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  • frog

    Upton warns of a laughing stock - by frog



    Simon Upton writes a good critique of New Zealand’s climate change situation in today’s Dom Post. It must be amazing for the former National Party Minister who got us involved with the Kyoto process in the first place to watch as once again, we go back to square one in terms of our response to [...] read more
    December 2, 2008 12:01 pm - 23 Comments
  • Jeanette Fitzsimons

    NZ red-faced over climate change - by Jeanette Fitzsimons



    Why would someone who believes climate change is a hoax and human activity is not contributing to climate change, want a carbon tax? Why would you tax fossil fuels if you don’t believe they are doing any harm? Why would a party that has campaigned on a carbon tax since 1993 and accepted the ETS [...] read more
    November 30, 2008 4:31 pm - 89 Comments
  • frog

    NZ now a joke in Europe - by frog



    Thanks Rodney. Thanks John. From Scoop: Specialist news service Carbon News this morning reports broker Nigel Brunel, of OMF Financial, as saying New Zealand is “a bit of a joke in Europe at the moment” following the National-Act agreement to suspend the emissions trading scheme. “This was New Zealand’s opportunity to reinvent its financial markets [...] read more
    November 22, 2008 4:13 pm - 69 Comments