Mark Furner (Queensland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

No, this is true! He went on further to say that as a plan he had to be convinced about it, but this is his belief. When I heard about this, I thought this could not be the Dr Jensen that I know—and certainly not George Jetson or his boy, Elroy—but it is certainly Dr Jensen claiming that the best way to tackle climate change and protect the reef is to shoot these sunshades into orbit.

The US did some estimates based on how much this would cost, if it were possible, and the estimates have come back that it would cost $200 trillion dollars to make that come about. It is just another example of how those sceptics and the climate sceptics opposite us would deal with this particular issue of climate change. Something that we would watch on The Jetsons is the way they deal with those particular matters!

Returning to what is the future: it alarms me, as a grandfather—particularly as my granddaughter lives up there in Cairns and, hopefully, within a week I will be the proud grandfather of new grandson.