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# Spare Us the Climate Posturing, Jacinda
- URL: https://goodoil.news/spare-us-the-climate-posturing-jacinda/
- Published: 2021-10-31T22:30:50.000Z
- Updated: 2021-10-30T22:44:58.000Z
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: AUS Politics, Climate Change, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:31

For all **Jacinda Ardern**’s posturing as the Climate Queen of the South Pacific, the hard reality of New Zealand’s greenhouse emissions is far from matching up to its virtue-signalling prime minister’s rhetoric.

Hypocritically, given that the representatives of the world’s single biggest — and growing — greenhouse gas emitter were standing by, Ardern chose to lash Australia at the last Pacific Islands Forum. Oddly, despite her promise to *“talk frankly”* about climate change at the meeting, she notably failed to take the Chinese to task over their gargantuan carbon footprint.

No, indeed. Like all two-faced bullies, Ardern picked a much smaller target, wittering that “*Australia has to answer to the Pacific”*.

Yet, for all Ardern’s self-serving posturing, it’s Australia that’s reducing its emissions — certainly not China, and, as it turns out, not New Zealand, either.

> New Zealand wants to “sneer” at Australia over climate while its emissions are going up and Australia’s are going down, according to Sky News host **Chris Kenny**.  
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> “Australia has cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent since 2005, 20 per cent, and hasn’t it caused us plenty of economic pain,” Mr Kenny said.  
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> “What about New Zealand? Well, the authoritative climate tracker website give the Kiwis a bad rating, just as they do to Australia.  
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> “But they find that under present Nationally Determined Contributions, New Zealand’s net emissions could be four per cent above 2005 levels by 2030.”  
>  
> [MSN](https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/new-zealand-s-hypocrisy-on-climate-change/?ref=goodoil.news)

Sure, New Zealand is a small fish in the global economic and geopolitical pond – and its total greenhouse gas emissions are commensurately small. But, as Kenny points out, *“the claim is that we all have to do our bit. And woke New Zealand certainly wants to claim that it’s doing its bit on climate action”.*

Except, it’s not. Jacinda Ardern is not even going to Glasgow – something **Scott Morrison** was endlessly harried to do, by the woke-elite.

*“So woke is the land of the long white cloud,”* says Kenny, that even its Reserve Bank has jumped on the bandwagon. Consider this from its *Climate Changed 2021 and Beyond* booklet:

> “It notes that the country’s foreign bond holdings ‘have a greater weight towards higher-emitting countries (e.g. Australia and Canada’) and a smaller weight towards lower emitting countries.”

(It might be pointed out that [both the UK and Japan’s emissions actually exceed Australia’s](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-country?ref=goodoil.news), but, hey: since when have facts mattered in a climate debate?).

Let the virtue-signalling begin!

The RBNZ claims that in the future it will *“cut its holdings of bonds issued by big carbon emitters”.*

Yet, Ardern is inching closer and closer to signing on to China’s Belt and Road Initiative — and she’s avoiding the supposed *“last chance for humanity”* climate change alarmism international gabfest. Then again, she does have a tendency to avoid situations where she might be asked tough questions.

**Still, as Chris Kenny rightly says: “Can you believe the nerve and hypocrisy of these people?”**

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