No need for emissions reduction: Liberal MP …..

A federal Liberal MP says he is not convinced there is a need for government schemes to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

A report is due to be released this morning as part of a parliamentary inquiry into carbon capture and storage.

It is believed to contain dissenting views from Coalition MPs about global warming.

Liberal MP and former CSIRO scientist Dennis Jensen says he is a climate change sceptic.

"It's an issue of my analysis of the scientific literature and in my view, there is a great amount of uncertainty on it," he said.

"To be making very damaging policy to try to mitigate something where there's a great deal of uncertainty, is a foolish way to go."

No Need For Emissions Reduction: Liberal MP

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Gus: I could go on and on with diagrams of doldrums and trade winds, with jet streams to boot, I could show Mr Jensen interpretations of climatic moirés on the Earth, explaining how the exchanges of heat and cold work in a saucepan, I could teach him how the position of oceans influence the rate and positioning of climate interchange, I could scientifically compute that if average temperatures in Antarctica rise by 2 degrees and average temperature in July in Sydney are one degree below average it's still a gain of about one degree on climate warming... but I cannot scrape the cobwebs out of a scientist-turned-Liberal's brain - as in my book, the words scientist and Liberal cannot go together...

But that's my opinion. There is a lot of more uncertainty in going to war than in climate change, Mr Jensen and to quote you: "To be making very damaging policy to try to mitigate something where there's a great deal of uncertainty, is a foolish way to go."

Boot Johnnee out.