Members' Contributions

In our efforts to suggest to the NZ government that the further implementation of National's ETS scheme in July is not a good idea and should be delayed by at least two years, we are collecting Farm Impact Statements in which farmers can point out the effect that the ETS legislation will have on them, their families, their farming operation and their local communities.

These are forwarded to Act MP John Boscawen.

Neil Henderson's is below.

It was tabled in Parliament by John Boscawen on Wednesday 24th March 2010

The people who wrote the following still perceive there to be a problem with global warming..... but at least they're starting to see sense where animals are involved!

Eating less meat won't reduce global warming: study

factsaboutclimatechange.com

Eating less meat will not reduce global warming, and claims that it will distract from efforts to find real solutions to climate change, a leading air quality expert said Monday.

"We certainly can reduce our greenhouse gas production, but not by consuming less meat and milk," Frank Mitloehner, an air quality expert at the University of California-Davis, said as he presented a report on meat-eating and climate change at a conference of the American Chemical Society in California.

Blaming cows and pigs for climate change is scientifically inaccurate, said Mitloehner, dismissing several reports, including one issued in 2006 by the United Nations, which he said overstate the role that livestock play in global warming.

Viv Forbes- Carbon Sense Coalition

* Carbon dioxide contributes to only 4.2 - 8.4% of the greenhouse gas effect

* Only approximately 4% of carbon dioxide is man-made

* Water vapor accounts for 90 - 95% of the green house gas effect

* 99.99% of water vapor is natural, meaning that no amount of deindustrialization could get rid of it

John Boscawen is one of the few sane voices in parliament on the issue of the ETS legislation- here is a selection of his press releases.

The climate is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places 
the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce 
Department yesterday from Consulafft, at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, 
seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and 
hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report 

TIA Daily • February 14, 2010

Last Sunday, the London Times carried a profile of Phil Jones- the head of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia and the man at the center of the Climategate scandal. The professor admitted to having contemplated suicide "several times" since the scandal broke, and the article continued: "The incident has taken a severe toll on his health. He has lost more than a stone [14 pounds] in weight and disclosed he is on beta-blockers and using sleeping pills." Is this the reaction of a man with a clear conscience?

The article says that Jones is 57 years old—but in the accompanying photo, he looks about 20 years older. He looks 40 years older than he does in every other picture I've seen of him before now. The stress of Climategate is literally killing him.