New Zealand's legislation at a local, regional and national level is completely undergirded by the assumption that man-made climate change is a real and on-going threat to our society in many ways.
Go to the MfE website and do a search for ‘agenda 21'. You will find that a huge proportion of councils have policies ‘in line with the intentions of UN Agenda21' already in place, yet the vast majority of New Zealanders have never even heard of it.
Fears of rising sea levels are having huge implications on the planning and consents processes for virtually every council which owns land beside the sea.
Livestock farmers are being branded as ‘polluters' and pressured from every side because of the perception being broadcast that their animals are contributing in a major way to dangerous global warming.
On an international level, the move towards biofuels has caused huge food shortages due to crops being re-directed into this area. Part of the rationale behind all this is the climate change/sustainability ethos.
Our school children are being taught politically motivated science which attempts to tell them that carbon is ‘bad' when in fact it is one of the basic building blocks of life.
Organisations like Greenpeace, 350,org, WWF and so on are playing on peoples' scientific ignorance to create a huge fear in peoples' minds, motivating them to get behind a ‘zero carbon' movement when they have no real idea as to what that even means, or what the implications are.
It's a long list and I could go on, but I hope you see how important it is for people to be informed about the other side of this issue.
When Al Gore, who is the polar opposite of Lord Monckton, came to NZ for a very brief visit last year, the cheap seats cost about $800, the dear ones $1250.00.
For only $20 Tauranga residents can come and hear a presentation which is based on fact, not fantasy, given by a man who has no vested interests in making money from the climate scare.

Esther Henderson,
www.climaterealists.org.nz