Doug Cameron (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, it certainly is a stunt. What we have here is analysis by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences that backs up everything that is being said by scientists not only in Australia but around the world—that is, that global warming is real, sea levels are rising and the climate is getting more unpredictable, and that there are significant health implications and significant implicat­ions for infrastructure around the world.

The only people in Australia that I see consistently standing up and opposing this consensus among scientists are those in the coalition who have been absolutely captured by the extremists and climate change deniers. We have Senator Cormann, who, as I indicated in my last contribution, does not mind sharing a stage with Lord Monckton, the biggest climate change denier in the world. People treat him as an absolute joke. But we had Senator Cormann queuing up to get Lord Monckton's autograph.