Report: Agricultural Methane emissions recycle automatically producing Emission Trading credits. By Dr Sean Devine, a research physicist. Dr Sean Devine’s early research life focused on infra-red physics. He later undertook physics research in … [Read more...]
Copenhagen
The chances of anything being signed at Copenhagen were never good and thankfully it seems what slim chance there was is getting slimmer. The US is unlikely to get its emissions scheme through its Senate and nor is Australia. It seems NZ is one of … [Read more...]
Nitrous Oxide is a neat litle gas
Nitrous Oxide is laughing gas and it is laughable how it is being treated by journalists. Now called the most significant ozone depleting gas nitrous oxide's association with agriculture sees farmers now taking the rap for depleting the ozone layer … [Read more...]
Revised carbon emissions for agriculture
Revised carbon liability for agriculture The Ministry of the Environment has released its review of New Zealand’s carbon emissions for the year 2008. It has updated our forecast carbon emissions for the Kyoto commitment for the period 2008- 2012. … [Read more...]
The Kyoto Folly – Lawnmower versus Sheep
New Zealand’s Emission Trading Scheme was devised to comply with the Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol was devised to combat global warming. The idea is that a country’s carbon emissions are measured, or guessed, in line with clear rules laid out in … [Read more...]
Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions Letter
To Whom It May Concern It has been reported that agriculture is responsible for 50% of greenhouse gas emissions. What has not been reported is what percentage of NZ’s greenhouse gases are removed from the atmosphere by pastoral farming. Any carbon … [Read more...]
COWS BELCH METHANE; SO WHAT?
The game in town seems to be to bash the poor old ruminant for threatening the survival of the planet by belching methane into an overloaded and polluted atmosphere that is on the brink of total collapse under the weight of all this carbon. It is … [Read more...]
Good hard working salt of the earth NZers do not deserve these attacks
I have just spent four hours with a lovely couple in their early 60’s who have had only two days away from their dairy farm in eight years. They work hard for every cent they have ever earned; they have a mortgage to pay and bills each month, mud in … [Read more...]
Believe in Santa Claus not man-made global warming
The special select committee to review the Emission Trading Scheme is not something to get excited about. John Key has said that we will have an emission trading scheme regardless of what the committee recommends. Peter Dunne the Chairman has stated … [Read more...]