In order to calculate the farm’s GHG emissions we use a computer model called Overseer. This is its logo.
Just kidding, just kidding.
But really it is the perfect name for something that will increasingly be in charge of farmers, irrespective of what they think of themselves as property and business owners. Did the model developers really think this one through?
Basically I input into this model data on what fuel and fertilisers I’ve used on different areas of the farm, food inputs, herd size, etc. Months later we get a report telling us about our emissions of nitrogen, methane and CO2.
It’s a mark of environmental story change that when I was a kid pollution meant producing all these man-made chemicals and substances that had never existed in the natural world – and then carelessly releasing them into that natural world – as they still do in places like the godforsaken Russian mining town of Norilsk.
Stopping that sort of shit was something I could get onboard for – and still do.
But nowadays, with a lot of that stuff having been beaten back, pollution means increases in the amount of natural stuff – like nitrogen, methane, CO2, etc – and it’s rather difficult to have industry or agriculture that doesn’t do that or alter nature in some other way. In fact it’s pretty much impossible, as thousands of years of forest clearance for British Neolithic farming showed.
We’re human; changing our environment to enable us to live better is pretty much what we do.
Thus I’m sure you will be impressed to know that I’m in the lowest quintile of environmental degredationists. π π π π
However, the latest message about good old Overseer was a bit confusing….
Dear Tom,
Re: 2021/2022 Environmental data (previously called Nutrient Budget data)
We listened to farmers feedback and built an improved system to capture your environmental data. Please find the link to the new portal below. When you go to enter your data, please print off or have the attachment handy to get started in the new system and how to watch the overview video…
Blah, blah, blah. So far, so standard, soooooo boring. But the next bit made my day:
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I think you can all guess that it’s NOT electric!.
Could have been worse I suppose. The prize could have been this.
Yeah baby!
No Minister 
I am sure Borat… I mean Andrei will be along shortly to debunk all of this, Tom, and advise that Norilsk is in fact a pristine ecological sanctuary.
Thankyou Tom , my little bro is still grappling with the BS and when he tries to discuss it, my eyes tend to glaze over. Nightmare does not relate.
How long before a “Modeler” is tasked to address the rubber that is removed from tires and left to wash into water tables and on to the sea.
Then there is all that hot air generated in the big top dealing to the peasants, all contributing to that endangering .003% of the gasses other than Nitrogen 78%, oxygen 21%, Argon .9%, that take simple old me to 99.9% of the atmosphere. I haven’t mentioned the Carbon Dioxide, that will extinguish life on the third planet from the Sun.
We will await the erudition of Mr Mapp who will come by with another withering denigrating assault on independent thought that is contrary to his elitist views as an ex polly.
Those news items from the Alpine regions of NSW and Victoria must make the charlatans who suddenly pivoted from Global Warming given a supplementary descriptive of “Anthropogenic” to increase the impact but now established as a relaunched disastrous planet ending scenario with the new title of “Climate Change “, very happy they took that rebranding step, aye.
Every example employed by the sycophantic MSM seems to merely be weather but it is still going to scare the bejesus out of impressionable young minds who were reported on in tonights propaganda output as facing seriously exponentially rising suicide numbers. Wondering just how long the perpetrator of that misstep will remain on the team benefitting from the over 100 million of bribes from the supreme soviet.
Gravedodger,
You are a declining minority on this issue. Most New Zealanders, especially younger New Zealanders, believe we need to our share in reducing the level of greenhouse gas emissions. They are not brainwashed. They accept the overwhelming scientific consensus.
Did you learn nothing from the Australian election? It is quite clear that voters thought the Morrison government was not doing enough on climate change, hence the election of the “teal” candidates in many of the Liberal’s safest seat.
Admittedly the Nationals did quite well, so that indicates a very real urban rural split in Australia. I guess it is the same in New Zealand given the rise of Groundswell.
You will have noted that National did vote for the emissions targets through to 2030. I therefore anticipate that they will be supporting the goals of He Waka Eke Noa, which includes Fonterra and Fed farmers, among others.
What I saw were candidates in wealthy areas who could afford to virtue signal and were massively backed by a trust fund baby billionaire who won’t even notice the massive increases in electricity and fossil fuel cost imposed by any path to Net Zero. I could see the same stunt being pulled here in National strongholds like Remuera.
By contrast we’ll see how well the Teals and Greens do in future in less hoity toity places – especially in the wake of Australian blackouts and power prices increases caused by the transition to unreliables.
LOL
A lawyer who plays with words, whatever next,
“OVERWHELMING scientific consensus” is a talking point Dr Mapp, a slogan to stifle debate.
Who can argue with that?
What is a “Greenhouse gas” Dr Mapp?
Without the so called “greenhouse effect” would the planet be habitable?
Which gas is the major contributor to the so called “greenhouse effect”?
Is it desirable for politicians to try and control something they cannot actually control and may produce undesirable consequences for humanity if they try?
Can you solve the Navier Stokes equations for a turbulent, non homogenous fluid subject to an unknown but extremely large number of random perturbations?
Can you answer these questions?
No you can’t!
You can only regurgitate talking points.
The future, sir, is unknowable and the Global Warming narrative is just a power grab by unscrupulous politicians aided by third rate scientists who obtain grant money by peddling crap
The earths climate is in a constant state of flux and has been since the earths formation and will be until the end of time when entropy achieves its maximum value and disorder rules
And bozo politicians and other assorted grifters cannot do anything to alter this fact as they find scams to feather their own nests at the expense of the productive elements of society – like farmers and engineers who actually create worthwhile things rather than empty slogans