Pat Conroy (Shortland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to speak on Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2016-2017 and Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2016-2017. In my contribution I want to concentrate on the appropriations to the Department of Environment and Energy, particularly outcome 2, regarding efforts to reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions. To set the scene, last week the World Meteorological Organization found that the record-breaking temperature rises of last year have pushed us into 'uncharted territory'—2016 was the hottest year since measurements began in 1880. In fact, there is very strong evidence that it was the hottest year in the 115,000 years since evidence of the last global warming event. In our own Australian summer, which was very hot, we broke 205 temperature records across the period.

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