DTNZ: Trump: Climate Change the “greatest con job ever perpetrated”

U.S. President Donald Trump delivered a blistering rebuke of global climate action during his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, dismissing climate change as “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.”

His remarks came as world leaders prepared for a UN climate summit focused on accelerating the shift to “clean energy”.

Dr Eric Crampton: Talk of meeting Paris target of 1.5C is hot air

The United Nations Environmental Programme’s latest Emissions Gap Report was called “No more hot air … please!”

Yesterday, I joined a panel at the Climate Change & Business Conference to talk about New Zealand’s Nationally Determined Contribution – our NDC. Under the Paris Agreement, countries must produce targets for emission reductions, set policies consistent with their targets, and report on their progress. Those targets, chosen by each country, are their Nationally Determined Contribution toward reducing global warming.

Cam Slater: Luxon Wets Himself Again as Seymour Calls to Ditch the Paris Farce

David Seymour has it spot on, as usual. The ACT leader is pushing for New Zealand to pull out of the Paris Agreement unless it is serious overhauled to allow for realistic emissions targets. He says the deal is broken, with net-zero goals that ignore science and our country’s realities. Those targets are hammering households, businesses and farmers, forcing good people off the land, gutting regions and jacking up prices for food, power and everything else we make. Seymour wants reform, a revisit of our emissions plans and a split-gas approach like Uruguay uses for methane. Fair call, I say.

Kerre Woodham: The realities of leaving the Paris Agreement

ACT Party Leader David Seymour has set the cat among the pigeons, or the Huntaway among the cattle, by calling for New Zealand to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement is a pact that’s part of the UN's framework convention on climate change, which started in 1992 with the Rio Earth Summit. The main goal of the Paris Agreement is to keep long-term global temperatures from warming 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times, and if not that, then well below 2 degrees Celsius by slashing planet-warming emissions from coal, oil, and gas. It's not working, the numbers are still too high, but who knows what they would have been had the Paris Agreement not been in place.

Pee Kay: Farting Against Thunder

The Earth’s Climate is always changing. It has done since its formation. Didn’t we all learn that in high school geography? Well, maybe until the green zealots infiltrated our education system!

The Sahara Desert is one of the driest deserts on earth and almost uninhabited. But it wasn’t always that way. It once was a fertile, well-watered land.

Just as Greenland wasn’t called Greenland because it was covered in ice and snow!

Professor John Raine: Balancing the climate narrative - The science is not settled

The 23rd July 2025 USA Department of Energy (DoE) Report, “A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate” [1], authored by five eminent scientists, at last brings some balance back into official statements on climate change and humankind’s contribution to this. The USA DoE Report reviews the science around how anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions have affected, or will affect, climate in the USA, extreme weather events, and selected metrics of societal wellbeing.

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Groundswell will eventually be proven right about the Paris Agreement

I think in the end, Groundswell is gonna be proven right - but I don't think they're gonna get what they want right now and I don't think they should get what they want right now.

Because what they want is for New Zealand to pull out of the Paris Agreement.

Now, we cannot pull out of the Paris Agreement. At least, we can't pull out right now, right?

NZCPR Newsletter: The Lifeblood of Progress

Cheap, reliable energy is the lifeblood of progress. Yet as we approach winter, concerns are already being raised about the security of New Zealand’s electricity supplies.

Because of a lack of rain, our hydro-lakes are lower than they should be at this time of year, and there has already been talk of possible blackouts. While wind and solar energy can help, they are notoriously unreliable. A shortage of natural gas to run the Huntly back-up power generator, and a lack of local coal means more reliance on imported coal. 

NZCPR Newsletter: The Demise of the Paris Agreement

International commitment to the United Nations Paris Agreement is crumbling. Governments around the world are either rejecting or reducing their climate targets because the cost of compliance is so high they cannot be achieved without sacrificing living standards.

Matt Ridley: Trump takes on the Climatecrats

No one should mourn America’s withdrawal from the ridiculous Paris Agreement.

Donald Trump has pulled America out of the 2015 Paris Climate Accord for the second time. Bizarrely, like some dodgy insurance scam, the rules of the climatocracy say it takes a year to withdraw, so not till next winter America will be free of its obligations to reduce its own emissions.

Rodney Hide: Trump 2.0 Kicking Over the Swamp

President Trump promised to drain the swamp. He has turned it upside down, kicked it around, and is jumping on it.

His opponents are left defending fraud, waste and corruption, paper straws and deranged men hellbent on destroying female sports.

Mike's Minute: Is it time we pull out of Paris?

We adjusted our climate target, or one of our climate targets last week.

