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.
Before we examine the details of this momentous unravelling let’s remind ourselves of what we are dealing with.
Assertions that man-made global warming is responsible for catastrophic climate change do not stand up to scrutiny. It’s not that the world isn’t warming nor that global temperatures aren’t changing, its simply that the carbon emissions produced by humans are dwarfed by those produced by nature.
While around four percent of all carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is produced by human activity, it’s completely overshadowed by the ninety-six percent produced from natural sources such as the weathering of rocks, outgassing from oceans, volcanic eruptions, the decomposition of organic matter, and the respiration of all plant and animal life.
Contrary to what climate activists claim, carbon dioxide is not a dangerous pollutant – it is the gas responsible for life on earth. Through the magic of photosynthesis green plants use carbon dioxide to create the food that fuels all living things.
CO2 is described as a trace gas because it’s found in such minute quantities in the atmosphere: a mere 400 parts per million – levels that are amongst the lowest ever seen in the history of our planet.
While carbon dioxide does have a minor greenhouse effect – trapping some of the sun’s energy and preventing it from escaping back into space – that effect is logarithmic. That means that the higher the concentration of the gas in the atmosphere, the smaller the temperature increase.
In other words, it is mathematically impossible for CO2 to cause catastrophic warming – which is why concentrations of the gas in the atmosphere in the past have been many times higher than they are today.
During the Jurassic Period some 200 million years ago, CO2 levels were around 5 times higher causing plant growth to flourish to levels that could sustain larger species like the dinosaur. The highest recorded carbon dioxide concentrations at 7,000 parts per million – around 18 times higher than today – were found during the Cambrian Period, over 500 million years ago.
Buffeted by the vast forces of nature including the sun, wind, ocean currents, clouds and rain, our climate is constantly changing. At the present time, with permanent ice sheets at the North and South Poles, Planet Earth is in an interglacial period within an ice age.
It was only just over 700 years ago that the world entered the Little Ice Age, where temperatures fell between 1 and 2 degrees for almost 500 years. Before that, during the 400 years of the Medieval Warm Period, temperatures rose by 1 to 1.5 degrees.
At some stage in the future, the ice sheets will either expand to produce a cooler period, or they will shrink to introduce a warmer period – but whichever way it goes, as is evidenced by our 4-billion-year history, nature will call the shots.
While mankind’s impact on the climate is minute compared to the forces of nature, that hasn’t prevented socialists from using the threat of global warming to pursue their anti-business agenda. Capturing the narrative, they have convinced the media, academics, and politicians that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant that needs to be curbed.
Arguing that humans are annihilating the planet by farming cows and sheep for food and using fossil fuels to improve living standards, they not only target children, but ostracise and discredit as “climate deniers” anyone who dares to challenge their propaganda.
Faced with the escalating cost of green energy and a litany of false predictions, the public, however, have had enough.
This can be seen only too clearly in Germany – as the UK Sunday Times reports, “It is clear that the German election is part of a worldwide backlash against green policies. Recent elections in Austria, Belgium, Ireland and of course the US have seen incumbents with progressive climate policies booted out of government.”
The defeated German Chancellor had led a coalition with one of the most ambitious climate targets in the world: ‘climate neutrality by 2045’. But as the German economy struggled, Friedrich Merz, the leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union and the winner of the election claimed green policies went too far – that the economy must come first and that he would do politics “for the majority who can think straight… and not for any green and leftwing nutcases”.
In comparison, the Alternative for Germany party, which came second with its best ever election result, questioned the legitimacy of climate change and pledged to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. They claimed climate action in Germany had become too far-reaching and ‘ideological’ instead of ‘rational’, and they were highly critical of the expansion of wind power.
President Trump, of course, is leading the global charge against climate activism with his decision to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement: “It is the policy of my Administration to put the interests of the United States and the American people first in the development and negotiation of any international agreements with the potential to damage or stifle the American economy.”
An Executive Order was also issued to put an end to the creation of massive wind farms, including those offshore, on the basis that they not only degrade the natural environment, but through their intermittency, are unreliable and costly for consumers.
As Benny Peiser, the retiring director of the UK’s Global Warming Policy Foundation recently explained, “It’s clear now that people are much more concerned about the cost of Net Zero policies than about the potential of climate change. The climate alarm, although it hasn’t died down, is no longer trusted by huge chunks of the public. The climate scientists have overplayed their hands. They have basically caused so much partisanship, censorship and intimidation that they’ve lost the trust of the public.”
Smart politicians are acknowledging the change and refining their policies. In the UK, the Deputy Leader of the popular Reform Party, recently reminded a London audience of their plan to eliminate the massive climate millstone around the neck of the British economy: “We will scrap net stupid zero and do whatever it takes to bring down the cost of living.”
Echoing the US President’s “Drill, baby drill”, Reform is pledging to “unlock Britain’s vast oil and gas reserves”, “scrap energy levies”, and “recover the cost of subsidies from the renewables industry”.
With Britain’s attempts at “decarbonisation” leading to “de-industrialisation” with electricity prices soaring and manufacturers relocating offshore, Reform believes “Net zero is without question the greatest act of self-harm ever imposed on a nation by the people at Westminster.”
Unfortunately for New Zealand, our Coalition Government is continuing to support the UN’s de-industrialisation agenda even though our contribution to global emissions is not only infinitesimal but is based on lies.
The Net Zero objectives put in place by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and the Green Party’s Climate Minister James Shaw overstated the warming effect of the methane produced by livestock during digestion by a factor of four. At only 1.7 parts per million in the atmosphere, while methane has a slightly stronger warming potential than carbon dioxide, it also operates logarithmically, which means it has a miniscule impact on the climate.
Furthermore, the methane produced breaks down quickly into water and the carbon dioxide required to feed the grass that feeds the livestock as part of the ancient carbon cycle.
However, instead of correcting the overstated methane values that Labour retained to make our farmers look bad, the Coalition appears to be playing the same game.
In late January, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts, announced that New Zealand had lodged its second Nationally Determined Commitment to the Paris Agreement for the period 2026 to 2035 – raising the Ardern promise of cutting emissions by 50 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 to a 51 to 55 percent reduction by 2035. Since the Paris Agreement is a voluntary accord, with no sanctions for non-compliance, New Zealand was one of only a handful of countries that complied with the February 10 deadline. No doubt many of those countries that failed to deliver are having to re-consider their position in light of growing public hostility towards net-zero.
This week’s NZCPR Guest Commentator the convenor of the Methane Science Accord, Owen Jennings, a former Federated Farmers President and Member of Parliament, is highly critical of the Coalition’s approach:
“What was Climate Minister Watts thinking about ratcheting up New Zealand’s Greenhouse Gas reduction targets? Why is the Coalition making it worse?
“Over a $1.0 billion of New Zealand’s precious tax money has gone into trying to find answers to the so-called methane emissions’ problem. Now we’re committing to throwing another billion at this fictitious problem. We have built a whole industry around the emissions’ charade.
“The Coalition Government appointed an expert panel to look at the science on ruminant methane and reduction targets. They were pointed in the direction of new science that clearly says ruminant methane is not an issue, but they chose to ignore it.”
At least two of the Coalition leaders are, however, feeling the backlash.
Winston Peters says we should reconsider our commitment to the Paris Agreement: “We’ve got to seriously reconsider the position we’ve taken on Paris. How much is it going to cost us in a system of international responsibility that far too many countries are not part of. And how can we keep arguing that it’s good for the New Zealand people?”
David Seymour agrees: “There is a wider question of whether the Government of New Zealand should be committed to the Paris Accord when half of the world appears to be pulling out of it anyway… In the long term, New Zealand’s going have to have a serious question: can we achieve economic growth with the handbrake jammed up so hard?”
While supporters of Net Zero have long pushed the line that New Zealand cannot withdraw from Paris because of retaliation from our trading partners, that argument no longer holds water.
New Zealand’s major trading partners are China at almost 28 percent of total trade, United States and Australia at around 12 percent, and the European Union at 10 percent.
With China ignoring climate restrictions altogether, and now the US, that only leaves Australia and the EU. But with the main opposition parties in Australia planning to water down their Paris pledges ahead of their upcoming election, and the European Union now questioning their own commitment, there’s nothing to stop our Government from pulling out of Paris.
While the Coalition claims to be repairing the damage caused by the over-zealous approach of Labour and the Greens, some of what they are planning will make the situation worse.
Using the methane lie as justification, not only will even more of our productive farmland get turned into pine tree wastelands for carbon farming, but our farmers will end up being forced into using a range of technological “solutions” to reduce methane, including inhibitors, genetically modified grasses, and vaccines – all of which risk turning consumers away from New Zealand-produced meat and milk.
On top of that, the Coalition is establishing two new climate related regulatory regimes: the first to enable the building of offshore wind farms – at a time when other countries are turning against them because of the negative impact they have on the marine environment; and the second to support dubious carbon capture schemes.
Right now, China, India and Russia are all ignoring the Paris Agreement. President Trump is pulling the US out, and Argentina, Indonesia and possibly Canada – if there’s a change of government – are poised to follow. With the consensus in the EU crumbling, isn’t it time our Coalition Government put the national interest and wellbeing of New Zealanders first, and opted out of Paris as well?
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THIS WEEK’S POLL ASKS:
*Do you support the Coalition’s continuing commitment to the Paris Agreement?
*Poll comments are posted below.
*All NZCPR poll results can be seen in the Archive.
