To Whom It May Concern It has been reported that agriculture is responsible for 50% of greenhouse gas emissions. What has not been reported is what percentage of NZ’s greenhouse gases are removed from the atmosphere by pastoral farming.  Any carbon emissions tax charged or credit given should be on the net balance of an activity not just one side of it. To tax only emissions with no credit given for carbon sequestered is unfair. All policy decisions seem to be based on the emissions and not the net contribution to total greenhouse gases by pastoral farming. A milking cow each day eats 7kgs ...

The game in town seems to be to bash the poor old ruminant for threatening the survival of the planet by belching methane into an overloaded and polluted atmosphere that is on the brink of total collapse under the weight of all this carbon. It is reported that carbon has reached the staggering proportion of 0.42 % of the atmosphere. The whole global warming theory is well documented and it revolves around carbon levels in the atmosphere increasing, causing the atmosphere to warm. I could spend the rest of my life shooting holes in this theory because there is so ...

I have just spent four hours with a lovely couple in their early 60’s who have had only two days away from their dairy farm in eight years. They work hard for every cent they have ever earned; they have a mortgage to pay and bills each month, mud in the winter, drought in the summer. This couple farm for a love of the life and their animals, but most of all they farm because they are farmers and I think it is disgraceful that they along with farmers around NZ are under attack by people who know nothing at ...

The special select committee to review the Emission Trading Scheme is not something to get excited about. John Key has said that we will have an emission trading scheme regardless of what the committee recommends. Peter Dunne the Chairman has stated the science that proves anthropogenic global warming is overwhelming. For that reason he says he does not want to re-litigate the science.  This is understandable because having to listen to science that conflicts with his overwhelming science would be confusing for him and he may not know what to do.  But Peter, the science is only overwhelming because it is ...