Senator hears a science lesson on climate

"Eighteen months ago Australians sent politicians a clear message that they wanted action on climate change," Senator Wong said.

"They made it clear they wanted to leave a decent legacy for their children."
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Four scientists accompanied Senator Fielding to his meeting with Senator Wong and the Chief Scientist, Penny Sackett.

The Government also asked the director of the Australian National University's Climate Change Institute, Will Steffen, to attend the meeting.

With Senator Fielding were David Evans, a former carbon modeller for the former Australian Greenhouse Office; Stewart Franks, an associate professor of environmental engineering at the University of Newcastle; Robert Carter, an adjunct research fellow at James Cook University; and William Kininmonth, a long-serving member of the Bureau of Meteorology.

Liberals now have confident leader | The Australian

Emissions trading is not Turnbull's chosen battleground. He wants to find a way to let a version of the scheme through. Costello had publicly stated that during the global crisis the scheme should be blocked. Given the deep divisions over climate change within the Liberal Party, let alone the Coalition, Turnbull's room to manoeuvre remained extremely limited while Costello's leadership intentions remained unclear.

If we go out of our way to make lunch less convenient, will the world's weather really improve?

Prohibiting new drive-thru windows (existing ones are grandfathered in and will not be closed down) would be one small but important step toward reducing our contribution to global warming.