Fielding's climate change views 'of concern' - National News - National - General - The Canberra Times

Not even the findings of a scientific United Nations body on the causes of climate change are good enough for Family First's Steve Fielding.
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Senator Fielding will meet with Climate Change Minister Penny Wong on Monday to discuss his theory.

He said he would also seek out Australia's chief scientist Professor Penny Sackett, who has offered to explain the human causes of climate change to him.

Opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt disagrees with Senator Fielding's views, saying climate change was "a real phenomenon".

"It is significant, and it is of concern," he told ABC Radio.

However, everybody had the right, duty and obligation to examine the issue and make up their own mind, he said.

"There is a danger ... that anybody who does what Steve Fielding does and considers their position, is attacked as some sort of heretic and that's not a good thing in a democracy."

Wong warns against voting no for ETS

"Every senator is going to have to front up to their electorate and tell people if they vote no, why they voted to ensure Australia's emissions keep rising, voted to ensure our carbon pollution keeps increasing, voted to ensure we continue to contribute to climate change," she told ABC TV on Wednesday.

Senator Wong described as "erroneous" Senator Fielding's belief that solar flares may be responsible for global warming - not human activity or carbon emissions.

"Solar flares does not explain the phenomenon that we are seeing."

Capital happy to buck green trends - Monkey Wrench - The Canberra Times

Last Friday was World Environment Day, but you wouldn’t have known that in Canberra. There was diddly happening in the way of public events and big environmental clean-up campaigns. It was a day to buy firecrackers for the long weekend, and bugger the air pollution, carbon emissions, and torment inflicted on wildlife and domestic pets by setting off things that go ba-boom in the night.