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Labour going to suck $4.8 billion out of agriculture

July 18, 2011 By Robin Grieve

A perplexing weekend. I was watching Q & A, Paul Holmes was interviewing Don Nicholson the ACT candidate for Southland. Paul Holmes said that we need innovation and Labour’s $800 million R & D policy was good, and to fund it farmers were … [Read more...]

Methane not 21 times more potent than CO2 after all

June 10, 2011 By Robin Grieve

Quite a lot to report on with Dr Wilson Flood throwing a spanner in the works. He is a Doctor of Chemistry from the UK. I will report more on this later. A quick précis is that the premise that methane is a greenhouse gas 21 times more effective than … [Read more...]

Misrepresentations, misinformation and Dairy NZ

June 4, 2011 By Robin Grieve

From the Dairy NZ website Carbon goes through a series of cycles through pastoral systems, and ruminant animals do not add any new carbon to the atmosphere. But that is really unimportant because ruminants convert carbon dioxide to methane, the … [Read more...]

PHil Goff's plans for farmers.

May 29, 2011 By Robin Grieve

Phil Goff announced Labour would bring agricultural livestock emissions into the ETS in 2013, two years ahead of the 2015 entry under National’s amended ETS. This would raise $800 million dollars for R & D, he said. A couple of flags went up for … [Read more...]

Save NZ from its own Government

May 22, 2011 By Robin Grieve

The Climate people are gearing up for the next round of talks on an international agreement on climate change. This will happen in Durban at the end of the year. In all the correspondence I have had with politicians like Nick Smith and David Carter … [Read more...]

Livestock emissions continue to track downwards

April 27, 2011 By Robin Grieve

Livestock emissions continue to track downwards, according to the just released New Zealand’s greenhouse gas inventory update for 2009.  I loathe giving these CO2equivalents any credibility as a unit by using them but that is how methane and nitrous … [Read more...]

ETS Review

April 10, 2011 By Robin Grieve

The ETS review panel has now received the submissions for its review. It will hear from a selected few before making their recommendations. I have asked to be heard on the 20 April. They are probably not too keen on hearing from too many, in fact I … [Read more...]

This is one for the sceptics.

March 17, 2011 By Robin Grieve

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.

February 21, 2011 By Robin Grieve

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...]

Study shows enteric methane has no impact on atmosphere

December 20, 2010 By Robin Grieve

It’s been raining consistently in the North for a few days. This is great news and I assume the drought has broken for now. David Carter attributed the drought to climate change. I don’t know what this rain says about climate change, we’ll have to … [Read more...]

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