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MPs make heavy weather of imperfect predictions

        On Sky News yesterday, Labor's Craig Emerson breaks ranks by admitting the science is out on climate change
  DAVID Speers: Well, the reports that there are concerns in Labor ranks about Peter Garrett's warning of sea levels rising by as much as 6m this century; Craig Emerson, is that the sort of warning that you would endorse?
  Emerson: I saw the question and the answer. The question was put that there's suggestions that sea level rises could be around 6m and Peter said words to the effect of: well, this is why we're so concerned about climate change. Now what I'd like to see is the scientists themselves settle on some of these issues. We need always, and we have been basing our responses to this issue on the basis of scientific evidence, and I suppose what's disappointing around the world is that there is so much disagreement around the edges or even in key issues such as what's happening to Antarctica.
  Press release, British Antarctic Survey, April 21:
  SATELLITE images show that since the 1970s the extent of Antarctic sea ice has increased at a rate of 100,000sqkm a decade.
  Kevin Rudd in a doorstep interview on February 2, 2007:
  WELL, can I just say, the science is in. The icecaps are melting, the oceans are rising, temperatures are rising, we have the corals of the Great Barrier Reef beginning to be bleached. These are real environmental consequences now. The environmental case for action now on climate change is real. The economic case for action on climate change isreal.
  Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett at the Queensland state ALP conference on June21, 2008:
  WE know that climate change poses very real risks to Australia's economy, to our future prosperity and to our very way of life. We know this because the science is in.
  Federal Climate Change Minister Penny Wong on Tuesday:
  CLIMATE change is a clear and present danger to our world that demands immediateattention.
  Emerson's comments will be music to the ears of Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce, who told ABC1's Lateline on February 25 :
  THERE should always be the expression of an ability to debate. It is not something that should be in the same vestige as a religious debate. It's a debate about science, it's a debate about effect, it's a debate about government policy. And let's make sure that it stays at that level, and not put some sort of laurel on it that doesn't belong there.
  Italy's La Stampa on similarities between the spread of swine flu and the global economic crisis:
  THE first thing the two have in common is there is no vaccination against the disease and no effective formula for curtailing the damages caused by the failure of sub-prime loans. The second feature they share is the quick mutation of the catalyst; we've already been told that the real danger is not the virus in its current form but the high probability of more severe and more aggressive forms.
  Switzerland's Corriere del Ticino on how the suggestion that Muslim countries, where people don't eat pork, will escape swine flu could be turned into a conspiracy theory:
  GOD, or nature, is punishing mankind for eating impure animals. A food apocalypse will triumph where international terrorism failed. A slice of salami will be the death of the West. Then there will be those ... who interpret the swine epidemic as an anti-Western plot ... This ideological explanation for swine flu, albeit utterly preposterous, could prove tenable at a symbolic level ... It could indeed be a just punishment for the rich countries to fall victim to ... their own greed. For those who believe in the clash of the cultures, a conspiracy in which a foodstuff that is symbolic of our society is poisoned by the "enemies" would be absolutely plausible.
  PC World magazine writer Brennon Slattery on how Twitter is contributing to the rumour mill on swine flu:
  THIS is a good example of why (Twitter is) headed in that wrong direction because it's just propagating fear among people as opposed to seeking actual solutions or key information. The swine flu thing came really at the crux of a media revolution.