The hottest day ever recorded as ACT/National/Groundswell/Federated Farmers continue to minimise climate change
As the climate deniers and climate minimalists continue to bleat that climate change is a socialist hoax, or pretend we can’t do anything, or factiously claim ‘the climate always change’ while they continue not spread spiteful disinformation and malicious lies, the planet is melting…
World registers hottest day ever recorded on July 3
Monday, July 3, was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to data from the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction.
The average global temperature reached 17.01 degrees Celsius (62.62 Fahrenheit), surpassing the August 2016 record of 16.92C (62.46F) as heatwaves sizzled around the world.
The southern US has been suffering under an intense heat dome in recent weeks. In China, an enduring heatwave continued, with temperatures above 35C (95F). North Africa has seen temperatures near 50C (122F).
And even Antarctica, currently in its winter, registered anomalously high temperatures. Ukraine’s Vernadsky Research Base in the white continent’s Argentine Islands recently broke its July temperature record with 8.7C (47.6F).
…as the world melts, National, ACT, Groundswell and Federated Farmers are promising to do everything to undermine the very little the Greens/Labour have managed.
The level of denial over what is happening and where this is all going is beneath the challenge of the moment…
Damning report finds more than 400,000 New Zealand homes at risk of flooding
Newly released research has found more than 400,000 homes around New Zealand are at risk of flooding.
The report by NIWA and the University of Auckland found 441,384 residential buildings were in flood-prone areas, with a hefty estimated replacement value of $218 billion – a massive 12 percent of New Zealand’s housing value.
…The Biggest Lie in NZ Politics is that NZ Dairy is the cleanest and greenest in the world when the reality is that it’s a cherry picked nonsense that leaves out pollution so NZ Dairy can get to the numbers to pretend to be clean and green.
Russel Norman’s take down of this Dairy propaganda on The AM Show recently was just ruthless…
“NZ is the biggest seller of a simple commodity called dried milk powder, the cheapest of the cheap, and if you look at what is happening in food production around the world they are looking for more environmentally sound food products.
They are looking for higher value products.
We’ve gone down the pathway of the lowest quality commodity you can produce in the world.
NZ is mid range in terms of its environmental cost per kilogram of milk solids, there is nothing special about it, and we do feed a small number of people compared to the billions on the planet and the economics is very clear that you can be just as profitable if you pull back on the stock rate, pull back on the amount of fertiliser and actually produce a higher product.
Organics is in fact doing incredibly well globally, so why don’t we become a producer of dairy rather than the producer of the cheapest commodity on the planet which results in us trashing our water ways and being big climate producers, that’s a better pathway isn’t it?
…he’s so right!
We always ignore that the 40million number is based on us selling milk powder as a base line ingredient filler for the manufactured food industry. The PR spin pretends it’s wholesome NZ cheese and milk and meat those 40million are eating when the truth is the vast majority of what we export is basic bitch milk powder used as a filler ingredient!
The Climate Crisis was some event we feared at the end of the century, what we are seeing is an unleashing of heat events well beyond what we feared.
There is just no plan to adapt to this new reality when it should be the driving force to begin immediate and radical adaptation for what is coming.
We have no comprehension of what is coming and we are simply not prepared for the age of consequences.
Watching National, ACT and Corporate Farmers use their economic and political muscle to avoid responsibility for what comes next can only be resolved by civil unrest and a campaign of civil disobedience against those interests.
Just consider how the Corporate Farming Lobby have managed to avoid any tax on their pollution since mid 2004!
They have pushed and pushed and pushed it off for 20 years!
National have already promised ANOTHER 5 year extension which will mean the agricultural industry have managed to stop any tax on their pollution for quarter of a century!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Claiming that NZs emissions mean nothing in comparison to China and India isn’t a justification to do nothing, it’s an acknowledgement that radical adaptation is the only move left because those Goliath economies have already doomed us to a dangerous climate change future!
The Left must force a bargain with Farmers for strategically essential reasons.
They are going to feed us when the famine comes.
A recent report on food security found NZ had incredibly low food security because it was so open market driven and refused to subsidise farmers.
Which is where we on the Left must drive the debate.
We should absolutely consider subsidising food grown by NZ farmers and horticulturalists and our seafood and meat and dairy that generates a 15% price reduction for all NZ produce consumed here.
Rebuilding a direct link between the harvest grown here, the people who grow it and a grateful local market who enjoy the product WITH a 15% price reduction.
Climate change will kill global free market supply chains, we are locked into hyper-regionalism. We need to build new economic structures, subsidising NZ kai for the domestic market would lock in certainty for producers while strengthening food security for the population.
