The Wire

How will climate change skeptic Steve Fielding affect the passage of the emissions trading scheme in the senate? While other political parties have made specific demands to the government, Senator Fielding has gone back to the drawing board to ask the big question. Fielding, who returned from a self-funded trip to Washington attending a climate conference, is questioning the human impact on global warming. Critics say he is bringing back a debate about the very existence of climate change which has already been dealt with.