THIS WEEK’S POLL COMMENTS
| Virtue signalling fruit cakes | doug |
| It’s become quite clear to most rational people that the wool has been pulled over their eyes by the rabid socialists about the effect of human global CO2 emissions on the atmosphere causing climate change.bthis coalition government needs to wake up and wake up fast or it’s sure as hell going to lose the next election, and woe betide us all then when the rabid socialists get back in power. | Chris |
| Climate Change Garbage to be polite !! | Bevan |
| No definitely not | Bruce |
| It’s all a myth. You can’t beat mother nature | Jim |
| NO!!! Don’t they understand basic biology and how important CO2 is to life on earth? | Mark |
| best out of it | Gill |
| let nature take its course it knows best | adrian |
| Where are Jacinda and James? not here to be held accountable | DICK |
| Man made climate change is an absolute hoax and NZ must have nothing to do with the Paris Agreement | Graeme |
| It is an absolute waste of money to acheive nothing. | Warren |
| NZ contributes less than a gnat’s fart on the global stage in terms of emissions. China and India are running away with polluting the earth while we navel-gaze and self-flagellate to appease virtue signals and hand waving feel good politics. All the while poor and elderly people are paying the price with our winter energy costs. Enough is enough. | Michael |
| Blindly following in the footsteps of Jacinda Adern and James Shaw is simply stupidity. Wake up, Coalition government!!! | Lucy |
| Luxon’s targeting of ‘growth’ while still pursuing ridiculous emissions targets is an indicator of his stupidity, as the correlation between growth and the ability to harness reliable and affordable energy is clear. Targeting of methane is a simply a tactic by vegetarian greenie types who perceive this as a zero cost win for themselves. But as that’s far from zero cost for NZ-Inc., they will suffer reduced standard of living along with the rest of us from impacted agricultural productivity. | Tony |
| Step away, nothing more than a Ponzi scheme with carbon credits. | Paula |
| The Paris agreement is being pushed on us by the United nations who have been telling lies about climate change for years. Time to pull out of the Paris agreement and stop expensive climate mitigation experiments. | Colin |
| N.Z should not be supporting, anything that is led by wanna-be Napoleon/HATO war-monger ‘MACARONI’.. it looks like he wants to lead the NATO, tanks, on his mission to Moscow… we have ALL seen that movie before, it didn’t end well, when the tanks, rusted up… and ceased up in the Russian winter, but they want to have a re-play, they never learn!! | DAVID |
| Daresay the Paris Agreement news will get down to the retribalised country of New Zealand eventually and we’ll do something about it. Still think the Maori separation radicals plus myths are our main problem at this time | Monica |
| The climate alarmism narrative is built on a pack of lies, turning a vital plant food into a pollutant has to be the biggest brain washing of the century! | Caroline |
| I haven’t for a long time. It is obviously rubbish and, if nothing else, would certainly never have happened overnight as they would have us believe. It really is so obviously rubbish. I don’t see how anyone could believe it. | Adrienne |
| You make a valid point in your well researched column. | Murray |
| The only sensible way is to cancel the Paris agreement totally. | Bruce |
| Always was a lie, pull out, sooner the better, make NZ great again | Felix |
| I fail to see how giving billions of dollars to this ‘agreement’ will in any way help change the climate. The money is needed here for more urgent and real needs like Healthcare and healthy housing for everyone. | Jan |
| All the lies and properganda has been proven false. Why has our govt not pulled out ? We would all be better off. | Kevin |
| Our government is either uninformed or blindly following the U.N. | Harvey |
| How could they? Why must we martyr ourselves time and again? There is zero benefit to New Zealand from net zero. | Sheila |
| Any party that continues with the Paris accord and wastes taxpayer money on NON productive slush funds while urgent local needs are sidelined will NOT be recieving this families collective vote. | Richard |
| Common sense should prevail and look into the real facts that man’s input is infinitesimal. and all we are doing is costing us. | John |
| It is all a big con that CO2 is ruining the atmosphere. It is true that there is climate change with increases in average temperatures, but it is mainly simply nature causing this and part of a natural cycle. It is an absolute shame that too much of good farmland is being planted out in pine trees. | Keith |
| I ticked yes in error – did not read the question correctly – so hope this ‘2nd’ tick registers. | Ann |
| National must grow the Economy. By following Labor down this path they will struggle to do so | Glenn |
| When are we going to learn? | David |
| I have been pointing out the stupidity of current climate policy but the majority of Kiwis have willful blindness | Stanley |
| And never have | john |
| It was and still is a big CON forget it and look after our own before we spend another dollar. | Warren |
| A destructive economic meme not based on science | jon |
| Stop wasting money | Alan |
| The Paris Agreement is a result of a one sided hypothesis as regards to Global warming. It’s driven world wide by the negative power of hysteria. Our current political rulers are, like all those who have gone before them, just plainly pusillanimous. While the subject of Global Warming cannot be properly and openly debated by those from both sides, then New Zealand needs to tread with much wisdom and to make its decisions based toward more of a pragmatic outlook. We should never be jumping off the cliff just to appease those who have the Global Warming sickness. We can have the same concerns without being arrogant. We need to ensure that we take the best path without committing suicide. | Garry. |
| We are fools for being involved in this scam | Janette |
| Its insane to be giving away our precious funds for fictitious climate change cause. When these funds could be spent producing more food on farms and improving infrastructure | Peter |
| Get out of the scam. | Mike |
| Our Government is ignoring science. | John |
| Can’t believe they have renewed it and increased it. Complete scam,as is proving to be it turns out. Pull out of it asap. The National party won’t have courage to do it. | Peter |
| We must leave for our own good. No question. | Willam |
| Rip off | Terry |
| Let’s get real. | Tony |
| Agree entirely with Muriel Newman’s assessment. | Ronnie |
| Dr Muriel Newman’s summary of the science and sense is “spot on” in its entirety. So. called “Carbon emissions” are irrelevant as the atmosphere already is “saturated” (as Physicists understand and apply that term). Climate Alarmists would tax another Greenhouse – water vapour (being clouds, mist, haze, fog, erc – and being far more abundant than all other Greenhouses Gases combined) if they could tax all rain! | Alan |
| We also have to change the education model to stop children enjoying their time rather than worrying when the world will end. | Ian |
| It’s a complete waste of time and money. I’m not suggesting we start fracking or drilling but we are already doing a good job looking after the environment so they should withdraw and remove the targets previously agreed | Cath |
| It’s a load of BS. | Astrid |
| How could NZ make a scrap of difference when the major polluters China and America are not participating? It is hurting the NZ economy in a futile effort to change the world. Nonsensical thinking. | terrence |
| I don’t support, any of the EU/NATO Warmongers, policies, that want to continue with NATO/WEF/UN, LONG-TERM WAR, in Europe,on Russia, by the ZIO PROXY DICTATOR, in UKRAINE. N.Z should cancel ALL treaties and UN/WEF agreements we have signed up for, we need to remain NEUTRAL! | DAVID |
| They are idiots if they do so, disciples of the WEF & UN scammers. They are harming the citizens of this country and committing economic treason. Unbelievable stupidity on the part of the National led government. | Allan |
| https://www.newstarget.com/2025-03-07-sea-levels-historic-lows-climate-alarmists-wrong.html | Peter |
| Scrap the damn scam: “whichever way it goes, as is evidenced by our 4-billion-year history, nature will call the shots” and the British Reform Party is correct: “scrap net stupid zero”! | Peter |
| The Paris Agreement will bankrupt our already crippled country. | Adele |
| What a waste of time it has been.Why can’t they see the false reasoning. | David |
| The Paris agreement has always been an unrealistic goal. Now it seems to be becoming more obvious to a greater number of people . | Marty |
| Absolutely pigs in the trough stuff. We are being sucked in by a lot of wealthy economy’s who do not seem to have a genuine target. | Owen |
| In a single word: No. This coalition administration is turning out to be extremely disappointing in many ways. End this nonsense now. | Gavin |
| There is no need it’s a lie! | Dominique Greenslade |
| WE should get out of it now, and agriculture should never have been included. Just delusional to think that we should lead the world in this nonsense | Graham |
| Get rid of it | Pam |
| Count how many have exited it and how many more are very likely to follow | jay |
| No no no. Common sense please | Beveley |
| CO2 is not the driver of climate change | Tony |
| The UN is full of hot air. It’s dogma not science. Without CO2 we would all be dead. | Bruce |
| Not as it is presently framed. That said, we all should minimise polluting the air, water and earth as far as is reasonably possible | Peter |
| Waste of money! | Andrew |
| If NZ continues to down this woke ideological climate change nonsense, the country will go broke. Withdrawing from the Paris agreement as well as building wind farms now, would be sound and rational decision. | Tony |
| How to get the message through the blockheaded PM is the problem. And what the h l is wrong the all the rest of the Nats? Too cowed???? | Helen |
| Time to abandon the commitment to the Paris accord | Geoff |
| The Paris agreement will sent the country broke and make everything more expensive. Hard enough in this country to survive. Its all a hoax anyway. This govt needs to stop all the gravy trains. | Allan |
| We must get out. Gone by lunchtime! | Mark |
| Politicians, here being forced to take sides, on’ serious issues’ that are starting to divide and separate Kiwis as a country and a people,2025 starting to look like division bell year! REAL CHANGES COMING! | DAVID |
| It’s astounding but to be expected that our representatives in Parliament are blinded to the obvious truths about the changes in climate. They have been so indoctrinated by the so-called expert science that they cant see the wood for the trees. Much like Siouxsie Wiles and Michael Baker with covid, spun a rhetoric for absolute control by the government. | Jo |
| Climate change is, and always has been, an ideology perpetuated by the elitist radical greenies. It appears they want to take us back to the dark ages – more fool them, and more fool the rest of us, if we follow their radical agenda! | John |
| It’s ridiculous – we should pull out now | Ross |
| NO – It’s a total scam, designed through faulty reasoning to extract money from countries to give to other countries – redistribution of wealth. Dreamt up by the looney left | Carolyn |
| We never hear from the media about what scientists are saying about non Global warming only scare mongers what they are saying | Trinda |
| It’s always been a lie, honestly , farting cows destroying the planet ???? yeah right!!!!!!!!!!! | Brian |
| Show us the cost benefit analysis! I doubt there is one. If the largest global polluters are not on board why would our politicians sell us out like they have? | Joanne |
| Madness. No famers, No food. I think people better get their heads around that one. I hate all these pine plantations, weed trees. | Deb |
