4. Question No. 4—Prime MinisterCHLÖE SWARBRICK (Co-Leader—Green) to the Acting Prime MinisterQuestion No. 4—Prime Minister4. CHLÖE SWARBRICK (Co-Leader—Green) to the Acting Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his Government's statements and actions?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Acting Prime Minister): As in the case of the first two answers to the identical question the same answer applies now.Chlöe Swarbrick: Does he agree with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs who said—and I quote—Do I believe in climate change? The answer is for thousands and thousands and thousands of years there has been climate change" or does he accept the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change?Hon Kieran McAnulty: What did Ngata say?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Ha ha! Well see what Ngata would have said was that—and you'll see it in Samoa and you'll see it in the Cook Islands—pre-European times no one lived by the foreshore or on the lowlands. They lived as high as they possibly could because over the centuries and down through millennia there had been climate change—that's my answer to that.[Interruption]SPEAKER: Just wait till you get a bit of quiet.Chlöe Swarbrick: Does the Prime Minister accept the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: The reality is we have done our best to bring ourselves up to date constantly with the science on these matters. But I want to say to that member something that you can laugh and scoff but when the Māori were in Christchurch before European times they never lived where the earthquake happened. We ignored them at our peril. But here she is thinking that's a laughing matter. And the same was with the Pacific Islands. Down through millennia they understood there are times of danger with climate change and they never lived in the low part of the country—that's all I was saying. But to turn that into some kind of climate denial argument is ridiculous. For example it's like Mr Hipkins—is he going to Tonga? Is he going to Tuvalu for his first leadership airfare? No; he's going all the way to London to the Labour Party conference. That's how much he cares about climate change in the Pacific. [Interruption]SPEAKER: No hang on. We are going to have silence while questions are asked.Chlöe Swarbrick: Is the Government committed to doing its part to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: For the umpteenth time the Prime Minister in countless speeches—as has the Minister in charge of these matters in terms of the environment countless times has said that so I cannot understand why on earth given the progress we're making that question is being asked here today.Chlöe Swarbrick: Does he agree with comments from former Tuvalu Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga who said when speaking about this Government's planned reversal of the oil and gas ban "don't forget that whatever you are going to do it's going to increase greenhouse gas emissions which are going to sink the islands of Tuvalu and kill the people."?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: What I can agree with is that present Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance have expressed their gratitude to New Zealand for the money that we have set aside in the present Budget for climate change resilience and the long-term survival of that country. They have been enormously grateful to us for us doing that—not just words but real action."