Daily review 06/07/2022

Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, July 6th, 2022 - 5 comments
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  1. weka 1
    6 July 2022 at 6:38 pm

    "the Americans couldn't even spell democracy". Lol. No idea who this is, but ✊

    https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1544216200644902914

  2. Robert Guyton 2
    6 July 2022 at 8:39 pm

    Climate Change: Calling bullshit on He Waka Eke Noa

    Last month, farmers released their proposal for emissions pricing, which was a scam from start to finish, packed with artificially low prices subsidised by the rest of us, bullshit "offsets" also subsidised by the rest of us, and predatory delay. Today, the Climate Commission released their assessment of the proposal, in the form of a statutory report on Progress towards agricultural emissions pricing. And while they're polite about it, they basicly call bullshit on the whole scam. The important takeaways:

    • Farmers are already breaking the promises they made to us about monitoring their emissions;
    • Years of predatory delay and farmer recalcitrance means they can't implement what they're proposing;
    • A lot of what they are proposing – in particular, the entire "offset" scheme – is bullshit anyway, since its neither real nor additional – not additional because its claiming credits for stuff that was already happening, and not real because the supposed "reductions" are not scientifically supported and so not recognised in our inventory. They do however suggest that the government could recognise some of it outside the emissions pricing system, e.g. by paying directly for biodiversity protection (which isn't a terrible idea);
    • The magic technology farmers are relying on to lower emissions without them having to change their practices isn't going to arrive any time soon, and will take time to be recognised in inventories anyway;
    • The 95% free allocation promised by the government is likely to result in significant overallocation, and needs to be ditched;
    • While they don't talk about subsidised emissions prices, they've basicly done a whole other report on that, which pans the idea;
    • The He Waka Eke Noa scheme is unfair to other New Zealanders.

    No Right Turn serves bullish*t up on a plate 🙂

    See more here:

    http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2022/07/climate-change-calling-bullshit-on-he.html

    • Poission 2.1
      6 July 2022 at 9:13 pm

      The He Waka Eke Noa scheme is unfair to other New Zealanders.

      Um actually no.They said it is the best system to quantify emissions,and remedy's that may be used but the systems would not be in place by 2025 for pricing mechanisms.

      The parts they disagreed with were,on farm vegetation (such as food forests) wetland mitigation (flax etc) and the use of synthetic nitrogen which would be priced at the import or manufacturing source.(this will also affect forestry,horticulture,and pastoral cropping)

      They also said equitable pricing is needed to include Maori agriculture,and Maori collectively owned land which would breach UNDRIP.

      Holland brought in a restriction in nitrogen fertilizer,under the guise of CC (but more with trade imbalances due to the significant wealth destruction of their oil trading businesses.

      With some responses from farmers who have stopped supplying supermarkets and tooled up.

      https://twitter.com/TheRealKeean/status/1544465282957189120