New Zealand Pastural Farming Climate Research

Promoting livestock methane emissions as sustainable and not responsible for global warming and advocating fairness for agricultural producers under any carbon emission laws or regulations.

This is one for the sceptics.

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The Minister for Climate Change Issues Nick Smith is planning to join the Sceptics Society at a lunch in one of Christchurch’s highest, oldest, stone buildings – on the day that “moon man” Ken Ring says the city could be hit by another devastating … [Read more...]

Climatologist is wrong about meat.

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Dr James Hansen, who is described as a top climatologist from the Goddard Institute has called for a reduction in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. “We have to actually reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere; It’s already increased to … [Read more...]

Cancun

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Its danger time at Cancun, the bureaucrats have handed over to the politicians for the final week. Our politicians would still like to sign NZ up to a binding post Kyoto agreement. For NZ’s sake we hope they fail. Our politicians are becoming … [Read more...]

Summary of submissions

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There were 61 submissions received by MAF during the consultation process to determine the emission factors for agriculture’s reporting of carbon emissions. Some points of interest Species exemption MAF proposed exempting Llama, alpaca, ostrich, … [Read more...]

Methane from livestock not the problem!

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Enteric methane produced (tonnes) 1990       1,039857 1998       1,069750 1999       1,102670 2000       1,127900 2001       1,101238 2002       1,123076 2003       1,123438 2007       1,111647 2008       1,078928 Enteric methane produced … [Read more...]

Cancun is coming up in just over a week

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This is another attempt at international agreement on global warming. There is no chance of any agreement and it is an indication of how things have changed that there is almost no media coverage of this. Compared to the sickening display we had at … [Read more...]

Emission Factors

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In just 6 weeks agriculture will start the voluntary reporting of the bullshit emissions as calculated using the science defying logic of the Ministry of Bullshit. This is a new ministry that encompasses the Ministry’s of Climate Change issues, … [Read more...]

Workshops you might be interested in

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This email from Ag ITO Dear Robin Building on the success of previous climate change workshops, Agriculture ITO is running further workshops on behalf of MAF and DairyNZ for all agriculture, horticulture and forestry tutors and teachers to discuss … [Read more...]