$600,000 is the ball park figure for what was spent sending a delegation of 32 to the Copenhagen farce.Nick Smith thinks he understands why the taxpayers who funded this expedition might be a little sour.
"It's disappointing for the taxpayer to have expenditure of $600,000 and we didn't make much progress."The man is so out of touch, the whole climate change scam is unraveling on a daily basis, the supposed "sound science" upon which it is based is anything but. The European Emissions Trading Scheme is riddled with fraud and is costing jobs in the EU.
And while the Government makes noises about "catching up with Australia" Nick Smith is still hell bent on introducing our own Emissions Trading Scheme to further hamstring growth and productivity. An ETS is of course a bullet that Australia has dodged.
He still seems to think the science is sound
Dr Smith says the errors would "inevitably" have an effect on New Zealand's climate change policy, but that the Government would take a cautious approach to any changes made.The unanswered question is, is this man digging a hole for his political career, ordinary New Zealanders or both?
"I've had calls from people who want us to abandon or defer the Emissions Trading Scheme," he said. "That's not what the Government is going to do."