Australian PM sceptical of climate guru's warnings - AFP

Source: Agence France-Presse

Australian PM sceptical of climate guru's warnings

Wed Mar 28, 3:55 AM ET

SYDNEY (AFP) - Prime Minister John Howard warned Wednesday that British
climate change guru Nicolas Stern's environmental solutions would damage
Australia's economy.

Howard said ahead of a meeting with Stern scheduled for late Wednesday
that he respected the British economist's contribution to the climate
change debate but regarded him as just another expert in the debate on
global warming.

"I'm interested in his views, they make a valuable contribution to the
debate but they are the views of another expert, they should be treated
with respect but they shouldn't be treated as holy writ," Howard told
parliament.

Stern warned last year in a landmark report commissioned by the British
government that climate change could bring economic disaster on the scale
of the world wars and the 1930s Great Depression unless urgent action was
taken.

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Dubya has done in that sand -- he thought it was Dubya litter! ;-)