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Friday 28/3/2008 Page: 4
A MOTION to ban the term "climate change" when referring to man-made environmental impacts will be debated at next month's state Liberal council as the party wrestles over its position on global warming. The agenda for the Liberal state-council includes the proposition "that the party avoids using the term `climate change' when referring to man-made environmental impacts." The agenda says the term is favoured by green activists "as this implies man's responsibility for all change in the environment."
"Their aim is to dismantle the industrial economy," notes to the motion warn. "We can still have a debate on how we can reduce our impact on the global environment - but the Party needs to be wary of accepting the (green activists') premise in our policy." A separate motion calls for the Federal Government to instruct its climate change investigator Ross Garnaut to "provide evidence as to the extent of the contribution of human activity to global warming." State policy debates will include a motion for "land-based treatment and disposal" of toxic silt dredged from the Yarra river as part of the channel deepening project, and a motion to abolish stamp duty.
Denialists and dinosaurs still roam freely in the once proud and liberal Liberal party.
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