Heat on Australia PM over climate skeptic MPs - Reuters

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Heat on Australia PM over climate skeptic MPs
Mon Aug 13, 2007 2:54AM EDT

By Rob Taylor

CANBERRA (Reuters) - A report questioning climate change
and calling global warming a "natural phenomenon" on Monday
led to accusations Australia's Prime Minister John Howard was
a climate skeptic, possibly denting his re-election hopes.

A group of four government lawmakers -- two of them former
ministers -- said climate change had been observed on other
planets and moons including "Mars, Jupiter, Triton, Pluto,
Neptune and others".

But this statement triggered a scornful response from the
opposition.

"Prime Minister, what planet are these government MPs on?"
Labor Party environment spokesman and former rock star
Peter Garrett asked Howard in Parliament.

The four released a report debating the science of carbon
capture and underground storage, or geosequestration,
opening a climate rift in the government.

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