When is a NZ journalist (and his/her editor) going to have the guts to stand up and report this issue?

I just had a heated discussion today in my local garage while waiting for a WOF. The discussion was with the owner of the garage. Then another customer came along and joined in. The 'heated' aspect was that we were all so hot under the collar about this bloody AGW scam, and the resulting ETS which has been railroaded through into legislation. I have had many such encounters at the 'grass roots'. Only a couple of times have I found warmist believers, and then the discussion is totally useless because they are short on facts and can only talk in generic 'save-the-environment' terms. My anecdotal feel for this AGW thing is that Kiwis' bullshit-ometres are pretty sensitively tuned. And so far there has been plenty of BS. However, MSM are not picking up on that. Which is why you get the Listener only reporting one side of the story. Maybe in 6 to 12 months, when carbon trading starts kicking in and NZ Gummint starts sending half a BILLION hard-earned taxpayer dollars overseas each year in payment for our carbon sins, and as a result prices of all things carbon-based start to spiral out of control, maybe then journalists might start to say 'What's up with that?'

BTW - It's great to see a Kiwi blog on this - good work Andy!

Hi Mike,
I think you are right about the BS-ometers of Kiwis

'Heaven and Earth - Global Warming the missing science' by Ian Plimmer is currently Number 7 in the Whitcoulls top ten

Says a lot to me