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Aussie senator unsure humans cause climate change
 
 
 
 
 
 
 By ROD McGUIRK,Associated Press Writer AP - 2 hours 49 minutes ago
CANBERRA, Australia - A senator who could be crucial to Australia's ambitious plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions said Tuesday that he remains unconvinced that humans are causing global warming.
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Sen. Steve Fielding is one of two independents in the Senate the government needs next week to pass its blueprint to curb Australia's carbon dioxide emissions, one of the greenhouse gasses blamed for dangerous climate change.
Fielding's doubt remains despite the findings of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an organization of more than 2,000 scientists, that climate change is "very likely" man-made.
He met with Climate Change Minister Penny Wong and two senior scientists on Monday and said Tuesday that he remained unconvinced.
"What is in disagreement is: Is it carbon emissions by man that are driving up global temperatures?" Fielding told reporters. "It certainly is something I want answered before I vote on any scheme."
Fielding believes that solar flares might be driving climate change instead.
The U.N. panel's report in 1997 said man-made emissions of greenhouse gases, mostly carbon dioxide, can already be blamed for fewer cold days, hotter nights, killer heat waves, floods and heavy rains, devastating droughts and an increase in hurricane and tropical storm strength.
The panel predicted temperature rises of 2-11.5 Fahrenheit (1.1 to 6.4 Celsius) by the year 2100.
The report said no matter how much civilization slows or reduces its greenhouse gas emissions, global warming will continue for centuries.
The Australian government wants the Senate to pass its carbon reduction laws next week, but it has yet to secure the support of any senator outside the ruling Labor Party. Labor holds only 32 of the 76 Senate seats.
The government hopes it can pass the legislation with the support of Fielding, fellow independent Nick Xenophon and the five Australian Greens party senators.
The government plans to tax polluting industries for the amount of carbon dioxide they produce from 2011 and to limit the pollution that Australia is allowed to emit.
The government plans to slash Australia's emissions by up to 25 percent below 2000 levels by 2020 if the United Nations can agree on tough global targets at a Copenhagen summit in December.
The opposition Liberal Party has ruled out supporting the package, arguing that Australia should wait to see what climate change laws emerge from the U.S. Congress before legislating.
 
 
 
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