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	<description>We promote livestock methane emissions as sustainable and not responsible for global warming in New Zealand.</description>
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		<title>Farmers are Not Polluters</title>
		<link>http://www.farmcarbon.co.nz/index.php/2010/09/farmers-are-not-polluters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Grieve</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Farmers are not polluters.&#8221;
This statement was made by John Boscawen of the ACT Party on Backbenchers ETS special on TVNZ 7 on the 25th August. I was away at the time so I watched it courtesy of a link sent by Climate Realists.
&#8220;Farmers are not polluters&#8221; he said &#8220;because methane breaks down in ten years&#8221;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is Dairy NZ working for really?</title>
		<link>http://www.farmcarbon.co.nz/index.php/2010/08/who-is-dairy-nz-working-for-really/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Grieve</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Landcare Research scientist joins Dairy NZ scientist in being unable to clarify their confused and contradictory positions.
Scientists from both organisations maintain that methane from a steady source does not result in an increase in the atmospheric concentration of methane.
David Whitehead of Landcare Research likened it to a bath tub filled with water (or methane). When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now they are contradicting themselves</title>
		<link>http://www.farmcarbon.co.nz/index.php/2010/08/now-they-are-contradicting-themselves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Grieve</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dairy NZ is giving a series of workshops on livestock farming and greenhouse gases. They are delivering it on behalf of MAF so there is a fair amount of Government propaganda delivered. &#8220;We need an ETS or they won&#8217;t buy our produce &#8221; sort of propaganda. On balance they did deliver it in a manner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fears For Safety of Nick Smith at ETS meeting</title>
		<link>http://www.farmcarbon.co.nz/index.php/2010/07/fears-for-safety-of-nick-smith-at-ets-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.farmcarbon.co.nz/index.php/2010/07/fears-for-safety-of-nick-smith-at-ets-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Grieve</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This from Karen Arnold of the NZ Herald


There were fears for the safety of Climate Change Issues Minister Nick Smith tonight as he faced a barrage of abuse from mainly irate Southland farmers at a meeting to discuss the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
More than 300 people from across Clutha and Southland packed the Gore venue, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study destroys Nick Smith&#8217;s spurious claims</title>
		<link>http://www.farmcarbon.co.nz/index.php/2010/07/study-destroys-nick-smiths-spurious-claims/</link>
		<comments>http://www.farmcarbon.co.nz/index.php/2010/07/study-destroys-nick-smiths-spurious-claims/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Grieve</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t want to pick on John Armstrong but the flaws in his argument keep getting bigger and bigger.
In justifying National&#8217;s ETS he said
It firmly believes something had to be done to safeguard the country&#8217;s export trade - or New Zealand would otherwise face mounting consumer resistance to goods transported from afar.
Farmers - amazingly - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ETS, more harm than good for NZ export trade</title>
		<link>http://www.farmcarbon.co.nz/index.php/2010/07/ets-more-harm-than-good-for-nz-export-trade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.farmcarbon.co.nz/index.php/2010/07/ets-more-harm-than-good-for-nz-export-trade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Grieve</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[John Armstrong, NZ Herald political commentator, takes on the role of National Party spokesperson by justifying the Government&#8217;s implementation of the ETS
It firmly believes something had to be done to safeguard the country&#8217;s export trade - or New Zealand would otherwise face mounting consumer resistance to goods transported from afar.
Farmers - amazingly - have seemed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ETS meetings</title>
		<link>http://www.farmcarbon.co.nz/index.php/2010/06/ets-meetings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Grieve</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Smith and National are doing the hard sell on the ETS. He uses all the logic he can to justify National&#8217;s position on the science of using an ETS.
From his promo;
First, can I give you the Government&#8217;s view on the science. We don&#8217;t claim a consensus or a perfect scientific understanding of the earth&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Email campaign, John Key needs to be told.</title>
		<link>http://www.farmcarbon.co.nz/index.php/2010/06/email-campaign-john-key-needs-to-be-told/</link>
		<comments>http://www.farmcarbon.co.nz/index.php/2010/06/email-campaign-john-key-needs-to-be-told/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 02:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Grieve</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Methane is not the problem</title>
		<link>http://www.farmcarbon.co.nz/index.php/2010/06/methane-is-not-the-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.farmcarbon.co.nz/index.php/2010/06/methane-is-not-the-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Grieve</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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                            [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MAF are inviting submissions on the Climate Change (agriculture sector) Regulations.</title>
		<link>http://www.farmcarbon.co.nz/index.php/2010/05/maf-are-inviting-submissions-on-the-climate-change-agriculture-sector-regulations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.farmcarbon.co.nz/index.php/2010/05/maf-are-inviting-submissions-on-the-climate-change-agriculture-sector-regulations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 05:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Grieve</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Our good friends at Climate Realists have sent out this link to the MAF consultation process 
http://www.maf.govt.nz/climatechange/agriculture/agriculture-regulations-consultation.pdf
 
ALL FARMERS SHOULD MAKE A SUBMISSION
 
Submissions close June 9

 
The consultation process is to address how agricultural emissions are going to be calculated.
Apart from the obvious that livestock emissions are climate neutral and should not be [...]]]></description>
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