"Emissions trading legislation, such as the “Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme” bills that are currently before Parliament, rest upon the assumption that human greenhouse emissions, especially carbon dioxide, (i) are pollutants, and (ii) are causing dangerous global warming. Neither of these assumptions are supported by empirical evidence, and both have been under scientific challenge for many years by a large body of qualified and independent scientists. Cognisant of these facts, Senator Steve Fielding has posed three direct questions to the Minister for Climate Change, Senator Penny Wong, in order to clarify whether or not evidence exists that human carbon dioxide emissions are causing dangerous global warming." Senator Fielding even has the gall to demand a meeting with Al Gore to convince him that he is wrong. Senator Fielding is an independent senator representing a party called Family First. He obtained most of his "facts" from the American Heartland Institute, a well known group of climate change deniers. http://www.stevefielding.com.au/images/uploads/Assessment_of_Wongs_Written_Reply_.pdf