Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern and Remote Australia) Share this | Hansard source

That is interesting. But I think you would acknowledge that the UK Met Office does say that. No less than the head of the United Nations commission on climate change, in Australia recently, was quoted as saying that those who accuse anyone who does not agree with the government line as being deniers, or worse, should not be attributed to him—even the guy in charge of the UN climate change commission says it needs debate. What he and the UK Met Office are saying is that it is not as clear a scientific outcome as the Labor government and some of the CSIRO research would have you believe. I just mention that in passing while talking on the CSIRO report, and hope they might take some notice.