Lets be clear. The Select Committee review of emmissions trading is a waste of money and a broken election promise on the part of National.
National was quite emphatic before the election that the ETS would not be repealed, that emissions trading would go ahead, and certainly that "the scientific aspects of climate change" were no longer up for discussion by New Zealand politicians.
We appear to be back to square one, at least if the select committee Terms of Reference in the confidence and supply agreement are final, or if Murial Newman gets her way. Here she is in the NBR spouting the "warming stopped in '98" canard and calling for a select committee review "of the science". As if scientists were not continually engaged in reviewing the scientific aspects of climate change!
It's breathtaking that ACT want to hear "competing views on the scientific aspects of climate change from internationally respected sources" when pretty much every scientific association in the world, including our own Royal Society of New Zealand, has carried out a careful review of the science and concluded that anthropogenic global warming is real.
I challenge ACT to find an internationally respected source to disagree. (And no, Thatcher-era UK cabinet ministers don't count. I'm interested in a scientifically respected source.)
In any case everyone is in agreement on this point so write a letter to John Key already.
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Maybe you should send your politicians over here to experience a proper singaporean style "brainwash" where even little school kids already have to chant 'refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle' :)
... and of course make your analogue of the ministry of environment (http://app.mewr.gov.sg) set up a national climate change commissariat.... ah I mean committee :) (http://www.nccc.gov.sg)
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