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09-06-2009, 11:32 AM
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FAMILY First Senator Steve Fielding says he wants the science "cleared up" before he decides how to cast his key vote on the proposed ETS. He supports a delay in the Senate vote until after the climate summit in Copenhagen in December.
His fact-finding mission to the US has culminated in Senator Fielding giving senior White House staff graphs provided by climate change sceptics and asking why he should not believe them.
Senator Fielding emailed graphs that claim the globe had not warmed for a decade, to Joseph Aldy, US President Barack Obama's special assistant on energy and the environment, after a meeting on Thursday.
Speaking from Washington, Senator Fielding said that asking the White House to explain why it is convinced global warming is linked to greenhouse emissions is part of "picking up the fight for the underdog".
He earlier attended a climate sceptics' conference run by free-market think tank the Heartland Institute — part of a trip to "hear both sides".
Senator Fielding said he found that Dr Aldy and other Obama Administration officials were not interested in discussing the legitimacy of climate science.
Full story: Climate change global warming (http://sj.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/agribusiness-and-general/general/climate-change-sceptics-impressive-fielding/1533668.aspx?src=enews)
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FAMILY First Senator Steve Fielding says he wants the science "cleared up" before he decides how to cast his key vote on the proposed ETS. He supports a delay in the Senate vote until after the climate summit in Copenhagen in December.
His fact-finding mission to the US has culminated in Senator Fielding giving senior White House staff graphs provided by climate change sceptics and asking why he should not believe them.
Senator Fielding emailed graphs that claim the globe had not warmed for a decade, to Joseph Aldy, US President Barack Obama's special assistant on energy and the environment, after a meeting on Thursday.
Speaking from Washington, Senator Fielding said that asking the White House to explain why it is convinced global warming is linked to greenhouse emissions is part of "picking up the fight for the underdog".
He earlier attended a climate sceptics' conference run by free-market think tank the Heartland Institute — part of a trip to "hear both sides".
Senator Fielding said he found that Dr Aldy and other Obama Administration officials were not interested in discussing the legitimacy of climate science.
Full story: Climate change global warming (http://sj.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/agribusiness-and-general/general/climate-change-sceptics-impressive-fielding/1533668.aspx?src=enews)
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