TomofNZ1

@KeeganLangeveld @nzfirst Absolute yawn 🥱. Attack out commitments to Paris agreement and undrip, not the india FTA, which will be good for NZ

Parmjeet Parmar attempted to attack @nzfirst for their opposition to the India FTA... NZ First hit back with facts... Parmjeet's 59 likes vs. NZF's 743. The New Zealand public see through this terrible India FTA and reject it, only NZ First is pushing back.

@RusselNorman Agree on energy sovereignty, we need to get right into NZs oil and gas potential and become a wealthy nation to help fund the dreamland you wank about

Smart Govts do everything they can to cut fossil fuel dependency. Reduce climate pollution, reduce Trumpflation, increase energy sovereignty.

@nzfirst @MikeNewZ_ You guys have gone full cooker on GE bill and the India FTA. Quite odd

"We must never stop believing in a country called New Zealand." CAMPAIGN LAUNCH: 2pm, this Sunday, 19 July at Due Drop Events Centre. See you there 🇳🇿 nzfirst.nz/leaders_addres…

@IrishAotearoan @justinb24448577 @dbseymour You do say a lot of really dumb stuff. It’s cute though 😘

@justinb24448577 @dbseymour Is that the best you can do, foul language? Come here with an argument. Do better. Otherwise you’re not better than the schoolyard bully

Police officer gives a week’s notice that he’s joining Labour, there’s an enquiry. Board member at TVNZ resigns and joins Act that day: crickets! That’s not equity or equality @dbseymour, it’s corrupt

@AucklandIsland Jacinda Ardern just messaged me confirming she doesn’t

@AucklandIsland Does Clare K have a brain?

What a clusterfuck.Why did Willis cancel the ferries? We would've had one by now, rail-able and part solar powered, brand new with port facilities Willis has given us nothing.

@matt_horncastle It gets you out of bed in the morning

The good thing about some debt is it makes you be productive.

How can @GreenpeaceNZ @nickofnz @NZGreens continue to push their ideology of lies around this topic? The scientific reality calls BS on their hyperbolic claims. Following the recent OCR change, many economists and local govt leaders on @radionz highlighted how important the dairy industry remains to NZ’s economy and regional communities. Yet the @NZGreens want to significantly reduce the industry’s contribution and the economic benefits it provides. These groups don’t have NZ’s best interests at heart. nzherald.co.nz/the-country/ne…

@Electroversenet @nickofnz agrees

New research claims human emissions are not driving atmospheric CO2. A paper by Dai Ato ran multiple linear regressions for 1959 to 2022, testing two predictors of the annual CO2 increase: sea surface temperature and human emissions. The result was clear: when the oceans warmed, CO2 levels rose almost exactly in step - about two to three parts per million for every one degree Celsius of warming. Adding human emissions to the model didn't change the outcome. Using only ocean temperature, the model reproduced global CO2 levels with near-perfect accuracy - a correlation of 0.995 and an error of just one to two ppm by 2022. The main factor governing the annual increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration is sea surface temperature rather than human emissions. Earlier studies have shown the same pattern. Temperature changes first, CO2 follows. If Ato is correct, cutting human emissions won't lower atmospheric CO2 because it's the oceans that set the pace.

Yeah, India’s PVR regime and enforcement risks are fair concern. But that’s a commercial risk, not evidence that the FTA requires NZ to surrender cultivar IP. The agreement facilitates licensing and commercialisation of protected cultivars, it doesn’t mean assignment of ownership. The real question is whether the expected royalties and market access justify the IP risks. That’s presumably why the FTA also commits to improving India’s plant variety rights and IP framework

India's PPV Act explicitly allows farmers to save and sell seeds of even protected varieties. Ownership without control over propagation is useless. If we help change their PVR Act it is still only India domestic law which they are free to change again as they wish. They rejected UPOV - the international plant variety protection regime - and are not bound by it.

It's time for accountability. 93 MPs voted yes. Not one mentioned uncappable visas or cultivar transfer. No one questioned the economic model that ignored its own immigration channels. Our submission on the India FTA enabling legislation - before the House votes a second time.

