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Hon Rodney Hide, ACT Leader, Budget Speech 2010

Submitted by climaterealists on Sun, 23/05/2010 - 21:37

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E.T.S Will Cancel Benefit of Budget to Families

Submitted by climaterealists on Sun, 23/05/2010 - 21:36

Family First Media Release

20 May 2010

Family First NZ says that Emissions Trading Scheme will cancel out most of the benefit to families of the tax cuts announced in the Budget today.

 

“While the tax benefits of this budget won’t kick in for families until October, the costs of the ETS will start to bite the budget of families in July,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ.

 

“The $25 per week average increase given to families will soon be swallowed up by the increased costs in energy and petrol and the flow-on effects on the cost of transportation and production costs which will increase retail prices including basic food requirements. These are all eventually passed on to families.”

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To John Key and Nick Smith from Donald O 20 May 2010

Submitted by climaterealists on Sun, 23/05/2010 - 21:35

An Open letter to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Climate Change, Nick Smith.

 
Gentlemen,
 
As concerned citizens, tax payers and voters, we do not understand why you are pressing ahead with the extension of the ETS on 1 July, when the effects on climate will be nil and the effects on every citizen will be substantially increased taxation.
 
We would invite you to answer the following questions please.
 
  • What are we getting in return for a tax on energy of 5-10%?
  • How will a four cent rise in petrol on 1 July and another four cent in 2013 save the world?
  • What do you think the effect of this ETS tax will have on global temperatures?
  • What do you think the effect of our ETS will have on global climate?
  • If climate change is driven by man-made CO2, what caused the Medieval Warm Period or the Little Ice Age, as there was no man-made CO2?
  • Mr Prime Minister, you said you would not lead the charge but would be a ‘fast follower’. Australia has postponed any decision on their ETS bill until 2013 and it also seems that a US cap-and-trade bill is far from certain. As we are the only country implementing an economy wide ETS, who are we following?
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What Alarming Sea Level Rise? Observational Data Reveals No Change, Scientist Says

Submitted by climaterealists on Sun, 23/05/2010 - 21:32

Fox News.com 19 May 2010

by Gene J. Koprowski

CHICAGO -- Global warming advocates say rising sea levels will soon drown Venice. But a top scientist says they're full of hot air -- and he says he’s got the data to prove it.

In a new scientific paper, Nils-Axel Morner, former emeritus head of the paleogeophysics and geodynamics department at Stockholm University in Sweden, says that observational records from around the world -- locations like the Maldives, Bangladesh, India, Tuvalu and Vanuatu -- show the sea level isn't rising at all.

Morner's research, revealed Monday at the fourth International Conference on Climate Change, demonstrates that there is no “alarming sea level rise” across the globe, and it says a U.N. report warning of coastal cities being deluged by rising waters from melting polar ice caps “is utterly wrong.”

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National’s ETS Forestry Excuses Not Acceptable

Submitted by climaterealists on Sun, 23/05/2010 - 21:30
John Boscawen MP, ACT New Zealand
Press Release Wednesday, May 19 2010.

 

The Minister for Climate Change Issues Dr Nick Smith is running out of excuses for continuing with the Government’s ETS programme says ACT New Zealand Climate Change Spokesman John Boscawen.

"Dr Smith is defending the decision to proceed with the ETS on 1 July on the grounds that suspending it now would break commitments to foresters.  The rationale for continuing with the ETS gets thinner by the day," Mr Boscawen said.

"Dr Smith appears to not understand the points ACT Leader Rodney Hide made in his open letter to the Prime Minister on 29 April 2010:

• If the ETS is suspended, forest owners would be perfectly free to sell carbon credits to willing buyers, for example, parties subject to the EU ETS.

• Suspension for a short period - say to when Australia takes post-2012 action, if it does - would not be material for foresters as most operate on a 30-years plus rotation.

• The major taking of property rights occurred with pre-1990 forests.

• None of the planting in the 1990s, and little before 2005 was done with an expectation of subsidies.

• Planting in recent years has fallen away.  Much of it has been encouraged by afforestation grants, not the ETS.

