Dear Editor
You should encourage readers to write to their local MP regarding the Zero Carbon Bill and post a weekly letter. It seems shaming is the only way to get them to listen to the public. I haven’t received a response to my complaint but that’s OK as I felt much better after sending it.
Because of National’s decision to support the Zero Carbon Bill, I will not support National in the upcoming elections. A party with more common sense will get my vote, National does not deserve it.
Within 2-3 days China will produce the same amount of CO2 that New Zealand produces in 1 year. We can turn off our power stations, stop using fossil fuels and launch ourselves back to the Stone Age and we will have no effect on global warming. If stopping global warming is so important to the New Zealand government I suggest you start browbeating China and India before you browbeat New Zealanders.
All of the global warming predictions of climate scientists have been proven wrong over time. The polar bears are not disappearing, they are thriving and their numbers have increased. The peak of Mt Kilimanjaro still has snow (my great aunt was the first woman to climb that mountain). Sea levels have not risen dramatically and islands have not been washed away, in fact their land mass have increased. Storms have not become more intense or more frequent. The Arctic still has sea ice in summer. A fortune teller with a crystal ball would have more luck at predicting the effects of global warming than climate scientists.
How is the science settled when they don’t seem to know what’s going on? Why is questioning the science heresy when the science can’t even pass the scientific method? Why is warming considered a catastrophe and not a good thing? How can they be so wrong for so long and still be credible? Why are you willing to harm our economy based on such flawed science?
The problem with scary predictions is that only time can prove them wrong. We have to wait 20 years to find out. In that 20 years China and India will not halt or reduce their CO2 emissions. Quite frankly, the Zero Carbon Bill is virtue signalling to a world that doesn’t care what New Zealand does and will be as effective as a fart in the wind in stopping global warming.
With the Zero Carbon Bill New Zealand will set an example to the world, in the same way that Venezuela is setting an example to the world. We will be an example of what not to do.”
Cheers,Tamsin
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