2010 June

No cow, sheep, pig, or goat has ever managed to create carbon from nothing.

They produce products by using carbon taken out of the air which is then stored away in the bones of growing children, in carpets and furniture and clothing.

This means greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere can not increase due to the presence of ruminants; they can only decrease if anything. The agricultural emissions that they claim make up 48.5% of NZ's greenhouse gas emissions do not exist. They conjure these figures up in theoretical models and concepts; They then confuse these theoretical emissions with real carbon emissions such as those from oil and gas; And they lump them all together and the result is a complete farce. Take our carbon quizz and find out more...

Jun 30, 20100

ETS meetings

Dr Smith and National are doing the hard sell on the ETS. He uses all the logic he can to justify National's position on the science of using an ETS. From his promo; First, can I give you the Government's view on the science. We don't claim a consensus or a perfect scientific understanding of the earth's climate system. But we are satisfied that enough is known to be of concern and that action is justified to curb our growth in emissions. This is about sound risk management. New Zealanders expect governments to prudently manage risk of phenomena like earthquakes. We all ...

Jun 26, 20101

Email campaign, John Key needs to be told.

John Key believes there is not much opposition by farmers to the ETS. He said this on the radio news after it was reported he got a roasting at the Federated Farmers conference. It is hard to believe he means this, and it is hard to believe any farmers support an ETS which takes punitive measures against farmers because their livestock produce methane, but does not factor in the rest of the methane cycle and does not give farmers credit for their role in that. The net effect of a livestock farm on the atmospheric concentration of methane is zero. The ...

Jun 11, 20100

Methane is not the problem

Atmopsheric concentrations of methane are stable, (some years it falls, some years it increases) despite a doubling in global consumption of meat and dairy products over the last 30 years. This is why; Estimated sources and sinks of methane in Tg CH4 (a Tg = 1 million tonnes) per year from the IPCC Working Group 1 report Sources Wetlands 115 Rice paddies 110 Livestock 80 Natural gas venting 45 Biomass burning 40 Termites 40 Landfills 40 Coal mining 35 Oceans 10 Freshwaters 5 Other 5 Total 525 Tg Sinks Removal be soils 30 Reaction with OH in the atmosphere 500 Total Sink 530 Tg Of the total 525 Tg CH4 ...