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

This is from the CSIRO when you were the environment minister:

Projections for Australia include increases in the frequency of heatwaves … the frequency and length of drought conditions …

And further it says:

… and a substantial increase in the fire-weather risk in south-eastern Australia.

The CSIRO also forecasts that over the next 20 years there will be up to 20 per cent more drought months over most of Australia and, by 2070, up to 40 per cent more drought months are projected in eastern Australia and up to 80 per cent more in south-western Australia. That is what the CSIRO said in 2007, the CSIRO reporting when the Leader of the Opposition was in fact the environment minister. Those opposite I would strongly challenge to actually embrace what the science says and the responsibility—

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