- The climate has changed in the past, as can be seen from both the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age in recent climate history.
- It is perfectly reasonable to believe there will be continuing fluctuations in the climate.
- The sensible approach in the face of a changing climate is to adapt our technologies and practices to suit rather than attempting to change the impossible.
- Human production of ‘greenhouse gases’ has a minimal effect on the world’s climate.
- The cost of an ETS is unsustainable in the long term.
- The introduction of an ETS in Australia may attempt to make us look good to our export markets but it will have no effect whatsoever on the climate.
- There is no scientific answer to this question of what Australia’s target should be.
- For relatively Australia is a small emitter by world standards – only emitting some 1% of global greenhouse gases.
- Anything we do as a nation will in itself have little impact on the climate – our impact will be symbolic, moral and political – but at what cost?
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