Owen Jennings: Farmers Deserve Better

My first farm was mainly old sand dunes with thirty to fifty mm’s of good soil on the tops.  We farmed cows and pigs, collected the manure and spread it on the ridges.  Within a few years we built the soil humus to 200 to 300mm’s.  We called it humus or topsoil. Today, we call it “carbon”.

In fact, we built thousands of tonnes of carbon all taken from atmosphere.  It was a ratio of 8:1 – it took eight tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere to build one tonne of carbon in the soil. We call it ‘sequestering’.  It all happens via photosynthesis and the carbon cycle you learnt at school.  CO2 in the atmosphere gets taken in by plants, animals eat plants and burp methane back into the atmosphere that eventually becomes CO2 that the next lot of plants need.

NZCPR Newsletter: Labour's Deliberate Deception

“There is this huge fraction of the population that has been brainwashed into thinking climate change is an existential threat to the planet… They are being deceived.” – Princeton University Emeritus Professor of Physics William Happer, former director at the US Department of Energy, at a hearing of Congress in 2023.

Over recent years there’s been a noticeable increase in alarmist climate change news coverage around the time of the United Nations’ annual “Conference of Parties”. This international talkfest attracts tens of thousands of climate activists from all over the world, who jet in to discuss how to reduce human emissions of carbon dioxide.