One Nation Senator PaulineHansonOz says she is 'not convinced' by 'fanatics' who are linking the bushfire crisis to man-made climate change.
One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson says she is "not convinced" by "fanatics" who are linking the bushfire crisis to man-made climate change. “Our climate is changing, I don’t deny that, but is it man-made is another question that we need to ask,” she said. “They’re telling us that the earth’s temperature is going to increase by two or three per cent in the next 100 years, but where’s your proof? They can’t even get it right when they tell me it’s going to rain on my property.
“If they can’t even get it right day to day, how are they going to predict it 50 or 100 years down the track, sorry but it doesn’t wash with me or a lot of Australians. “So let’s stop destroying businesses and people’s way of living across Australia [in the name of climate change].” Senator Hanson also criticised the government’s response to the bushfire crisis, saying its initial $2 billion pledge was not enough.
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