More skepticism Down Under

Liberals take battle to PM Kevin Rudd's turf | The Australian

But as Mr Turnbull trumpeted his forward-looking approach, Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard said his team was stacked with climate-change sceptics and cheerleaders for the previous government's Work Choices industrial relations laws.
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Lbor moved quickly to respond to the new team, with Agriculture Minister Tony Burke ridiculing the Opposition's claimed interest in climate change. Mr Burke produced a copy of the Canowindra News, in which new Coalition agriculture spokesman John Cobb declared he was a climate-change sceptic and was quoted last month as saying he was tired of the "staggering over-response" to the "populist issue" and that he wanted to bring a voice of reason to the debate about Australia's response to global warming.

Labor sources also produced transcripts showing Ian Macfarlane, the Opposition's resources spokesman, saying in August last year: "I am a sceptic of the connection between emissions and climate change."

Horticulture New Zealand chief executive Peter Silcock sounds like an unbeliever

[Silcock: ...] There are still climate change sceptics out there, but our customers believe it is happening, so we have to do something about it.”

However, Silcock believes the biggest impact of climate change on New Zealand’s industry may not be the phenomenon itself, but rather the response of the authorities. As FPJ went to press, the government was due to pass a new law on emissions trading that could well affect on-farm energy usage.