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MPs in attack of nerves over climate change | The Australian

DEMANDS from Opposition MPs that Australia's proposed emissions trading scheme be shelved because of the global financial crisis have overshadowed growing unrest in government ranks about climate change policy.

As pressure on Malcolm Turnbull over the issue escalated yesterday, Kevin Rudd renewed his pledge to introduce an ETS amid tension among some of his key political allies in the Labor Party's NSW Right faction who fear the scheme will be political poison and cost jobs.
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Former Opposition leader Brendan Nelson said putting a price on carbon was the equivalent of creating a new tax -- an action that would be madness at a time of global economic recession.
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[Brendan Nelson] said it was now obvious that global negotiations on new targets for emission cuts to end in Copenhagen later this year would not make genuine progress.

"It would be economic suicide for Australia to act unilaterally," he said.

West Australian MP Dennis Jensen said he remained sceptical about whether climate change was caused by the activities of man. He called for a parliamentary inquiry into the science of climate change, arguing that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which had concluded that action was needed, was "politicised".
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Nationals Senate leader Barnaby Joyce said he was not convinced climate change was caused by human activity but was in any case unwilling to vote for emissions trading.