Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

One Nation is opposing this. No. 1: arbitrary statements about weather are not indicative of climate. Forecasts of weather are not reliable. On 11 December BOM's forecast told ministers: 'No rain until April.' Today up to 500 millimetres of rain could fall in Queensland over the next 24 hours: 'Australia's east experiences heaviest February rain in 20 years.' No. 2: I've read this State of the Climate 2018 report, to which Senator Waters refers. It contains no evidence of anything unusual. There is no climate crisis mentioned, much less evidenced. No. 3: there is no climate emergency. Science requires solid, empirical data in a logical scientific framework that proves cause and effect. It's now day 149 since I challenged Senator Waters to provide the empirical data and logic proving human carbon dioxide affects climate and needs to be cut. Senator Waters has run from my invitations to debate her on climate. The first was 10 years ago.