NGAI TAHU AT ODDS WITH GOVT OVER TREES

The Press has a good yarn on Nick Smith giving Ngai Tahu a serve over its claims that the emissions trading scheme will cost it $120 million.

This is shaping up to be a serious battle between the Government and the Ngai Tahu.

What we know is the ETS will cost the tribe. Equally arguing with the Crown over the trees will cost the tribe. Not good.

BLUE SKIES SHINING ON ME

If anyone doubted that climate change was a lot of hot air, how about this latest nonsense from the Ministry for the Environment.
Because of a recent drought (ie, because it got hotter) New Zealand’s agriculture production fell and so we have again met our Kyoto obligations!

In other words, when it gets hotter, New Zealand obeys the rules! So climate change is the solution to our Kyoto deficit! When is someone going to call time on all this crap? A drought does far more to reduce emissions than any ETS, carbon tax or other Kyoto bullshit.

FART PROUDLY EWE

POSTED BY LAMBCUT our new Roarprawn contributor

An article in the Wall Street Journal Mutton Methane: Reducing Flatulence to Reduce Global Warming, has left Americans belching derision and scorn upon us. The article concerns NZ scientist’s efforts to reduce sheep and cow flatulence.

Some of the comments:

“Congratulations enviro-nazis! We have reached a new level of insanity! Limiting flatulence of cows??? Are you serious????. I am fearful of the next progression of absurdity”, “Kudos for the article! It reminded me of the scene in the film Blazing Saddles where the cowhands sat around a campfire eating beans …Where is Mel Brooks when you need him?”. “Stop animals from farting? Enough! When is the media and the American people going to put a stop this nonsense??”, “The sheer arrogance and stupidity of the idiots who espouse the ridiculous nonsense is beyond description”.

Lambcut is not surprised by the reaction. We have been caught up in the Labour Government’s bubble of self important silly gas regarding our little contribution to climate change; behaving like the distasteful distant friend at a funeral belabouring her egocentric guilt over the death of the departed.

Jon Morgan commented on the US reaction in Saturday’s Dompost: “Though agriculture produced 9 percent of the US’s greenhouse emissions, its farm animals were responsible for 19 percent of the world’s emissions. NZ’s livestock produced 0.2 per cent of the world total.” What this really illustrates is that livestock, anywhere, are not the big end of the problem. To have any significant effect on climate change, the large emitters need to get on and address the large issues.

The Clark government’s cringing Kyoto piety has resulted in research funding, critically needed elsewhere in agriculture, being scurrilously squandered on flatulence.

Wall Street Journal Article Link: http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/02/26/mutton-methane-reducing-flatulence-to-reduce-global-warming/