What's sauce for the goose aint sauce for the gander.

Now some years ago I spoke briefly with an insurance actuary ... & surprise, surprise. He claimed he had been entrusted with assessing the effects of those climate affecting currents, la nina, & the contrary, on NZ weather patterns ... & my gosh, he found no effect - despite our local tv presenters perenially claiming the contrary. Now this he attributed to NZ being a "long, thin island which obviated much of the impact of these globally significant events." There must be some substance to this, for if such trends could be used to 'lift' insurance premiums, then this certainly would have occurred.
Now our PM must be aware of this phenomenon, that 'NZ is not part of the real world' ... for "arguments about the amount of carbon dioxide emitted through the use of fossil fuels were "false science"... "the next threat to trade from our part of the world is going to be idiotic arguments about food miles and travel miles - don't travel all the way to Australia, think of the carbon footprint, don't buy their food, think of the carbon footprint," albeit it would seem 'scientific consensus' would deem this to be anthropogenically caused.
Obviously she did/does ascribe to Augie Auer's and other independent scientific view ... well for NZ anyway ... "with the extreme weather you've had, the terrible, terrible droughts, followed by bushfires, followed by terrible flooding, I think people know there's issues here and climate's got to be tackled."
Yep, the carbon footprint of the ocker is indeed considerably greater than that of the kiwi & you don't have to be a whiz kid to see this.
This new 'challenge' is engendering all those femine characteristics of which we have become accustomed: guile, fickelness, attribution of blame, disassociation, preciousness ... & deferencehttp://www.nzherald.co.nz/feature/story.cfm?c id=26&objectid=10445325