Yes, Senator, climate change is real: A Liberal MP's open letter to One Nation's Malcolm Roberts

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Perspective | Yes, Senator, climate change is real: Liberal MP Trent Zimmerman's open letter to One Nation's Malcolm Roberts

You recently wrote to me to demand that I provide reasons as to why I have been a voice for action on climate change within the government and the basis for my view that climate change as a result of human activity was even occurring.

Human-induced climate change poses risks to health, livelihoods, food security, water supply, human security, and economic growth, particularly if temperatures rise beyond 2 degrees. These risks were examined empirically by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and included the potential for increases of drought, negative impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems and increases in ocean acidity.

Solar and wind account for nearly two-thirds of global net new generation capacity additions. In Australia, the figure is 99 per cent because solar and wind are cheaper than new coal or gas. Australia is the global renewable energy pathfinder and is deploying new renewable energy four times faster per capita than in Europe, the USA, Japan or China. The combined value of Australia’s solar and wind industries is about $8 billion per year – this is big business.

 

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Great to see that there are those in the Liberal party that that are not rusted onto coal and see a bright future for our transition, jobs and environment!!👏🏼

Liberal Party Senator has a single sane idea and hes hailed as a good guy. What a low bar. (Hes still a Liberal Party senator)

Zimmerman blocked my comments on his FB page, as I detailed his voting record absolutely BS

The pressure from friendly jordies has gotten to the LNP and they keep trying to reinvent themselves

TrentZimmerman would be better advised to write to many in his own LiberalParty who still deny ClimateChange.

Thatcher for climate change, Tony Abbott for destroying wind farms and a NEG that never was, I need another drink.

Oh the irony

But Zimmerman doesn't vote this way, and is hiding comments on his FB page about it.

How come FakeNewsMedia continues to ignore geo-engineering All the registered patents, laws for non use in warfare, daily reminders of increasing use in the skies, don't seems to interest you losers... Any reason why

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