Helen Mandeno: Current Concerns down on the Farm

My family has a problem. We have sheep and cattle on our farm that emit methane. We are told regularly we will have to cut our emissions. If we don’t, the bill will be bigger than we can afford. The threat forced us to do some reading. We had been told all scientists agree – methane is a very big problem. But we studied the issue and found something very different. The latest science surprised us, even concerned us, leading us into a tough dilemma.

What should we do?

We are fighters. We do our homework. We work from a basis of facts and truths. We have to know how stuff works – that is why we are farming and how we farm. It is the only way to be successful – stay up to date with technology and follow the latest science.

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.

NZCPR Newsletter: Labour's Climate Scandal

New Zealand is officially in a recession. The Stats NZ figures released last week confirmed two quarters of negative growth – a fall of 0.1 percent in the three months ended March, following a fall of 0.7 percent in the December quarter.

This contraction is at odds with the Reserve Bank’s forecast of 0.3 percent growth - leading to the question of whether their interest rate increase, which started in October 2021 and has led to the present 14-year high, has been too aggressive.

In 2017 Labour inherited a “rock star” economy. It deteriorated sharply in 2020 as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s “world leading” harsh lockdowns and strict border closures took effect. The post-lockdown borrowing and spending that flooded the economy with easy money and created runaway inflation was unprecedented.