When Independent Senator Steve Fielding met with Australian Climate Change Minister Penny Wong and her chief scientist Professor Penny Sackett he asked one simple question:
Isn’t it true that carbon emissions have been going up and global temperature hasn’t?
Simple enough question I would have thought. After all isn’t that why the Rudd government is pushing ahead with its Carbon pollution Reductions Scheme, because rising CO2 levels are causing global warming. Should have been easy enough to answer. Senator Fielding explains to AM’s Tony Eastley:
Look, firstly I would have to say I am not a sceptic but at the same token, I do want to get to the bottom of the issues. Now up until now, we have seen carbon emissions go up and global temperatures, the way the IPCC has been measuring them, not going up.
Astoundingly Penny Wong has told Steve Fielding that her and the governments scientists would have to get back to him on that.
Steve Fielding
they wanted to rephrase my question not answer it so I have got an agreement with Penny Wong that she would answer my question over the next day or so.
So I am hoping to get that either later today or tomorrow and then we can get to the bottom of it.
Because really, that is a fundamental question – is carbon emissions driving up global temperatures – and there is a question mark over it.
Haven’t we been repeatedly told the science is settled, runaway climate change is at a tipping point etc etc. Are we (the so branded sceptics) the only ones who have noticed for the last decade that the IPCC modelling of increasing global temperatures is not happening even though CO2 levels continue to rise.
What?.. the Australian Climate Change minister and her army of government scientist not to mention a house full of federal politicians (bar the Nationals who read Agmates and can use google search) have not seen the data which is accessible to anybody via a handful of computer clicks.
What else can I say – Unbelievable.
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Agmates Editor Steve Truman
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