House debates Questions without Notice
Climate Change
Peter Garrett Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Heritage
3:14 pm
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister’s glowing reference for the member for Tangney, which was quoted in the West Australian on 6 September 2006. Does the Prime Minister recall praising the member for Tangney’s ‘expertise as a research scientist’? Is the Prime Minister aware that the climate change report from four government members of parliament, including the member for Tangney—
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David Hawker Speaker
Order! The member for Kingsford Smith will be heard.
Peter Garrett Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Heritage
Is the Prime Minister aware that the climate change report from four government MPs, including the member for Tangney, released today states:
The evidence that human beings are changing the global climate is certainly not compelling.
It also states:
Another problem with the view that [humans] have caused warming is that warming has also been observed on Mars, Jupiter, Triton, Pluto, Neptune and others.
Peter Garrett Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Heritage
Prime Minister, what planet are these government MPs on?
John Howard Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister
Hardly on the planet inhabited by people who hate the Australian coal industry.