| Climate change is a farse. A way for rich people to get richer. Paying for pollution doesnt make less pollution. The fact that native forests arent in the calaculation tells you how much of a farce it is | Natalie |
| Refusing to pull out of the “Paris Agreement” just demonstrates that Christopher Luxon is one of the UN/WEF Globalist scammers. Luxon should resign from Parliament (perhaps for unspecified “health reasons”) so that NZF can win the resulting by-election in Botany. Then Luxon’s health could miraculously improve and Peters could send him to London to replace Goff 🙂 | Sue |
| we are going to BORROW 48 BILLION dollars & GIVE it very rich people offshore, for NOTHING in return??? The climate scam is the modern version of the Emperor’s new clothes & the VOTING public a screaming he is naked | Tracy |
| Man made climate warming is a pack of lies and stupidity brought about by globalists to destory the worlds economy | Wally |
| It is sheer stupidity and economic vandalism. My respect for National and especially Luxon dwindles daily. | Alan |
| All we’re doing is bankrupting our country for this fraudulent climate change hoax.China are building new coal fired power stations daily,so why can’t we.PM,the sooner you withdraw NZ from this Paris Agreement BS the better.All you are doing is making China rich and the west poor.Follow President Trump’s lead, he’s on to it. | Malcolm |
| Our continued tie to a scheme that is akin to believing in Fairies and Taniwha’s is astounding. Once the whole house of cards really starts crumbling watch the woke folks suddenly remember their science and disown the whole charade. The significant boost to our own security and defence, let alone the further allocations to health and education that could result from the ‘savings’ by withdrawing immediately, justify it on purely economic grounds without having to try and convince the pseudoscience believers. | Francis |
| Climate change caused by CO2 is a farce and a lie beyond belief. | Gordon |
| It is just another “vehicle” for stealing money from citizens. As you have clearly stated there is no such thing as climate change because of CO 2 | Noel |
| It is a croc of shit and it stinketh!! | Mervyn |
| too much “Infinity” Science involved | Lionel |
| ASOLUTELY NOT! Anyone with half a brain could tell you that zero carbon emissions means zero people and animals and plants for that matter, to produce carbon! This is another SCAM for rich people to get richer and keep the true wealth generators, that’s us ordinary working people, in debt slavery! | peter |
| Should never have been in it particularly agriculture, Ardern and Shaw committed treason when they did that. | Tony |
| Ardern’s virtue signalling has been caught out by real science. Time for common sense to prevail. | Wietske |
| Ridiculous!! | Colin |
| The sooner we get more ministers like Winston and Seymour to put a stop of luxon and the nutter greens giving in to the corrupt un paris crap and pull out completely that money could be put into our failing health system for the benefit of all NEW ZEALANDERS not the thieves at the un or this govt. | Richard |
| The standards are unobtainable | Denis |
| NZ cannot afford it. Also, it is all fabricated nonsense | Carol |
| we cant afford it | Gwynne |
| Get NZ out of the Paris Agreement, out of the corrupt UN, out of the corrupt WHO, and every other country destroying organisation. Luxon is a failure. | Carole |
| It was always a dumb scheme perpetrated by the small players to screw the stupid socialists. | Rob |
| The commitment is SOLELY for vote getting. Alas, too many Kiwis have fallen for the lie and are emotionally attached to gettig rid of fossil fuels. Just like the nuclear stance, it’s embedded in the DNA. Wait a generation and once the cost of livign is so high, that sentiment will change. It will be awhile…. | Hilary |
| Utter madness and could be one of the final nails in the coffin of our agricultural sector!! | Caroline |
| Wake up idiots in this coalition govt. | David |
| Animal Farm | bit ovver |
| They need to take advice from farmers and other countries who are all pulling out. | Rosemary |
| There is no point in NZ putting more effort into reducing CO2 emissions than the major players – USA, India, China, etc. NZ’s emissions are so small that even if they were reduced to zero it is likely the effect on the planet could not even be measured. Sensible efforts to reduce all types of pollution are worthwhile but going to extremes when many other countries make little effort is just going to ruin the NZ economy. | Gary |
| It’s part of the insanity that has consumed the world. | Paul |
| We need to opt out now and invest our money in areas that benefit New Zealanders, e.g. Health, Education, Agriculture. | J |
| Everyone is ditching it. No point in it continuing. | May |
| We need to pull out of the scam that is the Paris climate agreement. What is wrong with Luxon. The greatest polluters are China and India and neither of them have signed up. Sorry Greens , your dreams need to be on their way. Try thinking about the economy and the welfare of our country. | Dianne |
| There is no scientific evidence to justify it. NZ can’t make a scrap of difference anyway. We must acknowledge the decisions made by the major nations. New Zealand will cripple its economy if it continues on this unproven unscientific experimental path. We can’t afford to be guinea pigs just testing our resilience to huge expenditure and crippling our primary industries. This government needs to act now to stop this nonsense and withdraw from the Paris Accord. | terrence |
| It should have been put to binding referendum | Jim |
| When will any Government realise that you can’t have fixed goals set for the future if you continue to foster uncontrolled population growth by endless immigration of up to 100,000 people each year??? | Jim |
| It can no longer be justified. Needs a new ‘most likely scenario’ cost-benefit aalysis. Or – as Chloe would say – should be evidence-based. Just taking in all relevant factors! | Necia |
| Luxon is the problem and until he goes we’ll remain committed to the false belief that man can control nature. | Roger |
| We should have pulled out ages ago in line with the true academic situation. | Marga |
| End it by lunch time. | Evan |
| NO NO NO | Brenda |
| BS from the beginning | Bill |
| NO EVERYONE SHOULD EMAIL WINSTON.luxon will never do anything so he,s a waist of time & its time HE WAS DUMPED as he,s loosing the trust of nearly everyone.SIMON WATTS is another one people should email & tell him NOT ttrust GREEN ACTIVISTS BUR DO HIS OWN HOMEWORK & LOOK AT ALL THE OVERSEAS COUNTRIES THAT HAVE WOKEN UP & PULL OUT OF PARIS AGREEMENT. | Cindy |
| The revised targets would kill NZ. | Ian |
| Luxon needs to get his head out of the sand, man-made climate change is being exposed for fraud it is. Net zero policy’s are destroying economy’s all for nothing…… | David |
| It is all a scam | Sandra |
| We can not afford to be involved in this silliness. Countries that pollute should not be rewarded or assisted by other Countries. | Gayle |
| Dead in the water. | Ken |
| Absolutey not shpuld have never commited to it in the first place. | Steve |
| Many trying to compete with or change Mother Nature is the height of “chutzpah”. | J Samuel |
| It is almost all a lie, perpetuated by the technically-ignorant Greenies. | Mike |
| We are only a small country in size and numbers | Elaine |
| Our woke governments are full of thick politicians easily led by corrupt bureacrats to serve the globalists evil agendas. What else is new? | Alan |
| The whole narrative is just that – fabricated nonsense which does not stand up to scientific scrutiny. Clearly the motive behind it all is political and we currently have a weak leadership team which won%u2019t make the only logical decision – pull out. | Bernie |
| Time we ditched this madness and come to our senses. Absolutely destroying NZs economy as well as farming and agriculture. We’ve been committed to massive sums of money by these Muppets | Lawrie |
| God help us. We’ve jumped from the frying pan into the fire with National. Luxon’s toast. | Mark |
| NEVER HAVE | Noel |
| Time to ditch, the ‘Slavery plantation Feudal dream,of the Globalists, ALL treaties and defence treaties,agreements that bind us to the Inter-national war mongers, adopt positive NEUTRALITY! | DAVID |
| only fools will support this agreement | Carl |
| Wake up coalition | Brett |
| We must oppose the glObalist pupPets | mike |
| A lot of money NZ can’t afford so until the entire world gets on board with it it’s just a waste of money | Dianne |
| No but National seem to be a left leaning party now. Not what I voted for. | mike |
| Its about killing us off,enabling poverty and all the things that come with a lower standard of living for we the PLEBS not the elites, they want this | Wayne |
| The intelligent countries have already dropped the scam | fred |
| No and I never have | sonia |
| What an absolute load of rubbish this whole climate change debacle is. And how stupid can a government get – to sign onto something that could cost us everything – based on speculation, unproven theories and, well, the word of very ignorant and foolish little girl. No surprises though. Our MP’s just seem to be trying to outdo each other in the field of stupidity and foolishness. | Christine |
| We disagree with Simon Watts. Nzs trade partners are already pulling out, NZ is a productive e conomy that needs our Ag to tow us out of the mire of net stupid zero. | Nikki |
| Climate Change insanity on steroids. Gene technology idiocy. What’s happened to this country?? | Gill |
| Show me the scientific tests which prove that atmospheric temperature changes are caused soley by CO2 and CH4. What about the other effects such as cloud cover, variations in the sun’s radiant output and earth’s orbit etc? | Warren |
| Opt out it is costing us too much | Laurel |
| It’s false science. | Alan and Denise |
| It was based on poor science, probably fraudulently created. | boud |
| We should have sustainability focus and reduce pollution. But not via the Paris agreement. | John |
| NZ is not in a financial position to be gifting tax payers hard earned dollars to off shore enterprises for distribution under the pretence of unproven climate change cause. | Rex |
| No | Kylie |
| Absolutely not. Its about time for our so called PM to show some gumption and leadership and dump this climate rubbish. What a huge con job those climate conferences have been. We need that money to stay in NZ. Can’t believe they increased the cost above what Shaw proposed. Ex PMs need to keep their noses out of government. They have done enough damage to this country. | Peter |
| Get out of it now. We should never have signed it. | Colin |
| This whole climate alarmism is a monumental scam. Bernie Madoff would have been proud to have dreamt it up. It’s all lies, hence so avidly supported/promoted by our recent “out-of-gas” Prime Minister and the obnoxious Greens — they know that when the sheople wake up to this scam their only reason for being (other than recently adopted racist policies) will vanish and they will be dowm the toilet where they belong. | Philip |
| They are being conned at the cost to the nation | Gaire |
| NZ needs to come out from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change NOW. It is a waste of taxpayers money. | Leonie |
| Its high time the Current Govt realise that continuing with the Zero target or any target, perhaps no target, otherwise NZ economy will be seriously damaged | Peter |
| We need to support our farmers and stop overseas companies using our good arable land for planting trees for their carbon credits – the trees sour the soil for food production | Terry |
| let us just work on our own air pollution | Richard |
| I do not believe that grass-root members of the National party are behind their party leaders. | AndyE |
| It’s a scam. Cut ourselves loose from it. | Chris |
| We need our government to have the balls to pull out of the agreement and to concentrate on what is important to. and they should start with with shredding the treaty | william |
| New Zealand should follow what every one else is doing .PULL OUT. Hve some BALLS | Rob |