We have to find new ways of working together to ensure we can survive what’s coming.
We are a nation of fatherless children raised by angry solo mothers, a low imagination horizon juvenile settler culture built upon stealing indigenous land and polluting it without restraint. A rugged individualism dependent on exploiting a low wage economy and rigging under-regulated capitalism for the rich.
The old greeds, the old hates and the old exploitations will no longer hold the system together if that system is melting in real time.
Super-rich warned of ‘pitchforks and torches’ unless they tackle inequality
Global elite told at London’s Savoy hotel of real risk of ‘civil disruption’ if more is not done to help struggling millions
This is the age of consequences.
They won’t be pleasant.
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This collection of power hungry fools will engage in all manner of chicanery to fulfill their covetousness desires.
And if that means the rest of us burn – so be it.
I know you keep saying it is corporate farmers, as if the typical family farmer, still in their many tens of thousands, either has no say or is of a different view. It is political label, not an actual analysis of rural views.
I would suggest that the big majority of family farmers, who are still have majority of all farming land, share these views. In fact, as Groundswell shows, they are driving it.
There are a number of reasons, mostly to do with their income.
Farmers, unlike urban people, will be paying the emissions levy directly. For urban people, emissions levies are paid by larger industrial firms. The impact of carbon charges is indirect and for most of us, very small. For farmers, emissions levies mean a direct and substantial reduction in their income. Many believe that the costs are sufficient to make farming unviable, not that I believe that. Nevertheless they see tens of thousands coming off their bottom line. The bottom line being that actual money they pay themselves to live. In their view it would be perhaps a 30% reduction in take home pay. How many other people are facing that level of reduction of income due to emissions levies?
The second main argument is that New Zealand is too small to matter. What difference do we make to global warming. It is of course an argument that all small OECD countries can make and will cut no ice in international fora.
The third argument is that NZ livestock farmers are the most efficient in the world. A reduction in production here simply means more production by less efficient farmers elsewhere with consequent greater emissions.
The fourth argument is tat the farming sector produces most of New Zealand’s foreign exchange which underpins the total economy. Therefore we all need to share the cost, not just load it onto one sector.
Now I know some of these arguments are invalid, but that doesn’t stop farmers making them. The reason being that their belief that their take-home pay will be dramatically reduced.
We need to find a way to spread the cost of reducing farm emissions among all of us, so we are not asking family farmers to take a massive reduction in their take home pay, while almost no-one else has to pay much at all.
Quite right. I think it is also a myth that the urban workers hold a different opinion to the farmers. I suspect if you polled voters in safe Labour seats, most would agree with every one of those arguments.
The small farmers can’t possibly support the Primary Sector C.A.P. The number of small landholdings generally falls over time, and they will be the first to go out of business (and have their lots gobbled up by the large agriculturalists).
Yes Wayne, fairly much “bang on”
The current impasse/hault is because of a failure for Government to comprehend to full picture. Each farm is unique when it comes to the environment and should have individual assessments. The left hand of Government says NO NO too complicated.However the right hand of Government says yes each farm is unique and each shall have a farm specific fresh water plan. Now is not a major to extend that plan to incorporate an analysis of the carbon impact of eah farm. But hey why doesnt the Government run with this proposition?
Because many farms sheep aand beef in particular will.net carbon sinks not net emitters. Thus due to be paid not taxed.
Now the realization of this AND its impact on the carbon trading market has brought both farm emisson charges and carbon farming to a grinding.hault.
Ill concieved, poorly implemented, now all on hold!
Is the world heating up due to increased CO2 levels? Maybe, I don’t know. But let’s assume it is.
So, what’s your plan to fix it?
Well duh, the answer is obviously destroy our entire economy and way of life while everyone else just keeps on doing what they’re doing.
Is Tory Whanau the green mayor going to stop importing Wellington’s beach from the South Island with all this end of days climate calamity ? What’s the carbon and environmental footprint of that worth?
Why not?
Don’t worry, I know – because it’s scientifically meaningless to destroy our farming, but sacrifices made to the climate gods must always be by someone else, especially your political opponents.
Very true Martyn. Given that the American empire’s military emits more CO2 than our dairy industry- an industry that produces actually useful products, rather than murdering innocent people and raping and killing little girls in Japanese-occupied Ryukyu and American-occupied Hawai’i, shouldn’t we start by purchasing weapons to sink American terror ships to the bottom of the ocean?
I invite all the naysayers to come visit hell! Next week would be good. Expecting 47-48 Celsius on Wednesday.