Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

Just a few weeks ago the IPCC released its summary for policymakers. That document comes at the end of a cycle of analysis which examines all of the peer-reviewed literature and seeks to establish the foundation for understanding the impacts that human induced emissions of greenhouse gases are having on the climate, the effectiveness of mitigation strategies and also the effectiveness of adaptation strategies. That's a vast enterprise involving many thousands of scientists around the world, and it involves essentially an assessment of the peer-reviewed literature and assigning various conclusions in that literature a degree of confidence based on the extent to which the literature either converges or diverges on particular questions. It is an exemplar of the kind of analysis that you call for but don't accept. You know where that document is. I can look it up on the internet and I can provide it to you, or you can google it. But fundamentally you have already indicated that you don't accept the process of science as it is currently practiced, and that's a pretty fundamental stumbling block, isn't it?