| Biggest scam ever perpetrated on gullible western politicians . | Keith |
| Get out of it, it’s a scam costing this country millions !!!! | Mike |
| Pull out of the UN, and it’s subsidiaries WHO, WEF etc. now and put New Zealanders first | Robyn |
| It must be done with urgency | Nigel |
| Muriel. Your letter is full of inaccuracies. It is very misleading. When the carbon dioxide was at 7000 all the ice melted and sea level was 200 foot higher! The CO2 produced by humans is at least 33%. The CO2 has risen from 280 to 430 ppm solely from fossil fuels. You really need to talk to a climate scientist. Barry Brills article about methane was completely incorrect. | John Hyndman |
| We shout stick to our knitting and keep out of it. In global terms we are small fry that need to sort our own stuff out as a first priority. | rod |
| Left green workerism ignores the reality that climate has always changed & always will. | Dane |
| Total fraud, and a costly one. | Bryan |
| This is utterly ridiculous continuing regardless of other countries now pulling out of this cash grab. | Nigel |
| Staying in the stupid Paris Agreement is a recipe for poverty on a huge scale. | Karen |
| No don’t support the Government’s commitment to the Paris agreement. I think the world is slowly waking up to this ridiculous agreement. It amazes me that our politicians aren’t willing to adjust their way of thinking but continue to follow the rest of the lemmings (over the cliff). There is alot of very knowledgeable people that are leaders on the subject that are either ignored or whose view does not meet the narrative. Businesses are being put under pressure to meet targets that are based on misinformation. I think we need to stop listening to the doom brigade and introduce some common sense. | Rob |
| It’s a cult and a scam, enriching a few and destroying western economies, with zero impact on the weather, now and in the future. | Roger |
| ABSOLUTELY! | Martin |
| My question has always been – what happened in the ice age?? Climate change??? Yes, we are going through change but for me it is NATURE | Ngaire |
| From when CC Paris Accord was introduced many governments ago, we were informed that it won’t cost us anything!!!! At the time regardless of government rectoric I decided it was another form of taxation and well I’m not wrong!!! It’s costing billions and the environment is still the same. | Anita |
| Absolute misuse of funds and effort. Get rid of all ‘green’ policies. And especially carbon credits – the biggest con of all. | Graham |
| Hell NO. | Kevin |
| It is ludicrous that NZ keeps on shooting itself in the foot over climate change. Any effect NZ has on the world’s climate is miniscule | Geoffrey |
| When will this Government actually use scientific logic to ascertain the true impact of this widely misinformed climate change rhetoric- Out biggest export earner our primary sector is being hammered by a politically idealogue led crusade- why are so many of our trading partners leaving the Paris agreement, answer they are tired of the socialalist led propaganda and the demise of the worlds economies by groups who have an spouted non scientific idealogly that will destroy what we have today. | John |
| I totally agree with what you are saying Watt should be sacked for ;leading us up the garden path and Thanks God jacinda has departed these shores | Tim |
| It is a total waste of tax payers money. We all know that this has been bullshit for years | Owen |
| No no no no no! | Joe |
| After independent review | Martin |
| What’s wrong with them? Can’t they see for themselves? I’m VERY disappointed with this National Party and Chris Luxon refuses to accept the fact that there is no Carbon emergency. David Seymor seems to be the only one that is capable of thinking strait . C’mon on David lets go and sort this out with some common sense – which doesn’t seem to be that common nowdays!!. | Don |
| It was and it continues to be a puffed up, fruitcake with nuts, heat creating talkfest. We waste any money or agreements or adhering to theories it proposes and supports. | Ray |
| Another Jacinder and comrades mess | kabe |
| get out of it – it is a load of BS – all lies & just a revenue gathering corporate scam | Jill |
| This country is already stuffed by greed and lies! We certainly do not need to burden the humble taxpayers of this country with more costs. As far as I’m concerned, the Paris Climate Agreement is just another SCAM! | Heather |
| I support no political agreement upon the climate at this point. It is plain to me that the exchange of wealth, in any form thus far used, has little effect on the climate and that climate is unlikely to be the real reason for such exchange. | Mike |
| It’s been obvious to all but the Green loonies, that the Paris agreement was a scam. Notice that it’s never been disclosed where this money goes. | Rex |
| It’s been obvious to all but the Green loonies, that the Paris agreement was a scam. Notice that it’s never been disclosed where this money goes. | Rex |
| We have Been brain washed into thinking saving the planet time to stop | leo |
| Paris was based on junk science and dogma so of course it should be dumped 100% | Collin |
| Time to wake up.The demand us for cheap not woke food | Bryce |
| Of course not!. The agreement specifically excludes agriculture, and the climate evidence shows way higher levels of CO2 in the past – long before the industrial revolution. | Mark |
| Largely driven by Luxon/National. | Ray |
| There has never been credible evidence of climate change created by carbon. Its a natural recurring phenomenon over eons. | Maurice |
| A waste of time and money | Anthony |
| It’s time to get out of this agreement, NZ makes little difference to climate change, it was a Jacinda let’s lead the world dream, one we can’t afford. | Warren |
| It’s a moneymaking scam for the elites of the world. | Keith |
| Absolutely not, complete waste of our precious $ | mike |
| It is bankrupting us and leading the nation to being third world – is that what we want – NO | tony |
| I do not support the Paris Agreement or any political party that does. | Graham |
| Cancel the climate scam nonsense immediately if not sooner. What are you waiting for Mr Luxon (wet woke and weak the veritable W Cubed)? | richard |
| National is out, unless it unless it starts thinking straight and is prepared to accept the truth. National can buddy up with Labor and we can forget about them. | Henk |
| Absurd and highly damaging for a small country of 5 million people, especially when the major polluters around the world are pulling out of the agreement. | Pete |
| It has always been a lot of hot air about nothing | Jim |
| Absolutely insane Agreement | Jan |
| It’s a load of BS pedalled by the elites. Luxon needs to read the room and scrap all the climate BS | Laurie |
| At last weak politicians are publicly recognising what has been the biggest scam humans have been scared by. No computer predictions since 2000 have eventuated ! | Gordon |
| Leave it immediately | Chris |
| Christopher Luxon’s view on this demonstrates that he is utterly unsuited to be PM. Who will rid me of this turbulent idiot. | Kenneth |
| Totally rediculous. | Heather |
| No, never did agree with it anyway. Time to pull out and, while we’re about it, unsign this UNDRIP business. Doesn’t apply to New Zealand anyway. | Lee |
| We should have pulled out when the coalition first got in. | Philip |
| NZ is a drop in the bucket, we are already doing our share | Colleen |
| Look at the real science – and trends in temperature. The correlation (not causation) of CO2 and methane emissions to temperature is non-existent. | Henry |
| They are all scared of being called climate deniers. It’s a disgrace what happened to Maureen Pugh. | Peter |
| Global warming and all the hype that goes with it is totally farcical and our small county cannot afford the Paris AAccord | Colin |
| Its a foolish commitment to a fake peoblem. | Kevin |
| It is a scam. | Richard |
| It is all pie in the sky. | Betty |
| Greenification ideology is riddled with non scientific emotionalism as it appeals to young followers easily convinced by popular rhetoric Greenies losing political traction turn to another realm of deception in pushing false rhetoric about social impoverishment to capture another bunch of handwringing lefties!! | Murray |
| The ‘Climate Emergency’, or whatever it is called this week, is a confidence trick, perpetrated upon uninformed and uninterested populations throughout the ‘developed’ world by self-serving charlatans, working to their own, undeclared agenda. It is now time to call a halt to this farce! | TOBY |
| there is NO global warming. Too many people however. | Linda |
| Ridiculous! Definitely not. | Kim |
| The science is clear that climate change is happening and we are responsible. And while governments maybe pulling back, global businesses are not and we are part of thier supply chains so will need to do more. | Mat |
| Definitely not – however the coalition need to remember food production should not be included. | Gerry |
| w e f un who we are controlled by their puppets | PETER |
| A scam | Glenice |
| No.It is a dishonest construction of manufactured beliefs with a Globalist WEF intention to rewire global politics onto a modern day interpretation of Marxism. | Stephen |
| For Gods sake ! They only have to READ the information thats out there ! | Rainey |
| It is not at all relevant for NZ | |
| Bsolute madness and a self=destructive idea. | Ray |
| No it’s ridiculous and shows how stupid some people are. | Steve |
| NO, just NO | willy |
| Will cripple our country, and there is no scientific evidence to prove humans rather than natural occurrences are the cause. | Linda |
| Read Ian Wisharts book “Air Con” a true investigative journalist who dots the i & x the t’s. Listing ALL the references. Book written in 2009. The UN used co2 bs as a “world problem” to suck money out of every country to fund bs science projects that were given an outcome agenda but more importantly to fund their own agenda. Kyoto then Paris agreements and finally the con is out. Imagine where this money could have been better spent in NZ! Education, health, housing …….. | Rita |
| Yet more clown world rubbish. Absolutely nothing to do with the planets wellbeing. | Grant |
| With tree stumps energing from the receding ice in Greenland it’s pretty obvious current warming is driven by nature – not CO2 | John |
| There is no justification for New Zealand to continue its commitment to Paris Agreement | Chris |
| Theres a lot of stupid people in the world but we outnumber them | Dennis |
| I’m 80 & have voted National all my life – they won’t get my vote next time | allan |
| Fully support your comments. Why won’t MSM report any of this? | ron |
| A no brainer..NO | Rhys |
| Lets stop being one of the few countries that are playing by the Paris rules and start opening our eyes to alternative scientific opinions. | Alan |
| never did support it, never will. Have been privileged to see a small volcano in action. Emitted more than every HiLux in NZ | dennis |
| Al Gore’s alarmist theory enriched him but is damaging economies world-wide | John |
| Open your eyes and ears and act responsibly. | Gordon |
| Never have and never will. Even doubling our efforts, if successful, would produce un measurable reductions. However, channeling all that spend into Mitigating the effects of global warming which are coming anyway, will have very tangible benifits. | steve |
| How much more evidence does the Government need before they act. | Dennis |
| Get the hall out of it | Teresa |
| The big poluters US and China aren t.We arean agusrian society and will break the next generatkons if we did! | Jc Ingran |
| Its all bullshit | ken |
| climate is constantly changing.why have socialists dropped global warming mantra? | William |
| Enough is enough we need to start introducing common sense and lobbying government. | Jan |
| This is based on nonsense promoted by politically motivated activists and politicians for their own devious reasons. OPT OUT NOW!!! | Douglas |
| climate change is a socialist hoax | Pattie & Paul |
