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.

Job Vacancy

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International Policy/Senior Policy Analyst: Climate Change MAF are advertising for someone to fill this role; this is what they are requiring in terms of key skills. I have added a few extra skills in italics based on my experience dealing with … [Read more...]

The Minister and the three ovens

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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...]

John Boscawen

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I had a productive meeting with John Boscawen from the ACT Party last Monday night. The ACT party is farmers only hope of progress in our case against being the only farmers in the world hit with the injustice of being taxed for no good reason … [Read more...]

Animal Respiration & Global Warming

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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...]

Copenhagen

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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...]

Select Committee Hearing

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I appeared before the Finance and Expenditure Committee on Wednesday. It went well, you only get ten minutes and while they had received our submissions in advance how much of each of them they remember is debatable. There were over 300 submissions … [Read more...]