Comments on: Flourish commerce, and let the country live http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2009/12/flourish-commerce-and-let-the-country-live/ Taking the heat out of global warming Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:08:07 +1200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Richard http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2009/12/flourish-commerce-and-let-the-country-live/comment-page-1/#comment-20843 Richard Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:48:18 +0000 http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/?p=2329#comment-20843 Wealth-sapping, what a good word for it. There's surely no conspiracy behind the global warming fiasco, so it is a mystery just how thousands of people tolerated the list of defects you outline — and that's just in New Zealand. The AGW theory cannot survive a real examination so we're grateful that you and your party had the courage to challenge the science. It gave the sceptical questions a vital prominence. Wealth-sapping, what a good word for it. There’s surely no conspiracy behind the global warming fiasco, so it is a mystery just how thousands of people tolerated the list of defects you outline — and that’s just in New Zealand. The AGW theory cannot survive a real examination so we’re grateful that you and your party had the courage to challenge the science. It gave the sceptical questions a vital prominence.

]]> By: Rodney Hide http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2009/12/flourish-commerce-and-let-the-country-live/comment-page-1/#comment-20842 Rodney Hide Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:56:35 +0000 http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/?p=2329#comment-20842 We had two problems: the first was that examining the science was dropped from the terms of reference -- apart from ACT, all political parties agreed the "science was settled" (yeah right!); and the second was that the committee resolutely refused to consider any policy option other than the wealth-sapping ETS. There has been no testable science; no proper policy development -- just an endless mantra and denigration of anyone with a question. Rodney Hide We had two problems: the first was that examining the science was dropped from the terms of reference — apart from ACT, all political parties agreed the “science was settled” (yeah right!); and the second was that the committee resolutely refused to consider any policy option other than the wealth-sapping ETS.

There has been no testable science; no proper policy development — just an endless mantra and denigration of anyone with a question.

Rodney Hide

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