| Where does the money go? What is it spent on? The world is going to do what it is going to do – Man has no control of the weather – so, who is getting the money? | patricia |
| We should leave the Paris Accord. Simple It’s fraudulent and filled with false indoctrination. | Angela |
| NZ does not need any interference in how we govern ourselves and manage our resources and our environment. No taxpayer funds or the borrowing of funds to prop up a phantom bureaucracy should ever be tolerated. | Helena |
| If only there was common sense in Parliament | Noeline |
| one of the biggest deceptions | anthony |
| Absolutely not – climate change is not man made, to think it is, is simply arrogant and based around feel good egos. | Hamish |
| It’s time to pull out of the Paris agreement, trying to meet its obligations are damaging our economy, destroying industries and increasing the cost of living for all NZ citizens. Pull out now. | Mark |
| The so called Climate crisis is an outright lie. It appears to me that this government is attempting to sabotage NZ in many areas. We thought they would really work for New Zealanders. What is Watts doing???? Where is his head?? | Marilyn |
| Time to bail out. | Mark |
| Never supported it. Another huge scam. | David |
| Virtue signalling madness | Barry |
| Luxon is going to ruin this country, NZ should pull out of the Paris agreement. The UN is dull of greenies | Allan |
| NZ is such a small landmass with already really good farming practices. Why waste any on a dying agreement? Furthermore, lets hope this also reduces the need for gene technology. | ingrid |
| We should drop the Paris agreement and all other climate related rubbish policies. It’s all a scam. | Clive |
| We need to pull out of this scam. Climate temperatures have been a lot higher, even in the Roman times. Ice core samples show it was higher 10,000 yrs ago and humans have survived with no problems back then. | Barry |
| The entire concept of the Paris agreement is farcical, using exaggerated & overstated assumptions to create fare among the ignorant. Just another socialist attempt to overthrow western democracies & destabilise and divide its populations. | Mike |
| Quite ridiculous to continue- the science has been proven that it is no longer any use. | Pauline |
| Too much BS and not enough Science in the stifled debate on Climate Change. We are coming out of an Ice Age, with cycles superimposed upon cycles, and the greenies simply dont have the knowledge, just BS,to fuel the debate which is needed. | Greg |
| We cannot afford the cost of such a stance | Neville |
| Our current PM is proving very rapidly to be nothing more than spineless leftist loony. At the current rate National could become a junior coalition partner, and I think that needs to happen to shake the party into life. | Hugh |
| Its time we pulled out for the same reasons as other countries. | Murray |
| The money goes into a gentlemans club and funding Climate propaganda and excuse to extract funds from us for no proper cause | David |
| The entire Paris agreement is a total fraud. New Zealand should have never signed up to it. | Beau |
| It is doing a great disservice to our farming sector and costing billions of dollars that could be used elsewhere. We are already one of the world’s smallest emitters. Makes no sense to pour money into mitigating something that cannot be quantified. | Sylvia |
| Over years I have read 100s of sound scientific papers from actual scientists. They are never covered by our taxpayer press, or honestly answered by our current or previous politicians. Only Donald Trump is honest enough to tell the truth. At times even the IPCC are more honest about some evidence than so many of the loyal, but misled followers. Do a study on our past Climate Commissioners, to understand what science they are experts in. I am looking forward to a NZ Elephant – and its not if but when. – choose your reading if you realy want the facts. | Maurice |
| New Zealand CANNOT CONTINUE this waste of money! Leave NOW! | Dave |
| Absolutely not. These jokers are not reading the room at all. Put NZ first and use those billions of dollars to help our own. | David |
| It is a waste of time and effort when not doing what was expected | Barbara |
| Let New Zealand pull out TODAY!!! This whole thing is a great rort and the whole Climate Change untruth is costing us dearly. | Sylvia |
| 1. I do not an agree with your assertion that activities by humans have not contributed to global warming. To believe this is to deny many years of reputable scientific research. 2. I think your poll Q is too simplistic. The situation is much more nuanced. 3. I support NZ’s continuing commitment to the Paris Agreement, but with renegotiated terms that recognise NZ’s unique situation: because without offshore income from pastoral agriculture and horticulture (i) our economy is dead and (ii) our total ag and hort emissions are miniscule on a global warming scale. 4. If renegotiation is not possible then yes, we should withdraw and re-enter on terms that reflect the realities of NZ’s position. | TONY |
| It has proved to be divisive in the extreme. | caren |
| The entire climate change narrative is a con! The planet is ever-changing and has been under constant change for millions of years. We cannot stop the natural progression of things and should be preparing for it rather than vainly trying to stop it. The con is in instilling fear into the populations so that they will allow additional taxations and regulations by those seeking control. Cancel any agreements related to climate change that do not support preparation for this event.Out Minister of Climate Change should be focused on our preparations not on paying millions of taxpayer dollars to third world despots who will merely pocket the money. | martin |
| Radiation and nuclear waste major factors and the cause of warming. Read Dr. Walter B. Russell Atomic Suicide and weep! | Norman |
| It’s a farce! | caren |
| No it will wreck NZ and likely bankrupt us as well | Richard |
| End the scam | Paul |
| We are so small what can we do and the big counties do nothing | RAY |
| The scientific argument in favour of the Paris Agreement was lost some time ago. The political argument in favour has now weakened sufficiently to make withdrawal an acceptable option. | Jacob |
| DEFFINATLY NOT. | Ian |
| The evidence is clear that the planet will control climate change and human impact is so low. Our economy has a higher priority that climes. | Derek |
| The commitment is purely political. | David |
| I suggest that everyone reading this article vote for Act or NZF and if polled tell them that is how you are voting and why if asked. | Chuck |
| remove us from WHO and kill WAITANGI tribunal | john |
| Its a scam of the highest order | Wayne |
| In my 85 yr memory and eyes I’ve experienced many climate changes – many high and low tides and WE still have the same four seasons plus it’s extremes! That variation continues to roll on while some politicians seem to be living in their ‘cloudy’ political bubble! How come PM Luxon and Minister Willis think they are going to change the weather patterns. It’s a pity they can’t do a better job attending to NZ citizen’s general health and well being, education and divisive racial issues etc! | Stuart |
| Pull out now. Its a waste of time and money. | Des |
| As far as it applies to NZ, it is a waste of financial resources and lets be honest about the Paris agreement, no matter what NZ does it is not going to have the slightest impact on global emissions. The over bearing amount required to comply can be put to far greater use at home given the state of our economy. It is about time our PM pulled some of his cabinet colleges into line. | chris |
| Global warming and now Climate change has always been a hyped up myth | Clive |
| Absolute waste of tax payers money especially in the current environment where the RBNZ recession is killing people & business livelihood | Ray |
| Time to withdraw from the Paris agreement. We can still focus on clean outcomes but stop wadting money thst gies whovknows where. | Marilyn |
| I want the government to take New Zealand out of the Paris Agreement. If you don’t look after your own country’s people, you will never allow New Zealand to become a wealthy country. and although some people can leave to live in other prosperous countries the majority count and we need to live and prosper as well and getting out of the Paris Agreement will allow us to prosper and build our countries wealth. | Jackie |
| We cannot afford it if nothing else, it will bankrupt NZ | Alastair |
| Virtue signalling rubbish. | Dave |
| This is a senseless goal not supported by the science. We. Annoy afford to damage NZ’s economy further. Nz should leave the Paris climate accord. | John |
| Never have supported this idiocy. Luxon is becbecomming as bad as Adern. Someone wake him up | Ray |
| Absolutely NO! It astounds me at the level of ongoing stupidity our current Coalition govt is showing on this issue, and likewise previous govts, in signing us up to and maintaining our membership to the Paris Agreement at the cost of our economy and our nation’s livelihood. | Neville |
| As already proved this is a typical “Green ” lie that does not stack up at all. 100% withdrawal for common sense for the whole economy | Russ |
| 2 bombs dropped in Ukraine would amount to all of NZ cows farting for 1 year. | Mark |
| It is wrong and a misuse of taxpayers money. | Lindsay |
| Support would be madness | Noel |
| HELL NO! | sherrin |
| It should nrver have been committed to by New Zealand in the first place – the reality is it is sheer idealistic fantasy 11 | Barry |
| The emperor wasn’t wearing clothes and this CO2 “drama” is a big con | Anne |
| It is like a cancer. Get rid of it. | Elliot |
| NO LONGER WORTHWHILE | david |
| Total waste of time and MONEY. | Andrew |
| Man made influence on climate change is a man made myth. | Hugh |
| The Climate Change debate has always been flawed as 96% of CO2 is natural and by the way, CO2 is essential to life on earth. It is simply a rort to move capital from the right to the left. | Linton |
| N.Z now more than ever, has to avoid, all euro treaties and defence agreements, of all colours. We are in serious, dangerous times. Political defence agreements have to be carefully sorted, before we become committed to any side. ALL TREATIES HAVE TO BE AVOIDED, NZ. SHOULD REMAIN POSITIVELY NEUTRAL! | DAVID |
| No. Never have. It is the greatest con committed on mankind. NZ should have with drawn years ago. Luxon and Watts are wasting the country’s money. | Noel |
| No need. It’s All Lies Our economy is the most IMPORTANT! | Dominique |
| The climate accord is unravelling fast. Why would a miniscule emitter like NZ piously crusade on in a futile attempt to appear virtuous when there’ll be nobody left clapping at the finish line. | Geoff |
| UNfortunately short term greed is the winner here | Alan |
| No the dum buggers have been brain washed and cant think for themselves | Colin |
| The biggest con since Moses played fullback for the Israelites. | john |
| The Paris Agreement is ridiculous and should be scrapped as soon as possible in the best interest of the people at large | Tom |
| NOT WORTH CONTINUING WTH JUST TO KEEP THE GREENS HAPPY !!!! | david |
| I simply cannot understand their continuing commitment to it. It will go a long way to destroying this country | Gail |
| It’s the Worlds largest con ever! | Brian |
| CO2 is the basis of all life on earth, its a scam to call CO2 a pollutant and try to reduce it | John |
| No! – get out of it now! – stop wasting our money!. Let the greenie freaks pay for it, since they are the ones who want it so badly. It should never have been agreed to in the first place! | Scott |
| It is a fraud. | steph |
| Read the room and this time actually respect the plebians wishes! | Richard |
| No Longer. | Ann |
| this is totally bunkum. Even after cop27 in Egypt, the U.N.decided that the R.C.P of 8.5 was totally discredited and a figure of RCP 3.4 which basically means that we do not have to do anything ! I have really no time for our Climate Minister as I hand delivered quite detailed material to his electorate office and while I recieved a very gracious welcome from his organiser, I have not had a word of reply from Mr.Watts. | Keith |