• Foresters – especially integrated wood processors – will benefit from lower input costs for electricity and fuel if the ETS is suspended.

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ETS will cost Kiwis $527 million + in its first year

Submitted by climaterealists on Sun, 23/05/2010 - 21:29

19 April 2010

 
Federated Farmers has calculated the Emissions Trading Scheme will directly cost New Zealand businesses and families $527 million in its first year.  Indirect cost impacts will likely add tens of millions more.
 
“Government seems to be ignoring warning signs every bit as real as the warnings of icebergs, Captain Smith received during the Titanic’s ill-fated maiden voyage,” says Don Nicolson, Federated Farmers President speaking from Adelaide.
 
“Federated Farmers estimates the ETS, in its first year, will directly add $527 million to the cost of fuel and electricity.  That adds over half a billion dollars more for doing business here than across the Tasman.  It makes a mockery of the ETS’ supposed harmonisation with Australia.
 
“That $527 million figure doesn’t count the cascade effect these fuel and electricity increases will have on the billions worth of goods and services all Kiwis, not just farmers, consume. 
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Computer Models, Climate Forecasts & other Dice Games

Submitted by climaterealists on Sun, 23/05/2010 - 21:21

19 May 2010

The Carbon Sense Coalition today called for an investigation into the IPCC/CSIRO computer models relied on for the scare forecasts of drought, floods and rising sea levels.

 
The Chairman of “Carbon Sense”, Mr Viv Forbes, challenged the IPCC claims that their computer forecasts have a 90% probability of being correct.
 
“The World Bank computers did not forecast the Global Financial Crisis.
 
“The British Met computers failed to forecast Europe’s frigid winter.
 
“Computers were unable to forecast the spread of swine flu or volcanic ash clouds.
 
“Since the introduction of its new computer program Queensland Health has been unable to pay their own employees properly.
 
“And the Australian Weather Bureau cannot forecast next month’s weather.
 
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To John Key from David D 18 May 2010

Submitted by climaterealists on Sun, 23/05/2010 - 21:19
Prime Minister,
 
Please think again you are doing an injustice against the people that voted for you and this little country.
 
You are setting man against man.
 
With regards
 
David D
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National Party Members Reject ETS

Submitted by climaterealists on Sun, 23/05/2010 - 21:14
John Boscawen MP, ACT New Zealand
Press Release Tuesday, May 18 2010.

Reports that delegates at National’s Central North Island Conference this weekend unanimously passed a remit calling on the Government to scrap the ETS confirm that the party’s own supporters want the ETS to be delayed, if not scrapped, ACT Climate Change Spokesman John Boscawen said today.

"The unanimous vote shows that National Party members have realised what the Government is yet to realise, that it is environmentally pointless and economically reckless to proceed with the ETS," Mr Boscawen said.

"I too call on Prime Minister John Key and Dr Nick Smith to delay, if not scrap, the ETS.  In the mean time, any National Party members who are fed up with being ignored by the hierarchy of their own party on this issue are welcome to join ACT," Mr Boscawen said.
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New Zealand's emissions trading scheme - world famous in New Zealand

Submitted by climaterealists on Sun, 23/05/2010 - 21:13

18 May 2010

 

New Zealand's emissions trading scheme - world famous in New Zealand

 

Don Nicolson, President of Federated Farmers, speaking to the Australian Farm Institute's Agriculture and Greenhouse Emissions Conference.

 

It's my warm pleasure to be here in the beautiful city of Adelaide. I know Australians consider New Zealand the shaky isles while we, in turn, look to Australia, Queensland especially, as potentially the West Island of New Zealand.

 

So I wish to sincerely thank Mick Keogh and the Institute's staff, for the opportunity to be on the big island.  Only last month we collectively celebrated on ANZAC Day, the strong bond that exists between our two nations.  Yet when it comes to emissions trading we are striking out on divergent paths.

 

Its ironic Federated Farmers has had more media coverage in Australia on the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme than back across the Tasman.  Here, you have a media that has shown a detachment and a willingness to revisit past positions; in New Zealand we get clichés.   Let me illustrate.

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