Emission reduction scheme should be seen as 'insurance' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The federal bureaucrat who will implement Australia's carbon trading scheme has attacked climate change sceptics.

The secretary of the Department of Climate Change, Doctor Martin Parkinson, says climate change deniers have misappropriated the term "sceptic".

He has told a forum that the weight of scientific evidence is real and Australia is likely to be hardest hit.

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“Does the climate change problem exist? Yes,” Professor Likens said.

“The scientific consensus is so strong and so universal - there are just a handful of doubters on this.

“Yet (those doubters) get such high media attention and a lot of support.”(Via Greenie Watch)