From Russell Norman, NZ Green Party

Minister Groser concealing the truth

Tim ("the Gross") Groser is the minister who thinks climate change is unimportant, is something that will happen in one hundred years, berates the Pacific nations for standing up for climate justice, instructs his ministry to come up with a pathetic, meaningless "discussion document", designed to conceal more than it reveals and then refuses to front up to discussions at a public meeting and allows his officials to take the flack

Yesterday I asked the Minister for Climate Change what Treasury got wrong when it estimated the cost of NZ NOT cutting its emissions at up to $52 billion. His answer still chills me to the bones: