Keith Ng busts Nick’s Myth
On the Q & A show a few days ago Nick Smith made some pretty wild claims about the supposed costs to New Zealanders if NZ was to comit to the ‘40 per cent by 2020 on 1990 levels’ emissions that the scientists say is required.
Of course he didn’t say anything about the potential costs of not doing enough to avert climate change but what he did say turned out to be blatently false scaremongering.
Keith Ng over at publicaddress.net provides a beautifully succinct analysis of the flaws in Nick’s argument in a blog titled ‘Nick Smith. Spanking. Now.‘ The ensuing discussion is also worth a look (and is where I got the title of this blog).
You can listen to Keith talking about this over at wammo.
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Amazed (well not really) that the main stream media hasn’t picked up on it at all. Audio with Keith Ng is over at http://www.wammo.co.nz/2009/07/28/keith-ng-why-is-nick-smith-talking-crap/
Ian Wishart’s book “Air Con” has some very truthful things to say about the “Global Warming/Climate change” debate.
Climate change is a bit of a “non issue” that has been exaggerated by people wanting global governance, by taking advantage of normal climatic change effects such as El Nino and La Nino weather pattern events inorder to bring in a global emissions trading scheme (aka another makert based monetary system).
From an environmental perspective, market based systems do not work, because only those with money (in this case carbon credits) count.
The worlds people are being brainwashed through selective propaganda. Poor people will severly suffer under this system.