Emission reduction scheme should be seen as 'insurance'
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The federal bureaucrat who will implement Australia's carbon trading scheme has attacked climate change sceptics.
The secretary of the Department of Climate Change, Doctor Martin Parkinson, says climate change deniers have misappropriated the term "sceptic".
He has told a forum that the weight of scientific evidence is real and Australia is likely to be hardest hit.
Dr Parkinson says even an agnostic should accept the precautionary principle and see emission reduction schemes as taking out insurance.
He says it makes sense for Australia to demonstrate an emissions reduction scheme which enhances Australia's economic welfare if adopted in other countries.
