Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

It is about time for you to start interjecting here, Senator Bernardi. The decade 2001-10 was the warmest decade on record. The CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology have advised that, if we do not reduce our carbon pollution, average temperatures could increase by 2.2 to over 5 degrees Celsius by 2080 as compared with 1990.