Our industry advocates and politicians have a blind obsession with emissions but will not stop to consider what effect those emissions have on atmospheric temperature, even though their own scientific advisors have told them the answer is at best 4 millionths of a degree per year (effectively zero!)

If you have kept your finger on the emissions pulse, none of the below information will be a surprise to you. However, if you are a farmer that has not been following New Zealand’s ruminant methane issue then you may be in for a nasty shock. .. New Zealand agriculture has been falsely accused of contributing to 50% of the country’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. I use the word ‘falsely’ because … an outdated metric has been used to model New Zealand’s GHG emissions contributions. Even the IPCC themselves have stated that the metric is unfit for purpose …