| We should immediately withdraw. The “science” is nonsense. Renewables if anything create more climate problems with their limited life and at present no ability to “renew” (recycle them and only work part time equiring expensive (fossil) back up. NZ contribution is tiny. China is currently increasing its coal fired power stations at the rate of greater than 1 a week and India is similar. america is out. Africa and other less wealthy and highly populated countries will not be involved and we are shooting ourselves in the foot with the ludicrous methane hysteria despite the Paris agreement stating any requirements should not affect food production. The whole thing is a hoax and we must WITHDRAW IMMEDIATELY. | Steve |
| We have all been hoodwinked by self serving climate activists and lead by the nosering of government lies | Paul |
| Does make you wonder just what’s in it for them that they are so adamant in keeping all this rubbish going. National are on a very slippery slid into oblivion. we are third and fourth generation national voters, but not anymore. | Merryl |
| Nett zero and CO2 hysteria is is a ridiculous UN promoted scam Should dump both climate accord ,the UN and for good measure the WHO | Phil |
| The Green Party in Particular are simply not doing their homework on the complete range of factors affecting climate change and the clearly established uncertainty in the modelling. They are not aware of the importance of co2 g and for synthesis on the planets very existence of living things | Stan |
| Climate change activism is little more than a front for creeping (?) Communism | John |
| We can’t save he world | LGF |
| Follow most of the rest of the world Withdraw | Greg |
| Climate change is caused mainly by natural means. The Paris agreement is a crock and NZ needs to get out asap. | James |
| We should pull out of the Paris nonsense agreement now. | |
| I have lost ll confidence in the coalition Government led by the traitor Luxon | Tane |
| Pull out, the sooner the better. And while you%u2019re about it, stop lying about Climate Change. | Brian |
| I do not think we should be acquiescing to a destructive global scam. Pull us out. | Bruce |
| The climate crisis is a lie. | Grant |
| the big fish need to conform to this well before NZ | Noel |
| Without C02 there would be no life on earth. Greenies are the dumbest species on this planet. | Steve |
| This agreement is a scam on the world especially as the larger countries e.g. Russia, China ,Nth Korea and ow the USA These counties are the worst polluters | Wendy |
| We should follow the USA and pull out of the agreement altogether | Nick |
| I thought they campaigned on getting this country working again – not signing us up to even more ridiculous targets ??? | Dave |
| It is a ridiculous agreement most people do not realise that CO2 represents something like 0.04% of the atmosphere!!! | Peter |
| The Green Dream is dead. | Grant |
| We won’t make a difference | Leigh |
| This government doesn’t have the balls to make many of the changes they were voted in to make. | John |
| Absolutely not. Its UN driven propaganda and a scam that will turn this country into a third world banana republic, if we arent already largely there. | Neil |
| When hardly anyone is complying it makes no sense to continue. The whole concept is a socialist push to move money from rich economies to poor ones | Mark |
| It’s a scam for wealth redistribution from the middle class to certain elites. Part of the WEF/UN plan for global governance. National is virtually the same as Labour time for a drastic change | Max |
| This govt……….. too much of talking right and governing left | robin |
| stupid e just cannot aford to give these scum bags such an amount of money. We can do what we can to reduce our level. We do not need to pay anything to anyone. | Kenneth |
| Total waste of taxpayers’ money and will achieve nothing in NZ. | James |
| It’s past time, we should pull out of this ludicrous agreement which is based on false science, follow the leading counties and can it! This leftist, woke crap is decimating our economy. | Andrew |
| It was stupid from the outset and was never going to get any better. | J J |
| It is a travesty on our small nation that our government continues to support debunked science to meet highly questionable globalist agendas. | Linda |
| How the hell do these people (Politicians) get their positions when they are soooo thick and gullible? I ask you. | Brian |
| First there is NO climate emergency as all events are within naturally occurring variability. If grasses and naturally occurring forests we would already well beyond net zero but there is no money to be made there. Do a Trump and dump the Paris rubbish | Cookie |
| Obviously our politions don’t read reports and comments by people who know what they re talking about. Wake up and step into reality not ideaology. | Peter |
| We should be out – I was hoping we would beat theUS but sadly no | Peter |
| Economic suicide | Rob |
| We have to opt out, costing too dearly | Kkay |
| NO!! It achieves nothing and will impoverish New Zealand. In fact, New Zealand’s CO2 emissions are only 0.0051% of total global emissions. | Doug |
| Climate change is not caused by human activities, but by the naturally occurring cycles of this planet. We should not be putting huge amounts of money into pseudo-science which is increasingly proven to be a facade. Follow an increasing number of countries by pulling out of the Paris agreement ASAP!! This one way to decrease our nation’s spending. Come on, Luxon, make a decision and follow your two coalition partners! | Laurence |
| Remove our country forth with. Today | Cyril |
| A gross waste of money we need to resign from it | Allan |
| IT WAS ALWAYS A POLITICAL SCAM!!!! | DENISE |
| NZ should never have been in the Paris Agreement given the minimal affect we have on climate. Lets get out NOW. | Peter |
| It is time our government woke up as what is happening around the World and in particular, the Worlds largest nations and largest emitters. Our economic recovery depends on it. | Graeme |
| Proven to be a complete waste of Taxpayers hard earned money. | Brian |
| Definitely NOT . We MUST OUT !! Hugh Perrett | Hugh |
| Eliminate all mechanisms of government that d deal with climate change. It is a huge scam and is not supported by the vast majority of intelligent people in New Zealand. | Mike |
| The big talk earlier this year, coming out of Luxon’s mouth, is completely at odds with the dangerous and destructive policies. | Leonie |
| It is a waste of 14 billion dollars | Arthur |
| Pull out quick | Phil |
| Ludicrous, plain stupid, & lots of other words that are unprintable. | clive |
| I would only stay in when India, China and USA vastly reduce their emissions. | John |
| The Paris Agreement was based on a false premise and one by one nations a waking up to the money laundering climate scam. | Kevin |
| All you have to do is engage your brain and the answer is screaming at you… | Mike |
| Time to stop this ideological nonsense and recover the already damaged NZ economy before it is doomed forever. | Mike |
| Get out of it as soon as possible | Bevin |
| We have a prime minister who campaigned on ending wasteful spending. Was he only joking. ??? | Donald |
| should never have happened in the first place -thanks Jacinda – yeah right | Colin |
| IT’S A TOTAL SCAM | john |
| Long overdue to opt out. Leave now! | Robert |
| Follow the science and focus on New Zealand’s economic well-being | Don |
| It is hypocritical of Luxon to say we are focussed on economic growth and then pledge billions of dollars by staying in the Paris Agreement and setting new net zero targets. | Grant |
| N.Z has to disengage, from european treaty, defence and climate commitments, as well as UN/WEF/FAO/WHO binding agreements | DAVID |
| I have never agreed with the Paris agreement I can not understand the coalition taking the stand it has on this issue. With a lot of luck they may change their view. The sooner the better | Gary |
| Must follow trading partners. | Ian |
| Never did! Just a rort! | chris |
| If you should live on a submarine you would have 4 to 6 thousand ppm of co2 | Felix |
| We need to be much clearer and sure of the technical background and the world needs to take a unified approach. We should pull out until the world unifies on the appropriate approach. | John |
| As Owen Jennings, Barry Brill and many other informed commentators on this site have said for many years now, there is no actual data to support the claims that CO2 and methane are destroying the planet through man made climate change. Faulty climate models are the basis for most world governments climate predictions. Fortunately an increasing awareness of this nonsense is beginning to cause a change in attitudes worldwide. Alas not in NZ government circles, the ignorance is astounding. Can any of our politicians read or do their own research to get up to speed on what is actually fact as opposed to computer based fantasy which will destroy the NZ economic future. Exit the United Nations and all its associated entities before it is too late. God save New Zealand! | Ian |
| It’s the demise of our country and will put us into billions of dollars in debt | laurie |
| The sky is falling – Chicken Little. | Brett |
| The climate scam is simply a continuation of the Covid scam. | Russ |
| the whole deal is a complete sham. Exit Paris and the U N and the WHO. | Lawrence |
| Get out NOW !!! . However unfortunately while our country is run by the headless chook Cluckson i cant see it happening. Mr Cluckson forget about any commitment to the Paris agreement and instead focus on commitment to your election promises. Humpty Dumpty sat on the all- (doing nothing) Humpty dumpty had a great fall. The sooner the better. | Glyn J |
| It’s straight out of the US Democratic Party playbook. Luxo & Co are the principal drivers I suspect, and we all know how useless he’s proved as a leader. Unfortunately NZ usually lags a good 5 years behind in adopting then giving up half-witted fads. Looks like we’re no different on this one. | Derek |
| A disgraceful waste of tax payer money. our C02 emissions, if they even matter are inconsequential. | Lindsay |
| Imaging from space has identified that NZ does NOT even register on the pollution scale and the countries that are pulling out of the Paris Agreement register highly. Our government joining with increased levels makes us the fools and clowns of the world in stupidity and ignorance. Why are NZ politicians so easily lead by faulty propaganda about climate change. Unfortunately a new government will be worse as Iwi will want to get a cut of the climate change gravy train. Our standard of living is doomed if we do not pull out of this lying agreement. Bankruptcy is guaranteed. | Brenda |
| The Paris agreement was a political con…. Get out of it. Stop paying owners of useless pine forests that do nothing and start building industry. | Robbie |
| Absolutely not. This climate change nonsense has been a scam from day one. | Gareth |
| A massive bluff | Clive |
| Muriel’s essay on CO2 supports what I have thought for a long time | Malcolm |
| NZ’s contribution to methane in the atmosphere is so small that we don’t even make it onto the list of countries contributing. So why does the Government continue to persecute our dairy industry. | Alan |
| More WEF UN scams | Greg |
| Biggest Hoax the world has ever seen!!! | Derek |
| A lie is a lie – that is bad enough, but when it siphons millions of dollars from our struggling economy to overseas interests, for zero measurable effect, that’s criminally irresponsible of the govt. | Neil |
| Finally it seems the world is finally waking up to this colossal and devious charade except little NZ who wants to be seen as doing our part. They should have listened to Leighton Smith all those years ago and saved billions of wasted dollars. | James |
| Our agriculture sector is being severely damaged by the increased crackdown on emissions. I don’t believe that Co2 is the culprit rather that this climate change has happened many times over the millenia. As a small country we cannot afford these charges demanded by the Paris Agreement and it is certainly unfair when the bigger countries opt out. To sum up climate change will progress no matter what we do. | Jan |
