Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, in the context of the carbon based industries within the region referred to by the member for Paterson, I would assume that those who accept the science would regard the opposition’s policy on climate change relevant to the long-term development of the coal industry in the Hunter. We know that the Leader of the Opposition has famously declared in the past the settled science—he called it ‘so-called settled science’—of climate change science to be crap. That is his word: ‘The argument is absolutely crap.’ But today he has said this: ‘I am confident based on the science that mankind does make a difference to the climate. Almost certainly the impact of humans on the planet extends to climate.’

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