Now this is “speaking truth to power”:

Cited environmental benefits of Meridian Energy’s proposed Project Hayes wind farm were based on misleading scientific information, an Environment Court appeal hearing in Cromwell was told yesterday.

Prof Bob Carter, of Queensland, Australia, appeared as a witness for appellant Roch Sullivan to give evidence at the hearing on issues of climate change.

Prof Carter said the Government’s justification of its support of Project Hayes - in order to reduce global warming - was a waste of time and money.

“No significant increase in global average temperature has occurred since 1998 despite an increase in carbon dioxide over the same period of about 5%.”

…”A human effect on global climate change has not yet been distinguished and measured . . . meanwhile, global temperature change is occurring, as it always naturally does, and a phase of cooling has succeeded the mild late 20th century warming,” he said.

Prof Carter said the available scientific data on global warming did not justify the belief carbon dioxide emission controls could be used as a means of managing or stopping future climate change, which the Government believed Project Hayes could do.

Therefore, the Government’s notion of global warming, which prompted its 10-year moratorium on new fossil fuel power stations, would cost taxpayers dearly for no additional environmental benefit, he said.

It’s unlikely that they’ll listen.  Before all is said and done, the world will be wasting a lot more time and money on this nonsense.

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