| It was stupid idea in the first place and now that the world is waking up to his folly- we should leave and right NOW!! | Roger |
| Even the IPCC has backed away from its 8.5 scenario on which NZ’s net zero is based as being an unrealistic scenario. Dump net zero! | john |
| Should never have become involved with this hoax | Carolyn |
| This is the reply to our email received from Luxon”s office “Leaving the Paris Agreement could put our Trade Agreements at risk. That means less money for farmers, less money going into rural economies, and less money we can spend on important public services like health and education. We are not willing to put our trade agreements at risk when our 2035 target does not close down farms or send billions of dollars overseas. The 2035 climate target is realistic, responsible, and necessary. It supports long-term economic growth through access to international markets while ensuring New Zealand meets its global commitments without undue reliance on forestry or international carbon credits. Once again, thank you for taking the time to write; it is appreciated.” | Avril and David |
| Through out time we have seen the climate change. Today we may be in a warming period, but it will change in time. The climate industry is a very expensive hoax that achieves no positive outcomes for New Zealand. Drop the Paris Agreement and let NZ farmers use worlds best practice to manage our food production unhindered by exorbitant costs that achieve no change increase in food quality or quantity. | Robert |
| The unreal $ cost to NZ & especially the rural sector if we continue with this will be the demise of our most productive sector. | Derek |
| Health, for example can do well with this kind of money being wasted. | Gerhard |
| WOFTAM | Gary |
| Globalist bollocks | Tom |
| Insane from the very beginning | tHOMAS |
| Reprehensible and likely criminal, through the destruction of enterprise, limitation on innovation and ignorance of the real science that counters the propaganda so thoroughly. Globalist garbage. | Kevin |
| It is a gigantic $1 trilion a year Wall Street scam designed to bankrupt Western economies. | susan |
| I can’t believe that government and its officials are still being hoodwinked on this issue. | Sally |
| We don’t need to be in that – it is a scam. | Kim |
| Luxon is not good for NZ HE HAS TO GO | tOM |
| A significant % of our emissions are agricultural. Since food production is specifically excluded from the Paris Agreement targets, it is basically pointless our remaining in it. | Laurie |
| Scandalous waste of precious taxpayers money – billions of NZ dollars that will NOTHING for NZ’s OR the worlds climate | Hylton |
| Ask any climate scientist to prove that global temperature miniscule rise is due to C02, none can.! All cases of record temperatures are based on models and not accurate recording. | John |
| It is a facade if lies. Deceitful politics for global show ponies who do not understand the meaning of the “evolution” word. | Gary |
| The approx $1.5 billion sent to Paris can be more constructively used in nz as we already support the pacific region.this is where our interest lies | Ken |
| It’s totally insane that we remain in the Paris Accord with the absolute detriment to our country. | Vivienne |
| Proven by science to be a total waste of resources and money | Lew |
| It is just plain dumb, but so are the Nats | rod |
| Do not allow fast track for the environmental disaster that windmills and solar farms are. | Barry |
| We should bail and also ask where gas all the money gone….and we want it back | Roger |
| Absolutely stupid decision to appease global leaders at the expense of NZ people. | Trevor |
| It is an exercise in costly futility | Louis |
| This ‘Man made Climate Change’ is the World’s second biggest SCAM. The Climate is Nature, the Environment is on us, so wise up Folks and try to stop watching the MainSewage Media as much !! | Geoff |
| I think we have been brainwashed | George |
| It is, in plain English, stupid and dangerous for NZ to adhere to the Paris or any previous according. Again, not enough honest and straight thinking people in NZ politics. They even program young naive minds. Criminal and against freedom. How stupid are we? | Leonard |
| Carbon Zero is absolute nonsense. | Michael |
| No this needs revising after big changes down/out of the agreement. We (New Zealand) are a minor contrubitor to the greenhouse world wide esamissions. | Carl |
| The Green’s “scientific method” makes no sense. | David |
| The world’s biggest hoax. | Neville |
| It is a falsehood, based on incorrect assumptions re human influence on the climate. Chris Luxon should aplologise to Margaret Pugh!. | Barry |
| This is just a scam. Only someone as stupid as Luxon could fall for it. Or is he enslaved to the globalists? | Jenny |
| NZ should wake up and follow USA | Maurice |
| The science does not stack up, we cannot and should not harm the Nz People and Economy needlessly ! | Nathan |
| The climate will do as it wants for ever how can paying money to some conglomeration stop it !! | Alison |
| The science shows that net zero is not beneficial to the world. Colossal waste of money for no purpose. | PJ |
| Crazy stuff – while we mutilate the NZ economy | Andrew |
| Recently wrote to the Herald on this very point. Needless to say they refrained from printing my contribution. | John |
| They are ignoring the huge amount of scientific evidence which disproves ALL the hype being pushed on us | Peter |
| Never believed in the climate warming twaddle in the first place. We may at last be free of the millstone green party. | Peter |
| If National continue with these harmful directions & dont start what they promised they’ll lose this longtime blue vote. | Neil |
| it is a waste of time costing the country to much. | Barry |
| not justifiable let alone affordable | david |
| The reasons are obvious | Bruce |
| Why don’t our politicians believe the facts? Get real! | Colin |
| waste of money and a big scam to make money for a few. | Graeme |
| We have a prime minister which when asked, would you change your mind if it was conclusively proven to you that climate change was driven by human activity? his answerer was ‘No I wouldnt change my mind’. He is a closed mind fool. | James |
| It appears that the coalition hasn’t read the real Science on Climate | Ross |
| The Paris Agreement is part of the biggest hoax the world has ever been subjected to, and should be scrapped immediately. | Tim |
| Get us out of the Paris Agreement altogether! | Robyn |
| Absolute CON!!!! | Andy |
| I have felt all along that climate change is a have. I bet our politicians will keep us apart of the scam, we are way to stupid. Little common sense in this country. | Paul |
| NZ must pull out of this outright scam that is a mission towards a One World Government and Authoritarian Rule by the UN. Absolute rubbish, and a waste of taxpayers money. | Valerie |
| We should have pulled out of this long ago | Robin |
| It’s false science promoted by globalists seeking control aiming for an overall reset. | Ash |
| Why sign up for something that already had an exemption for agricultural countries like ours that are economically dependent on ruminant animals turning grass into their main export i.e. dairy products? | Peter |
| Utter waste of tax payers money and detrimental to our economy | Pete |
| Climate change is all bollocks | Chris |
| *Do you support the CORPORATIONS Coalition continuing commitment to the Paris Agreement? No, and I don’t support the corporation masquerading as government in any of its corporate agenda’s policies. | neil |
| Get out of it as soon as possible !! | Geoffrey |
| Our Politicians need to concentrate on the Big Kauri. Not Pig fern. Richard Prebbles resignation from the Waitangi Tribunal says it all. Why should New Zealanders continue suffering to get the Country back on track. Sort the Treaty issues out once and for all. We will do what is necessary to lessen our footprint on the pollution of our Country. But we live in the now. Not a Fantasy dream World | Frank |
| The sooner we pull out of of the pointless agreement, admit that there is no Climate crisis the better off we all will be. | Allan |
| It’s a political con designed to redistribute wealth to poorer countries. | Philip |
| It’s a ‘follow the money’ fraud scheme. | sandra |
| Absolutely not and at the same time tell Simon Watts how out of touch he is with the NZ Public, particularly the farming sector. | Neville |
| absolute BS, the climate will do what the climates has always done, that’s change. there is nothing happening now that hasn’t happened before | john |
| It has always been ridiculous to include ruminant methane emissions in the reduction targets. These are just part of a natural cycle with almost no net long term impact. Furthermore NZ agricultural production is some of the most efficient in the world for product produced per unit methane. The result of the current NZ policy is good farmland being turned into permanent carbon forests with no long term value, but likely creating an ecological disaster. This is totally contradictory to the Paris Agreement that there should be no impact on food production. | Alister |
| Definately not !!! There was no real agreement anyway but an “accord” which is not binding on anyone. This has to be the greatest fraud ever pulled on the world. CO2 is not an enemy — it is the lifeblood of the planet and any increases in the parts per million can only be a good thing. It got down to 180 ppm and if it had dropped to 150 ppm all life on the planet would have died. The climate alarmists are concerned at the current ppm of about 420. Once in the past it was about 6000 ppm and nothing happened except the planet greened up better and indeed the planet is greening up now due to an increase of CO2 — it is NOT an enemy and represents about .9 of 1% of the greenhouse gases. Look up some “REAL” scientists who will rubbish ALL claims that are being made. Of course there is climate change as there has been since time began but it’s not controllable by man and it’s extremely slow moving. | Alan |
| It is utter folly | Doug |
| we need to get OUT of this Paris accord nonsense claim the hundreds of millions back, and let nature do it’s thing. | Peter |
| Can anyone state what the agreement has actually achieved in terms of Global Climate Change>?? Reduction of temperatures? Reduction in rate of increase? ANYTHING?? | Michael |
| The climate is changing; but reality is surfacing. This is a natural phenomena that has happened continually. Just a pity that the idiots in Washington have decided before us. Save the time, effort and money and use it accept climate change; not trying to control what we can’t, | Peter |
| We should never have subscribed to this ridiculous scheme in the first place. G Get out now. | Bruce |
| Anthropogenic Global warming is without doubt the biggest con of all time, the really surprising thing is the number of people who still rally behind it when not one of the alarmist predictions made has materialized. | John |
| Net zero is disaster for NZ. Absolutely stupid. | Dave |
| Time to pull out …… sooner the better | Vaughan |
| Absolutely not!!! | Michael |
| Pull out of this scam asap | Murray |
| We never should have signed initially. | Ewen |
| Boy, do we a real leader now! | Bill |
| It’s insane | Graeme |
| Stop | Wiremu |
| It’s a load of BS. As usual, NZ is the last on the block to understand this. | Michele |
| Climate change is natural. Human activity does not contribute much to the climate, so we should withdraw from the agreement. | Andrew |
| The money saved should be spent on our own “sensible” green projects. Eg. more hydro and thermal generation. More mining and drilling of our own resources instead of importing them. | Steve |
| Let’s not self-destruct for no gain | Stuart |
