Pete Hodgson has utterly failed to explain how he plans to invoke Kyoto Protocol restrictions, ACT MP Gerry Eckhoff said today.

"Mr Hodgson claims to have ruled out 2000 Treasury advice that he must hike petrol taxes by 70 cents in order to comply with the Kyoto Protocol's carbon dioxide restrictions.

"Mr Hodgson has accused me of having 'kangaroos in the top paddock'. At least there is activity in my top paddock, which is more than I could say for Mr Hodgson and his Government.

"The fact that Mr Hodgson even considered taxing flatulent cows shows how asinine his Government's thinking is.

"The World is starting to recognise that global warming is a figment of politicians' imagination. It is an effective means of wealth distribution which appeases the conscience of the industrialised Western world.

"Climatologists are refuting the claims of pseudo-scientists, showing that global warming is a product of a natural cycle. Yet Mr Hodgson is determined to make New Zealanders pay for his doomsday fantasies," Gerry Eckhoff said.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>