Bridges cherry-picks

Simon Bridges seems to wear his Crown prosecutor hat at all times. This means that he cherry-picks evidence to maximise the guilt of the government he criticises. It is sometimes the truth, but not the whole truth; and sometimes just asserted conclusions.

However, the Labour-led coalition must not make undemocratic decisions for the sake of ideology. If they can resist the temptation to keep the Greens happy with outrageous environmental cave-ins, they stand every chance of being more than a one-term government. National put them there by twiddling their thumbs for nine years. Labour is getting some things right as they repair National’s laissez-faire damage. Indeed, if they get a bit smarter at balancing the sometimes conflicting needs of the economy and the environment, the Greens might be redundant in 2020.

For those who have been panicked by climate change preachers, I remind you that well before Al Gore started his very profitable seminars, scientists established that we were still coming out of the last Ice Age. Glaciers always were going to shrink, polar ice caps melt and sea levels rise. As the Earth’s white ice zones shrink, we can expect warming to accelerate because less heat will be reflected into space.

Hugh Webb, Hamilton