| This crass notion that CO2 and even methane is killing the planet is fostered by those who have never joined the workforce but seek a living peddling this nonsense Locally supporters think dairy meat and vegies come from the supermarket and we do not need farming The climate change cult onlys cry for public support and funds to continue to keep them unemployed. Those that vote for them have no understanding of what makes their lives livable. Climate change is a cult and a ultimately a death cult at that because the world struggles to feed itself now without restrictions. The uneducated like our current PM support carbon zero which indicates clearly they are not up to the job as carbon zero is unattainable. We need leadership and at the moment Seymor is the only one supporting sensible options. Common lets call for leaving Paris ASAP | malcolm |
| The base numbers are wrong..The minister is being hijacked by his own department | gavin |
| The scam has gone on long enough anyone with half a brain should have been able to see it just follow the money | Peter |
| Never did support anything the UN pushes, just a money grab to keep it relevant | Roy |
| It’s a total scam | Jon |
| The Paris Agreement is a farce. The targets are impossible and are not taken seriously by the majority of nations. Our government needs a reality check. | Gifford |
| To adhere to the: Paris Agreement would lead to our own ECONOMIC SELF DESTRUCTION.. Surely we have enough brains to work that out. | William |
| It is sheer idiocy | Colin |
| NZ should pull out of the Paris agreement and focus on being clean within our own borders. | Bryan |
| Insane for NZ to tread this path. | Bryan |
| The amount of green house gases that NZ generates compared to that of the USA, India, China, is infintisimal, so why punish ourselves for no gain | Peter |
| It is nature taking place mankind cannot stop it | Morrin |
| Why don’t the Nats do some research and then overturn our commitment to the Paris Agreement!! | Marianne |
| Au revior | JimboJones |
| Never have supported it, have always believed that it’s impossible to control the climate. | Rod |
| Unbelievable that politicians cant read the room | Rob |
| The whole climate change;/global warming scam is the greatest fraud ever enacted on the world population and needs to end NOW! | Brenda |
| New Zealand should never have signed up to it in the first place. It is a complete & utter waste of time & taxpayer money. Whatever a small country as ours does will not make a scrap of difference. Get out of it now. | David |
| This little cointry cannot afford it. Peters and Seymour have got it right. | Janet |
| waste of time & money since major polluters not doing anything!! | Chris |
| Luxon has his eyes on his next corporate job and doesn’t want a blemish on his CV ! | Garth |
| The PM needs to be replaced. He is an ineffective leader. | John |
| Absolutely not. The Global Warming Climate Change has been the biggest Con probably ever, solely devised to bring down Western industrialized nationtions. | Roseanne |
| The coalition was elected primarily to move away from the far leftist ideology like the climate doomsday cult. They should have been out on day one. | Pavel |
| The principle of individual responsibility should apply and has worked well. Los Angeles is a great barometer of success in reducing immediate pollution. From unbreathable air (outside for 5 minutes was 5 minutes too long) to a clear view. Pollution free is a good thing. Excessive, unnecessary control based on Marxist group think is merely a tool for political power using public innocence as a means to oppose a business environment. Making sure someone is responsible is one thing (reforest a disused mine, for instance, but the cow business was just stupid. Fresh air in once exhaust fume laden city (Whellington) is present. Time for those achievements to be noted and accepted, we move on. Govt spending is largely symbolic, but when principles are expensive and unnecessary and when a situation arises that shows, Trump of all people is correct, we need to be very careful indeed. Almost certainly it is the advice he receives but … govt symbolism… It takes a brave govt to do a practical but vote threatening action when public indoctrination has been so effective. | Lawrence |
| Absolutely ridiculous. one of the conditions of the Accord was that Food Production was exempt so why has our Government ignored that ? | Nev |
| The Paris Agreement is based on absolutely appalling scientific nonsense! It should be rejected immediately! | Ron |
| Why does this government continue to ignore the facts? Seemingly hellbent on crippling the NZ economy and degrading the wellbeing of future generations | Maxine |
| It is all a Climate Con. We need out now. | Mark |
| New Zealand should never have entered the agreement in the first place. It is a complete & utter waste of time & the taxpayers money, when New Zealand is so small & its contribution to ‘climate change’ is negligible. Whatever we do will not make a scrap of difference. Get out of it now. | David |
| net-zero-stupid is a woke-joke-frog served with windfarm steaks and rainbow sauce. | Robert |
| The Paris accord is just a scam. The National led coalition Govt. needs to backtrack as soon as possible. | Wayne |
| The world has moved on | Ian |
| The Paris ‘agreement’ is based on LIES and is 100% false. | mark |
| Evident | Jo |
| This coalition government is so disappointing. Why do they think they are so superior to the rest of the world with their behind the times rules. Get the best for our country – get out of the Paris Agreement – simple. | Ronnie |
| The whole thing is a scam | chris |
| It’s based on faulty modelling and has no long term data to support their theories | Gaye |
| Too much politicking and not enough clear and decisive leadership of our nation. This is just another case of “Truth Will Out” that NZ taxpayers are paying for with their livelihoods until decent and accountable leadership of our country develops further. | Andrew |
| It is just one bloody great scam by the Left to destroy capitalism. The National Party have proved beyond doubt that they are a Party of incompetent fools. | Frank |
| Paris accord total waste of money, these guys just don’t listen to the facts. They need to wake up and ditch corrupt UN all together. A billion would do alot of road works | Chris |
| As introverted little tossers we will continual to shaft ourselves. | Russell |
| Climate alarmism is not based on science. Climate will always change as has been the case over the generations. | Carol |
| My MP and the govt is well aware of my opposition to this nonsense but quite frankly kly, they do not give a flying f… what I or anyone else wants, thinks, believes or has knowledge of. Govt are all a waste of space. Sick of this shif. | Neil |
| Let the main polluters put the money in. | Shelley |
| It is a money rort | Raymond |
| It is crippling NZ and based on political globalist ideology rather than real science and extensive historical data | Maree |
| There’s no point to the Paris Agreement | Gavin |
| Absolutely!! Climate Change is the biggest scam the 21st Century. There is no truth in it and we cannot afford the fictitious cost. | Robyn |
| And wind farms need to be stopped now especially those at sea. No more precious land to be used for housing or pine tree farms | Mary |
| Pull out NOW | David |
| The commitment is not justified by the overwhelming evidence against the arguments that imposed it. Ther country cannot afford to meet the imposed burden nor should it need to. Stop the Net Zero nonsense as well as there is no sensible argument for it. | Peter |
| Climate change is natural. Why are these polititions trying to destroy NZs economy? Their bank accounts need to be audited. | Koreen |
| Absolutely not. These morons at the helm are in the pockets of overseas interests and do what they are told. With that sort of traitors we are doomed if we do not rid ourselves of them. | Michael |
| The easiest lever the Government can pull to help our economy is withdrawing from the Paris Accord. Time to stop the climate change madness. | Nick |
| NZ should pull out. | Graham |
| Never have done. The late David Kear, Director General of NZIR exposed the ideology decades ago. | Doug |
| this is a radical money grab and I doubt very much poor countries will see a cent of it. We as a country are doing exceedingly well with emissions in respect to other countries | Margaret |
| stop dumb politicians | joe |
| It is just another waste of tax payers money that is not going to make a difference to climate change | Martin |
| We are being lead down the garden path. | Don |
| No, it’s based on fake science and is all about totalitarian control and wealth distribution. If Luxon feels committed to it, he should resign, it is not in NZ’s interests to remain. | Trevor |
| Why bankrupt our country when others ignore there responsibility | Beverley |
| Withdraw immediately. Withdraw now. | RICHard |
| This is just another instance of the Coalition giving the middle finger to the majority of their voters and support base. Read the science, Luxon. Appoint Maureen Pugh as your minister for climate change. I’ll bet she’s got some good books for you to read on the subject. | Rodger |
| Isn’t it true that 93% of scientists agree that climate change is a scam? NZ should pull out of the Paris Agreement. Our politicians need to consider an apology to our farmers. Next, NZ needs to pull out of UNDRIP. The idiots shouldn’t sign things they don’t understand. | Peter |
| Absolutely not! It is idiotic hogwash !!! | Margaret |
| Reasons for exiting Paris are well covered in Dr Newman’s column. | John |
| NO, NO and NO | Sam |
| There is NO evidence that the climate change is man made – none. So can the Paris agreement | Maurice |
| It’s Bollocks! Thank you Muriel for throwing logic on this scam. Loved your chat with Leighton Smith too. Keep up the fine work you do. | Grant |
| Failure to do this could have disastrous consequences for democratic consultation and rights for all New Zealanders to have access to their beaches and enjoy our marine environment. Furthermore give an elite few full control of our Marine resources and fishing rights. | June |
| Well said Dr Newman. AGW is a hoax and a scam. But this is the same country which long ago closed state-run coal mines – including one at the end of a conveyor belt at the back of Huntly power station – and now imports dirty brown coal from Indonesia. This is to keep the lights on in Auckland with the stations gas supply piped from Taranaki no longer sufficient to run the station, after Jacinda banned gas exploration. All in the name of the climate alarmism scam. Enough already! But who is going to step up and stop it? | Juliet |
| Time to follow Trumps’ example, the cost of compling, is not justified, or needed, far more important issues needed! stop support for E.U/WEF/NATO. | DAVID |
| That CO2 causes global warming is an utter scam and should be seen as such by anyone with even half a brain and an ability to think critically. Unfortunately our politicians, particularly our current PM and those of most of our recent governments, do not fall into that category! | Alan |
| Futile virtue signalling stubbornly clung to against all evidence to the contrary with something resembling religious fervour | Ian |
| We should never have signed up to the Paris accord – it’s been a total disaster for NZ. To have our country’s economy voluntarily derailed by politicians seeking the approval of climate activists is bizarre. Yet that’s what has happened. | David |
| I would have expected the Coalition to see sense and pull out of the Paris Agreement, but it seems they are more interested in encouraging economic activity in the climate area so they can claim to have revived the economy. What a waste of time and money that will be – not to mention the damage that will be done to the country. | Murray |
| The Paris climate agreement has been a disaster from the beginning. National should never have signed us up. | Pauline |
| No – absolutely NOT. NZ should be pulled out ASAP. | Bob |
| Donald Trump has had the courage to say climate change is a load of crap, and it is now great to see many world leaders are thinking along the same lines. Perhaps one day common sense will be restored. | Roger |