MPs make heavy weather of imperfect predictions
On Sky News yesterday, Labor's Craig Emerson breaks ranks by admitting the science is out on climate change
DAVID Speers: Well, the reports that there are concerns in Labor ranks about Peter Garrett's warning of sea levels rising by as much as 6m this century; Craig Emerson, is that the sort of warning that you would endorse?
Emerson: I saw the question and the answer. The question was put that there's suggestions that sea level rises could be around 6m and Peter said words to the effect of: well, this is why we're so concerned about climate change. Now what I'd like to see isEve ISK the scientists themselves settle on some of these issues. We need always, and we have been basing our responses to this issue on the basis of scientific evidence, and I suppose what's disappointing around the world is that there is so much disagreement around the edges or even in key issues such as what's happening to Antarctica.