Scoop: The game is up. It’s time to dump the ETS

Kevin Campbell, ACT party associate spokesperson on Climate Change, says it’s time for the National party to show some spine and come clean about the ETS.

“John Key must accept the patently obvious, that the science surrounding climate change is as settled and credible as climate review panel chair Peter Dunne’s hairdo,” says Campbell.

“At a cost of $2-3,000 per year per family plus the loss of over 20,000 jobs per annum, the economic cost to the New Zealand taxpayer is far too high, for no atmospheric benefit. As the rest of the world backs off carbon trading at breakneck speed the introduction of such a scheme in NZ would be electoral suicide.

“The Green’s and Labour can bleat all they like about carbon dioxide and global warming being the greatest threat to mankind, but that claim is pure fantasy and they know it, the truth is that carbon is not a pollutant and never has been. Nor has the planet displayed any attempts to warm up during the last decade, in spite of rising carbon dioxide levels. The game is up.
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“Heads should roll at NIWA, starting with Dr. David Wratt, our head climate scientist responsible for ensuring the public is kept informed and up-to-date on climate and weather issues. Wratt has promoted the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change policy line relentlessly, even though there has been growing scientific evidence and data to the contrary for several years.

“Time and again environmental alarmists have bombarded our media, with article after article, of blatantly inaccurate global warming scaremongering, orchestrated with only one aim in mind, to create the impression that the scientific world is a united majority, that man made climate change is real and catastrophic without drastic human intervention. Fortunately, the opposite is true.
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“Of course it’s right and good to be clean and green, to preserve the environment and our ecosystem, to make sure that we leave the planet in as good a condition as we found it, but that does not include deceiving or manipulating the general public for political gain.