Senator Nick Minchin

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Senator Nick Minchin

Nicholas Hugh Minchin (born 15 April 1953), Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 1993, representing South Australia. Minchin is the current Senate leader of the Liberal Party...

...In a March 2007 letter, Minchin expressed doubts that climate change is caused by human activity.[9]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Minchin

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Senator Nick Minchin has what most of his ilk lack, guts.

Defiant Minchin stands by his words


LIBERAL heavyweight Nick Minchin has brushed off attacks from Coalition colleagues after questioning the science behind climate change on prime-time television .

A defiant opposition Senate leader yesterday returned from a parliamentary delegation visit to Taiwan and declared he stood by his comments earlier this week on ABC's Four Corners program on climate change, despite criticism from his own side over his "bloody unhelpful" and "uninformed" views.
www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/defiant-minchin-stands-by-his-words/story-e6frg6nf-1225797562715

Row over sceptics hits climate ETS talks



AN escalating political row over the views of outspoken Coalition climate change sceptics is threatening ongoing negotiations between the government and opposition over Labor's emissions trading legislation.

Climate Change Minister Penny Wong yesterday accused Malcolm Turnbull of a failure of leadership after Coalition Senate leader Nick Minchin claimed a majority of opposition party members did not believe in man-made global warming, which he called the new "religion" of the Left after the demise of communism. Senator Wong said the Opposition Leader had to repudiate Senator Minchin if he were to live up to his declaration that he would not lead a party less committed to action on climate change than he was.
www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/row-over-sceptics-hits-climate-ets-talks/story-e6frgczf-1225796290183