New Zealand, Garth George: Eight more reasons to dump Clark

The reasons, in no particular order, are:

1. The ill-conceived and unnecessary Emissions Trading Bill, which has been rammed through the House in the dying days of this Administration.

This is one of the biggest rorts ever perpetrated on mankind because, as hundreds of eminent meteorological, environmental and geological scientists have pointed out lately, for the past three years satellite-measured average global temperatures have been declining.

They say that is leading to increasing scepticism that the call to sacrifice living standards to "save the planet" is just political spin designed to persuade the public to accept green taxes.

Given the record low winter temperatures and massive snowfalls across both hemispheres this year, they say, the hypothesis of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of dangerous, human-caused global warming has become unsustainable.

John Key promises that National will amend the bill promptly when in government next year. He would be much better to dump the whole thing, based as it is on discredited "science" more than a decade old, and start again.

Because the only people who will suffer as a result of this legislation are the long-suffering public who will pay more for everything from petrol to bread as carbon credit traders, governments among them, rip us off for millions.