On the minor party leaders debate Don Brash said that biological emissions were sourced from the atmosphere, Russell Norman went into a laughing fit as if Brash had said the most ridiculous thing in the world. Afterwards In the NZ Herald Claire Trevett said “Green co-leader Russel Norman, who sounded credible on the economy and made Act’s Brash look a nincompoop with his theory of the carbon that fed the grass that caused the cow to belch the carbon.”
This is great because it is giving us an opportunity to get our message about these emissions out there. Act has a fairly strong rural influence on the list and on the Board so they are pushing Brash on this issue.
This is what he said at the Party launch
Indeed, there’s a strong argument that biological emissions don’t add to greenhouse gases at all: every unit of carbon emitted by pastures, crops and animals was first absorbed from the atmosphere.
As far as I know he is the only party leader saying this
I did send Claire an email asking her where did she think the carbon came from, and suggested a school science book might help her and I also told her that the billions of dollars Norman claims are being spent on subsidies to emitters don’t exist, and that he was basing his economic policy on cancelling these non existent subsidies.
I haven’t heard back.
The interesting thing is that lots of the comments she got on the website agreed with Brash, which means our message is getting out there. Brash might be the only part leader to have studied this subject but the others might have to look at it now which will be good for our cause.
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