Australian Coalition MP Craig Kelly is challenging the scientific consensus on climate change, telling the thousands of students taking part in protests today that “everything you are told is a lie.”
Mr Kelly says that young people are being “manipulated” and are facing peer pressure to conform to popular ideas of climate change.
Mr Kelly has told parliament during question time that there is no link between climate change and drought, and that today’s generation is safer from extreme weather than any other.
Material from US space agency NASA opposes this, and suggests there is a wide scientific consensus on climate change, with 97 per cent of actively publishing climate scientists agreeing that climate warming trends are extremely likely due to human activity.