Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I draw honourable members’ attention to the content of this important new report—and again for the benefit of the honourable member up the back, who seems to dispute the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scientists—which says as follows:

The newest evidence indicates that society faces serious risks even with a global temperature rise of only about 2 degrees. If society wants to minimize these risks, then action must be taken now.

The chair of the committee, Professor Richardson, said:

Society has all the tools necessary to respond to climate change.

And most poignantly, Professor Richardson—

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