stick to their roles and stay out of matters which they know little about.
It seems that sixty odd years of having a silver spoon in his mouth have left him so far out of touch with reality that his comments are little more than comical. Were it not for Galileo and pioneering scientists like him, we would all still be living in caves.
Submitted by climaterealists on Fri, 25/06/2010 - 20:17
National Post
Lawrence Solomon 13 June 2010
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change misled the press and public into believing that thousands of scientists backed its claims on manmade global warming, according to Mike Hulme, a prominent climate scientist and IPCC insider. The actual number of scientists who backed that claim was “only a few dozen experts,” he states in a paper for Progress in Physical Geography, co-authored with student Martin Mahony.
“Claims such as ‘2,500 of the world’s leading scientists have reached a consensus that human activities are having a significant influence on the climate’ are disingenuous,” the paper states unambiguously, adding that they rendered “the IPCC vulnerable to outside criticism.”
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