"climate change cannot be stopped -- and it isn't even caused by human-created carbon dioxide"

Northern Territory News

THE BOOMING Territory economy is at risk of being "destroyed" by government policy responses to climate change, an academic has said.

There will be winners and losers under the system and reducing carbon dioxide emissions is expected to cost industry a lot of money.

But University of Adelaide mining geology professor Ian Plimer says all the expense will be for nothing, as climate change cannot be stopped -- and it isn't even caused by human-created carbon dioxide.

"There is no relationship between carbon dioxide produced by industry and climate change," he said.

Professor Plimer said the scientific community had not reached any kind of consensus that carbon dioxide causes global warming.