Peter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I will take the fact you are not a climate denier as a yes to that question. Minister, do you also accept that scientists are linking the warming of our oceans to catastrophic changes and impacts we are seeing in our marine habitats, such as three mass coral bleachings on the Great Barrier Reef in the last five years, the loss of Tasmania's giant kelp forests, the vanishing of seagrass beds around the country and the loss of thousands of kilometres of mangrove habitat? Do you accept they are linked to climate change?