Motu Economic and Public Policy Research have published a paper which states that short lived greenhouse gases (like methane) are quite different to long-lived GHGs (like CO2) In the report Motu say To stabilise the climate, it is necessary to … [Read more...]
Door opening for re think on agriculture’s contribution to gas emissions
The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s report on biological emissions released last month has opened the door to a rethink on agriculture’s contribution to global warming. In her report she outlines the difference between a cyclical … [Read more...]
Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment acknowledges methane and CO2 are different.
Parliamentary commissioner Jan Wright has released a report on biological greenhouse gases. The report is good news for farmers because in it Wright acknowledges the concerns we were set up to voice, and that is that methane and CO2 are vastly … [Read more...]
ETS Review
The ETS review is underway with submissions for the first part of the review closing on Friday 19th February. Biological emissions are part of the ETS but are exempted indefinitely and this is exemption is not part of the review. Also excluded from … [Read more...]
NZ Herald article by Robin Grieve
The New Zealand Herald published an article I wrote in response to statements made during the Paris Climate talks by our world leaders and some opinion piece writers that were inaccurate. While the article was primarily for that purpose I did manage … [Read more...]
Language changing over livestock emissions.
The Government has taken livestock emissions out of the ETS review for later this year. The ETS is an absolute joke so there will be plenty to review including the dodgy forestry credits NZ foresters sell, without the contentious issue of … [Read more...]
Double Triumph in Paris
The Paris talks have come and gone with a double triumph. Triumph 1 Nothing significant was agreed to. No binding agreement eventuated with the lofty goals of Copenhagen and hope of binding countries to emission reduction targets … [Read more...]
Methane vital for reducing global warming
Operation Cloud lab Watch on BBC Knowledge, channel 74 1/7/2015 at 9.30 p.m. 2/7/2015 at 4.55 a.m. and 11.25 a.m. This documentary proves that methane from rumen animals and wet lands is vital for keeping the earth cool. It is filmed … [Read more...]
The Green's Carbon Tax
PFCR has not gone away, I know we have been very quiet lately but we are still here. A funding shortfall has brought our progress to a halt part way through the process that we set out on. The ETS and livestock emissions have been issues that … [Read more...]
Greens claim about typhoon is not only sick but inaccurate
This is what the IPCC 5th Assessment Report released on September 27th this year says about tropical cyclones (a typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that occurs in certain latitudes.) These are direct quotes Section 14.6.1 Current datasets … [Read more...]
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