We all know the drill.
The Govt talks big on the world stage, then keeps polluting at home. #climatechange pic.twitter.com/gVuvOV7w88— Green Party NZ (@NZGreens) December 15, 2015
Here's where National granted #oildrilling permits today, including just 10km off the Marlborough Sounds pic.twitter.com/yWKuY6PIB9
— Green Party NZ (@NZGreens) December 16, 2015
Here’s the Green’s press release…
What plan was that? There was and is no plan. Paris amounted to a PR exercise in the end. Nothing that came from it is based on the available science.
Humanity cannot limit warming to 1.5 degrees. Neither can we limit warming to 2 degrees (okay – there is a very slim chance on that front if we act now [yesterday], but since Paris pushed everything back to 2020….)
My point is that there can only be hypocrisy where acts fail to marry up to words, but since the the words spoken and signed up to in Paris were meaningless…
My impression is they agreed to meet in a few years to see if anyone did anything…
That’d be the 21st time they’ve come up with that devastatingly effective course of action, yes? It’s worked wonders so far.
Oh yes. What they seem to agree is they have to pretend to have agreed something so they can be unfettered at home from doing what has always been done.
But of course in a few years time the current lot will not be in office and Sir John will be swanning around in long term denial.
Indeed.
Emissions cut as promised under Kyoto – Bennett
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/292405/emissions-cut-as-promised-under-kyoto-bennett
As idiot savant puts it, Key, Groser and Bennett are guilty of climate fraud.
But fraud is what bakers are good at, isnt it?
http://norightturn.blogspot.co.nz/2015/12/climate-change-policy-based-on-fraud.html
http://norightturn.blogspot.co.nz/2015/12/climate-change-how-bad-is-nzs-climate.html
bakers?
Just days after signing, “Nine new oil and gas exploration permits have been granted…
“The permits in Block Offer 2015 went to Singapore-based Mont D’Or Resources, Austrian company OMV and New Zealand’s Todd and Petrochem.” http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11561979
This is terrible – if you look at one of the areas – we are talking about the top of the south, namely Golden Bay and Tasman Bay out to Durville. This is an amazingly beautiful, culturally rich area, within which sits the Able Tasman National Park, Onetahua (Farewell Spit) the amazing nature reserve, home to many international wading birds and scarce endemic bird species – not to mention the other countless areas worthy of protection. The first stage of putting these areas at risk is this one, I hope we can stop this before it starts.
With oil at $36/barrel, no one is ever going to seriously explore these blocks, let alone go into production.