Senate debates

Monday, 26 November 2012

Questions without Notice

Climate Change

2:12 pm

Photo of Christine MilneChristine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I do look forward to the minister coming back with those specific figures and also an answer as to whether that is going into Annex B. But I ask a further supplementary question: how can the government justify a target that is not science and evidence based? A five per cent reduction target, given the eight- to 14-gigaton emissions gap to keep us under two degrees is there. How can you justify a target that is not science and evidence based?

Comments

Mark Duffett
Posted on 27 Nov 2012 11:45 am

If the Greens were fair dinkum about science and evidence, they wouldn't be opposing nuclear energy and GM agriculture.