Maureen Pugh

The National MP's comments Climate Change Minister James Shaw to ask if Pugh believes in “reality and or gravity”.

We have cooled and warmed, cooled and warmed over millions of years.” I am waiting on the evidence from the minister that provides that evidence,” she said. I’ve seen the impact and the evidence of years and years of mining that shows you... I’ve seen the evidence of it. “Of course I believe in climate change. *

This includes adaptation measures such as managed retreat in coastal and flood-prone areas alongside efforts to contribute a fair share to the global cause of ...

“We need to make sure that we’re acting in a way that treats the people whose lives have been turned upside down fairly and with a good degree of compassion and respect. And we’ll work as fast as we can.” I’ve got a lot she can read. He said he had been “very clear” with the caucus that climate change was real and the party was committed to net carbon zero 2050. “It is not what I think. It is what I can prove. “I’ve seen it up front, have dealt with businesses that have had to adjust to climate change all around the world and also here in New Zealand. “Some of the impacts that I’ve seen, a lot of the damage that was done, especially around Auckland, was because people weren’t allowed to prune and manage trees,” Pugh said. She said she was not denying that the climate did change, which had “warmed and cooled over millions of years”. She was then asked again specifically about climate change, responding with reference to back-to-back cyclones that struck the West Coast in 2018: “That’s just things that nature throws at us.” National Party leader Christopher Luxon has been working hard to reposition his party as taking the climate crisis seriously, recently saying there was “no doubt” Cyclone Gabrielle was influenced by climate change, which in turn had been affected by human actions. National MP Maureen Pugh says she is “waiting on the evidence” to show climate change has been influenced by human actions.

The comments were made by National list MP Maureen Pugh, who is based in West Coast - Tasman, and follows a tragic and fatal weather system which has left at ...

A warmer planet can influence, for example, sea temperatures, which can in turn influence the scale, intensity and frequency of storms. The Earth is 1.1 degrees Celsius warmer than it was in the late 1800s. This is mainly through burning fossil fuels, which release - in particular - carbon into the atmosphere, according to the They're at exactly what the models have been predicting for decades." "The climate has already changed. the tragedy we're dealing with". quite frequently and extreme high temperatures". While the planet is warming, that does not necessarily mean climate change brings warmer weather. That is not my position," she said. I am waiting on the evidence from the minister. Hayward said the comments showed a "lack of discipline" and were "unfortunate" and "really unhelpful" in the midst of a natural disaster which had been exacerbated by climate change. they're just things that nature throws at us.

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In a statement this afternoon, Pugh said she accepted the scientific consensus that human-induced climate change was real and that it was a factor in extreme ...

Pugh also denied she had been instructed to issue her second statement and put her earlier comments down to nervousness talking to the media. “I’ve got to say this is not my comfort zone. He had had a conversation with Pugh about it. “It is not what I think. That is not my position.” It is what I can prove.

The parliamentary year has begun in New Zealand, with a new leader in Chris Hipkins and the new dominant issues of Cyclone Gabrielle and climate change.

And yet there she was continuing to work. She's very comfortable to read the books that I've asked her to read and (gain) knowledge," Mr Luxon said. and in the room next door, a makeshift health clinic. "I was talking to one of the nurses working there and with a tear in her eye she told me she had lost everything. I've said to her, 'our position is very clear'. "I've met with Maureen.

Chris Hipkins may have test-run New Zealand Labour's next campaign slogan on his first day in parliament as prime minister. After succeeding Jacinda Ardern as ...

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National MP Maureen Pugh says she is “waiting on the evidence” to show climate change has been influenced by human actions. Pugh's comments come as the Gov.

“We need to make sure that we’re acting in a way that treats the people whose lives have been turned upside down fairly and with a good degree of compassion and respect. And we’ll work as fast as we can.” I’ve got a lot she can read. “It is not what I think. He said he had been “very clear” with the caucus that climate change was real and the party was committed to net carbon zero 2050. It is what I can prove.

The leader of the opposition sought to square the constructive and the critical in response to the PM's statement. Toby Manhire watches at parliament.

“When I became the prime minister, I said that we would set a new direction for the government and that we would have our focus squarely on the basics, including the cost of living, that is affecting New Zealanders,” he said, in an effort to dovetail the two approaches. Where he went adrift, however, was in parts of the speech that derided Hipkins as more of the same, part of the “holy trinity”, with Jacinda Ardern and Grant Robertson, that had been running things since 2017. He demanded that the government provide more than just a ballpark figure for the response, but “compartmentalise and define the cost”. There is only so long that he and his newly assigned cyclone response minister and taskforce will be able to avoid talking specifics. Even more oddly, he lambasted a speech “written for Jacinda Ardern and delivered by Chris Hipkins”. The emphasis on the government’s delivery shortcomings is fertile ground, and Luxon enumerated the territory. Enough with the “bumper stickers and headlines”. He was “deeply, deeply sceptical”. He stressed that National would be “supportive and constructive” in the Gabrielle response, that it was “about New Zealand, not about politics right now” and he was committed to being “pragmatic and practical”. In his first speech as prime minister in the House of Representatives, Hipkins couldn’t resist a flick at the farrago. The centrepiece of the first day back at parliament proper was the statement from the prime minister. Just a few hours later, after National staff had finished banging their heads on their desks, Pugh was wheeled out to explain that, yes, of course she believed in human-caused climate change.

The National Party MP has walked back on comments she made at Parliament on Tuesday morning about awaiting evidence that humans have contributed to climate ...

"She's owned that statement, that's her statement". I probably wasn't calm enough this morning to articulate properly". That is not my position". Pugh had come out and said "she does support and believe in science and that man-made efforts have contributed to climate change, absolutely, and that's her position, Luxon said. Christopher Luxon said they had had a "conversation where it's really clear about understanding that actually, there is no dispute that there is science that strongly suggests and that does suggest that man-made climate change is real, and I'm a firm believer in that". A few hours later, Pugh emerged with a statement she read out to reporters, which said she "regretted that her comments ...

This morning, Pugh was "waiting for evidence" that humans caused climate change. This afternoon, Pugh accepted the scientific consensus.

We are very supportive of the programmes, the emissions trading scheme.” “I wasn't probably calm enough this morning to articulate properly. * By Tuesday afternoon, Pugh accepted the scientific consensus that human-induced Pugh said she accepted “the scientific consensus that human induced climate change is real and there is a need to curb greenhouse gas emissions”. [said she had not seen the evidence](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/131287875/nationals-maureen-pugh-waiting-for-evidence-on-human-impact-on-climate-change) around the human impact of climate change and whether humans had caused climate change.

The West Coast list MP caused a stir in Parliament yesterday when she said she's "yet to see" evidence of man-made climate change.

That is not my position," she said. "You can't be living in the twenty-first century and deny that human-induced climate change is real." I am waiting on the evidence from the minister.

"I just think there are bigger things to worry about in this country than piling on Maureen Pugh."