Squilliam on 24 November 2009
| Rath said: Methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas but it's also a less common one than CO2. CO2 is the second largest contributor to the greenhouse effect after water vapor. @Squlliam. The problem with our ETS scheme is that it's very lopsided and essentially stupid. It grants huge concessions to farmers when farmers emit a huge amount of our greenhouse emissions. In reality we need to accept that per capita emissions for NZ are always going to be large as we export so much meat and dairy. One question for everyone who believes that AGW is driven by a political agenda. Who's political agenda is it? Every damned country is doing their best to avoid the issue - hence the problem with the Copenhagen talks. |
But if the quantity of greenhouse gasses released by our farmers were to decline then farmers overseas would pick up the slack and they are far less efficient than our own which would mean effectively a net increase in greenhouse gasses when you have farmers whom are far less efficient replacing our lost production in 3rd world countries. Effectively its the same as co2 heavy industry in the U.S. being outsourced to China where the net outflow of these 'greenhouse gasses' is actually higher than if nothing were to be done at all.
P.S. I live in the Waikato.
Tease.
