Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Climate Commission's first report says warming is beyond denial and planting trees won't cut it | News.com.au


JULIA Gillard has responded to Barnaby Joyce's claim that Australia cannot effect climate change saying the country does not have time for false claims.

The Prime Minister told reporters that she accepts the government's peer-reviewed report on Climate Change which warns that people are to blame for rising temperatures, with the last decade the hottest on record.

"We don't have time ... for false claims in this debate," said Julia Gillard.

"The science is in, climate change is real. The science is clear - man-made carbon pollution is making a difference to our planet and our climate.

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