Yes Really, The Senate Set Aside An Hour To Debate “The Disputed Theory Of Global Warming"
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Senator Roberts started with ten minutes of his best material, including claims there is no ~empirical evidence~ of global warming and his belief that a group of elites (which includes bankers, US billionaire George Soros and Australian lobby group GetUp) have been getting rich off it.
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Nationals senator John Williams followed, focusing on how Labor's carbon tax had seen concrete producers go out of business and questioned why scientists focus on carbon dioxide which is "actually odourless, colorless".
He also said emissions trading schemes, which are the preferred method for industrialised countries to cut back on carbon emissions, were about "wealthy people selling clean air to wealthy people and poor people paying for it".
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Fellow Nationals senator Ian Macdonald delighted in the discussion and said, "we were once covered in ice, so of course the climate changes!"
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