True that India has little regard for IP rights as of today and to prosecute is very challenging. NZ-India need to get this sorted first and I believe that is well recognised. Your last point though “they keep the IP”. Really? In this case Plant Variety Rights (IP) is legally owned, India cannot just take ownership

No transfer of cultivars and skills means no access to their markets. That is coercion to transfer IP just to sell into India that these companies would not do otherwise. That is not a part of any trade agreement prior to this FTA. India is ranked one of the worst IP offenders in the world. If the FTA falls through, or tariffs are clawed back due to our inability to invest an improbable FDI amount into India, they keep the IP and we lose everything - the investment along with our competitive advantage.

Have read it. Are you sure it’s accurate? The FTA does not require compulsory surrender of cultivar ownership. It’s by agreement and subject to relevant IP protection in India and NZ. Thats like any commercial licensing agreement where a company has chosen to out licence its IP to another party. Firstly, NZ-India must create conditions in which protected cultivars can be licensed, grown, and protected in India, and then NZ will receive a royalty income stream in return. That’s leveraging our IP and is generally how it’s done.

@TomofNZ1 See Section 3 of our submission above.

@TomANelson @nickofnz is unhappy with this graph

Fastest Warming Place on Earth update

@PeterDClack @nickofnz agrees

Carbon dioxide makes up just 420 ppm of Earth’s atmosphere — 1 molecule in 2,500, as shown in this image. It’s a trace gas but its role in the global warming debate looms large. Are we getting the full picture from CO₂ measurements? Where do CO₂ readings come from? Global CO₂ averages, like the 426 ppm reported in 2025, come from sites like Mauna Loa in Hawaii, chosen for its remote location to minimise local influences. Yet, CO₂ levels vary around 400 ppm in open air, 400–1,000 ppm indoors. Urban areas, which cover just 3% of global land, can show higher readings. Are these measurements fully representative or do they reflect specific environments? CO₂ is heavier than air (molecular weight 44 vs 29) but it’s well-mixed globally due to atmospheric circulation. Claims that it pools in low areas are overstated, except in rare cases like volcanic basins. Water vapor is a more potent 'greenhouse gas' at 2–4% of the atmosphere & it plays a bigger role in climate but varies naturally. The atmosphere holds just 1-2% of Earth’s carbon reservoir while oceans store 86%. 0ceans and plants remove vast amounts of CO₂ from the air through photosynthesis & absorption. The ocean currents and biological processes dominate carbon cycling, dwarfing atmospheric contributions. CO₂’s trace presence doesn’t tell the whole story & many questions remain: Are measurement methods transparent? Do they overemphasise certain locations? There is no single CO₂ reading for earth's atmosphere, only a global average, echoing institutionalised fears of ever rising global warming.

@kaiviti_cam The “clowns” need to attack the undrip and Paris commitments, not the FTA, which will be good for NZ

Nats resorting to abuse to convince people of the dubious merits of the India FTA nzherald.co.nz/nz/former-prim…

@HelenClarkNZ agrees

Probably because it will generate an income/return that will help fund #health & social services in the future. @nickofnz agrees

@bayagima No, I just get feedback surveys from the IRD 🥳

Has anyone in here ever been polled for political choice? In all my years it's never happened once to me. Who are they polling?

@nzfirst @Parmjeet_Parmar Then attack our commitment to the Paris accord and undrip and not the FTA 🤯 NZ First has gone full cooker mode on this FTA and the GE Bill.

Actually Parmjeet, we aren’t against free trade or free trade agreements. As you know it was literally in NZF coalition agreement to look at FTAs and specifically an FTA with India. What we are against are bad Free Trade Agreements that are not in NZs best interests. If you talk about the good parts you have to talk about the bad parts Parmjeet. NZFirst has highlighted from day one the reasons this deal is bad. Here’s the real “bad” part - the Indian FTA that YOU voted for includes UNDRIP and Paris Accord clauses…what was it you said…”better to watch what people do instead of what they say”. Indeed.

Sometimes it’s better to watch what people do than what they say. NZ First oppose the India FTA, while their own minister Mark Patterson is off to India promoting wool exports that will soon be tariff-free under it. Go Mark, we wish you every success promoting the FTA!

Recent interviews with economists and local govt on RNZ highlighted how important the dairy industry remains to NZ’s economy and regional communities. Yet the @NZGreens want to significantly reduce the industry’s contribution and the economic benefits it provides. These people don’t have NZ’s best interests at heart. @nickofnz agrees