So writes Alister Doyle, Environment correspondent from Reuters Source: Reuters OSLO, April 7 (Reuters) - Grazing by cows or sheep can cut emissions of nitrous oxide -- a powerful greenhouse gas -- in grasslands from China to the United States, … [Read more...]
Press Council Rules on Climate Change Article
The NZ Press Council has upheld a complaint made by Robin Grieve Chairman of Pastural Farming Climate Research Inc. against the NZ Herald. The complaint concerned their reporting of livestock emissions and the extent of agriculture's contribution to … [Read more...]
The Minister and the three ovens
The Minister for Agriculture and officials in his Ministry are using the analogy of the 'three ovens' to try and justify the Government's policy on livestock emissions of methane. It seems they like this analogy to try and explain why emissions of … [Read more...]
The New Zealand Government's blind faith in the IPCC is not justified
For as long as we have existed we have questioned the assertion that agricultural emissions of methane contribute to global warming. For it to do so an emission of enteric methane has to alter the composition of the atmosphere. That is the … [Read more...]
Agriculture & Copenhagen
It is a huge relief that Copenhagen is over with no binding agreement. At Kyoto our negotiators did NZ a disservice when they signed up to the system of carbon dioxide equivalents with its global warming potentials which were nonsense then and they … [Read more...]
Animal Respiration & Global Warming
Two World Bank environmental advisors Robert Goddard and Jeff Anhang put out a report claiming eating meat was having far more of an impact on global warming than was officially recognised. They argue that instead of producing 18% of world emissions … [Read more...]
Climate gate
Global consumption of meat and dairy products has doubled in the last 30 years and the methane concentration in the atmosphere has not increased in that time. This statement is indisputable; factual and certainly questions what they say about … [Read more...]
Daylight Robbery is Fairer Mr Key
John Key's newest tactic to silence farmers is to proffer himself a s their saviour by claiming his scheme is only going to cost $3000 per year per farmer while labour's was going to cost $30000 per year in the year 2030 This presumes we are not … [Read more...]
Farmers do u-turn on carbon tax
This is the headline that got me riled up but as is so often the case the headline does not reflect the actual story. Federated Farmers u-turn is not really a u-turn and it is not over the ETS or a tax on carbon emissions as such it is on the FART … [Read more...]
Back From the Brink!
With no agreement on the table for the Copenhagen conference the Kyoto agreement will finish in 2012 and nothing will replace it. This is great news for New Zealand and agriculture. This is because the chance of any binding international agreement in … [Read more...]