Dr Graeme Coles, a Canterbury-based nutrition scientist, has calculated that someone getting their minimum essential amino acid requirements from plant-based foods excretes more climate-damaging material than the same person getting them … Read More...
No cow, sheep, pig, or goat has ever managed to create carbon from nothing.
They produce products by using carbon taken out of the air which is then stored away in the bones of growing children, in carpets and furniture and clothing. This means greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere can not increase due to the presence of ruminants; they can only decrease if anything. The agricultural emissions that they claim make up 48.5% of NZ’s greenhouse gas emissions do not exist. They then confuse these theoretical emissions with real carbon emissions such as those from oil and gas; And they lump them all together and the result is a complete farce.
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Schools climate curriculum is not science.
The resource material in the schools climate change resource attributes agriculture with producing 48.1% of our greenhouse gas emissions which is simply not scientifically true. Agriculture produces 48.1% of carbon emissions based on the CO2 … Read More...
Stuff change their story
Stuff have agreed to change their story on methane On November 11 last year Stuff published a story by left leaning political reporter Henry Cooke on the role NZ First played in keeping the ridiculous and excessive methane target in the Zero … Read More...
Anti farmer bias at Stuff
Farmers have good cause to feel persecuted with our media bias on display at Stuff. I laid a complaint against an article by Henry Cooke of Stuff for inaccurately stating that livestock methane emissions make up roughly half of the … Read More...
