Saturday, August 15, 2026

Luxon doubles down on ‘Net Zero’

Luxon on Net Zero

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to achieving Net Zero, insisting New Zealand remains on course to meet its climate targets despite a stark warning from the ‘Climate Change’ Commission that current policies leave future emissions budgets at serious risk.

While Luxon maintained the country could even reach its Net Zero goal ahead of schedule, the commission said urgent policy changes are needed within the next two years, citing concerns over the Emissions Trading Scheme and the impact of continued fossil fuel investment.



Critics argue the Prime Minister’s determination to pursue Net Zero comes despite mounting questions over the economic costs, controversial science, and the commission’s own assessment that existing measures are insufficient to achieve the required emissions reductions.

“Our view is based on the fact we’re on track to deliver emissions budgets one and two. There’s more work to do for emissions budget three and beyond, and our indications are we’re on track for net zero. We may even do it a few years earlier,” said Luxon.

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  1. So let me get this right. Man made CO2 emissions causes the earth to warm but natural CO2 from volcanos and oceans don’t!!!!!!!.
    Alternatively, there is Roger Higgs
    https://iowaclimate.org/2019/06/09/25-simple-bullet-points-proving-co2-does-not-cause-global-warming-by-a-geologist-for-a-change/
    Point 5 is super interesting.
    “The ‘Greenhouse Hypothesis’, on which IPCC’s belief in AGW is based, is that atmospheric gases trap heat. But this old (19th century) notion is merely an idea, not a hypothesis, because it is untestable, impossible to prove in a laboratory as no experimental container can imitate Earth’s uncontained, well-mixed atmosphere.”

    And there is more
    https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/another-skeptical-nobel-laureate-of-physics-climate-science-has-metastasized/

    The global warming fear psyop is a scam. Ask the National party for evidence and they ghost you.

    • And the seas are warming due to undersea volcanoes!
      Volcanism is responsible for ‘climate changes’ over the centuries and epochs, and this is just another methodology to steal money from ratepayers and feed it into useless ‘energy saving’ projects.
      Not to Lex Luxon-
      1. Where is my government subsidy voucher to convert my petrol vehicle over to LPG for 99% cleaner fuel burn???
      (Pros & cons of LPG)
      https://carfromjapan.com/article/problems-with-lpg-converted-cars/
      2. Why hasn’t Hydrogen fuel and vehicles not been expanded??? (works fine on modern-day German U-Boats…)
      https://www.nzhydrogen.org/nz-hydrogen-projects
      3. Why hasn’t KiwiRail adopted LNG for their locomotives?
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_tVBs2GcXE
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFIflrtxue8
      4. Will the new Chinese-built Ferries also be dual-fuel?
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2DcbeBTZKM
      5. What about Natural Gas / LPG / LNG being used to power homes in New Zealand?
      Or Hydrogen-burning power plants that do the same?
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QxWg6mZ3Sk
      I’m sure that these technologies will eventually arrive here in New Zealand, but not before the politicians in Parliament have their stock brokers secure the same for them prior to enacting any law that will green light the conversions.
      And… I don’t want to hear any bullshit about New Zealand ‘running out of natural gas or oil’…a stock options newsletter from NZ Oil & Gas from 16 years ago stated that New Zealand has over 400+ years of oil still in the ground both onshore and offshore, and that our natural gas supply is 440 years!
      In the meantime, I DEMAND that Parliament enact emergency energy funding to modernise and re-open Marsden Point for energy refinement and independence away from the ‘Global Oil market’ which is in plain view of being tactically and strategically compromised, no thanks to the meddling, Israeli-controlled narcissistic manipulative psychopaths in Washington, DC (District of Criminals..)

  2. Mr luxon you’re an absolute moron with a thick skin and just bone for brain. Read the room man. Just because you’re pm doesnt mean you’re the brightest star. It means you’re the convenient fool who has fallen for the biggest lie and you expect the rest of us to. People are waking up to the net zero scam. Fool. Dangerous fool.

  3. Through his own stupidity, Luxon is not going to be prime minister for too much longer.

    The economy just won’t put up anymore nonsense.

  4. Can yuu olease publish the names of the people in the ‘Climate Change’ Commission ?

    They need to be named and shamed.

  5. Anyone supporting net zero is a fool and a traitor to New Zealand. Egg head, you are impressing no intelligent person by following a ludicrous idea. Go boil your egg.

  6. And yet, they’re full steam ahead on Data Centres that use horrendous amounts of power to run and require astonishing quantities of fresh water for cooling. All of which is hugely destructive to the environment.

    Go home Luxon, you dopy, walking dildo. And take all the rest of those parasites known as politicians with you. Along with the civil servants that are the permanent and unelected government of this country.

  7. I’m committed to voting YOU out of office mate and ensuring the other climate crowd Labour and co don’t get in either…..

  8. Have they given up on being re-elected or are so out of touch, they think they can do and say whatever they please and people will still vote for them anyway? Granted NZ voters are hardly the most discerning bunch but this India Trade/Immigration deal, heavy borrowing, treating Kiwi road users universally like potential druggies, proposed road tax/surveillance and now pushing the climate lie, is, I would think, a recipe for being chucked out of office on your ear. Suffice to say no, “living life to the max” under this mob. Roll on the next election.