Which in and of itself is part of the whole climate debate malaise. There are so many targets involving Paris, or not involving Paris, or timelines.

JC: Vain Posturing Puts NZ in Real Peril

This is not my headline. It comes from an article by Leo McKinstry in the English newspaper International Express. It had UK in the heading, not NZ but the headline could well apply here, which is why I have used it. The article is essentially about the nonsensical net zero policy.

The article centres on Ed Miliband who is the energy secretary in the recently elected Labour Government. As McKinstry points out, Miliband’s neurotic attachment to the net-zero agenda is driving up energy prices, increasing business costs and undermining economic competitiveness.

Barry Brill: Will taxpayers be liable for Ardern’s vanity project?

Following my article HERE regarding ex-PM Ardern’s $30 billion donation, the NZ Herald has a story by Thomas Coughlan under the heading of: “Inside Treasury’s fight to keep $23b climate cost off the books”.

Both accounts refer to the Labour Cabinet’s extraordinary 2021 NDC (Nationally-determined Contribution) which promised not only to reduce New Zealand’s emissions by 47 Mt during 2021-2030 but also to buy 143 Mt of foreign carbon credits at the same time.

Owen Jennings: Critical questions

A number of critically important questions have been raised in recent discussions I have had with farmers about their greenhouse gas emissions. They deserve answers. The mainstream media ignore them preferring to bag the farming community saying they are getting off lightly and are not meeting their responsibilities.

Stuart Smith: The Aim vs the Outcomes

The prime minister is delivering on her ambition to lead the world in pricing agricultural emissions by announcing the Government’s proposal to levy farmers for their emissions.

 
It is ironic that the one thing she may deliver on will put us in breach of Article 2.1b of the United Nations Paris Agreement: that food production must not be threatened.

The Paris Agreement took effect in New Zealand in 2020 when food security was a third-world issue; today, however, it is much more widespread and therefore, even more important today than it was in 2020.

Owen Jennings: Critical questions

A number of critically important questions have been raised in recent discussions I have had with farmers about their greenhouse gas emissions. They deserve answers. The mainstream media ignore them preferring to bag the farming community saying they are getting off lightly and are not meeting their responsibilities.

Question 1. Why is Article 2 (b) of the Paris Agreement ignored when it states clearly that countries should not reduce food production in their pursuit of emission goals? Proposals that will reduce production by 15% or more violate the Agreement.

Sterling Burnett: Paris Panic - Governments Fail to Meet Their Climate Commitments

Political leaders and media personalities are fond of saying climate change poses an existential threat to humans and the planet. The weight of scientific evidence doesn’t support this oft-made claim, and national governments around the globe seem to acknowledge this by their actions.

Despite what is reported almost daily in the mainstream media, data from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show no increase in extreme weather events as the Earth has modestly warmed over the past 150 years. In fact, the IPCC and NOAA data show cases of extreme cold spells, droughts, floods, heat waves, hurricanes, tornadoes, and wildfires have all declined modestly or remained relatively stable since the late 1870s.

Despite these irrefutable facts, leaders from nations around the world have signed multiple international agreements, the latest being the 2015 Paris climate agreement, intended to avert a supposedly pending climate disaster.

Dr H. Sterling Burnett: US out of Paris (for now) but nothing much has changed

As I write this on November 6, we still don’t know who will be the president of the United States in 2021. All the votes have not been counted yet, and accusations of voter fraud and irregularities have to be settled by the courts. One thing we do know for certain, though, is that as of now, the US is no longer a party to the Paris climate agreement. Per the terms of the agreement, America’s withdrawal from the accord became official on November 4.

In reality, the United States ceased to functionally participate in the Paris agreement after President Trump announced our withdrawal at a June 1, 2017 press conference at the White House Rose Garden. The invitation-only event was attended by numerous climate realists, including Joseph Bast, then-president of The Heartland Institute.

As a candidate for president, Trump vowed to take the United States out of Paris if he were elected because, he rightly argued, it was a bad deal for the American people.

Sterling Burnett: The Paris Climate Agreement Was Doomed Even Before the US Withdrawal

The Paris climate agreement is a bad deal for America, costing jobs in the United States and putting the country at a competitive disadvantage with our international competitors. By finalizing this starting process on November 4 of this year, President Trump kept his campaign promise to put America first.

“It is time to put Youngstown, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, along with many, many other locations within our great country before Paris, France,” Trump said at a 2017 Rose Garden event, which initially announced the intention to withdraw.

For America’s sovereignty and continued economic success, Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement is among the most consequential actions he has taken since being elected president.