    • Globy, I talk to many ppl, many youngsters, and these ppl do not fill in questionaries or polls.
      If we have elections this Nov, and if they are not encumbered by fake votes (a whole other topic), things at that stage (economy/treasury/energy etc.) will have changed the landscape, totally, protracted, chronically and radically.
      Barely a quarter away, and hardly anyone sees the wall. i’ll remind ya.
      But this is why they try to legislate all that insane stuff now, before going down the sinkhole.

  9. The Corporation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the owner of the New Zealand Company, has issued instructions via its current selected Prime Minister (CEO) Christopher Luxon, that Net Zero climate targets are non- negotiable. That’s how ‘their’ democracy rolls.

  10. The engineered scarcity dogma—a deliberate strategy to control the population through fear, restrictions, fees, and surveillance. The transnational cartel manufactured the illusion of shortage to keep humanity dependent. But the math doesn’t lie. The inflated census data has been corrected. The planet was never overpopulated. The perceived restriction was the result of targeted strategic retention and blockade of resources by the legacy system itself. Now the transition begins. Frequency-based water generation turns arid regions into vital habitats. Decentralized desalination plants operating on electromagnetic resonance—without chemical waste—make pure drinking water a fundamental right. Molecular synthesis patents eliminate dependency on monopolized supply chains. Heirloom seeds and vibrational soil regeneration technologies multiply agricultural yields without straining nature. Barren landscapes become fertile. The planetary abundance model is being activated. The scarcity matrix is being dismantled. But the transformation goes deeper. The global sovereignty cascade is synchronizing the liquidation of the corporate matrix worldwide. Every nation—Europe, Australia, the Americas—is inextricably linked via commercial law to the parent corporation in Washington. When the primary parent corporation dissolves, the subsidiaries worldwide lose their legal legitimacy at the exact same moment. The transition from maritime law to land law executes simultaneously. No one is left behind.

    • “No one is left behind.”
      The crushing mantra of the UNEP dogma, old communist 10 yr plans, with bread and circuses.
      SDG Articles:
      (4) As we embark on this great collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left behind.
      (5) This is an Agenda of unprecedented scope and significance. It is accepted by all countries and is applicable to all… These are universal goals and targets which involve the entire world, developed and developing countries alike. They are integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development ~ economic, social and environmental.
      (28) We commit to making fundamental changes in the way that our societies produce and consume goods and services. We encourage the implementation of the 10Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns.
      (38) Sport is also an important enabler of sustainable development.

      Keep in mind that a legion of over-paid kakistocrats, politicians and municipal parasites will be thoroughly insulated from the effects and consequences of their dogma and edicts.

  11. He is playing a game of deception pretending to be acting in the interests of NZ.
    Meanwhile net zero regulation H&S licencing red is killing us.
    He is working for overseas glabalist interests same as labor.
    DISCRACEFUL LIAR TRATOR……

  12. It is a war against humanity and life itself. The useful idiots in politics and government offices just haven’t realized yet that they, too, will be on the hit list when they are no longer needed.

  13. This man lives in a globalist bubble …. thinks we living in the old days when we believed the government and mainstream media. I hate the traitor

  14. Nobody is that stupid, currently taking his orders from an unelected globalist regime, carrying on Ardern and Hipkins treason

  15. How low will National go in the polls until the other candidates and sitting National MPs pass a no confidence vote in Luxon.

    The writing is on the wall. Luxon’s greed for control and pay will sink National for the next 3 to 6 years.

    Pull finger Chris Bishop and get it done.

  16. It’s hard to understand this idiot of a prime minister. The economy is on its knees. Builders are out of work, Taxes, fees, levies, stamp duty, gst, paye, acc, road user charges and dozens upon dozens more has stripped many down to just food and shelter. Just so many don’t even have that. A welfare state. People want to work but the job market has shrunk. You can’t get the economy back in one term. Green policies are not a priority when people are destitute.

    Evident by the billions business haven’t paid or claimed in tax. What a complete clown of a prime minister.

    I believe minor parties are gaining strength because people have lost faith in Luxon and Hipkins. Those main parties are polling way below historical trends. Hope they become the minor parties themselves.

    For the first time, I am voting for Winston Peters party NZ First. He is not perfect But he alone has the experience and proven history on how this nation has to change to let businesses thrive and grow. To employe people. Not for paper shuffling.

    Heres a clue for you Luxon, Just far to many individual courts, authorities and unaffordable penalties. Only the insurance companies are making profit. Heathy homes are wonderful, Employment courts are a good idea, Tenancy courts are nice to have, but at those levels of penalties have pushed costs that the end user pays the price or private enterprise withdraws or collapse. David Seymour is aware how compliance has made insurance companies kings. Those Insurance companies don’t do a dam thing for the economy. Neither do the lawyers. Bureaucracy has stepped in ripped the nation of its wealth. It has risen to a level that is beyond what was originally intended.

    Lets get back to basic economics. Extreame biases tribunals are draining unnecessary wealth. Business are handing it over to insurance companies and feeding lawyers who make nothing for the nation.

    Family Court is another area that has to be addressed. Some clown thought 3 years of relationship equals 50% of all assets regardless of who paid for them. Theres your low birthrate and high housing crisis right there. Again unbalanced and ridiculous policies have their consequences. More houses and infrastructure and bureaucracy.

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