Climate change report a 'wake-up call' for Howard.


The federal Opposition says new research on climate change commissioned by the world's governments should be a massive wake-up call for Prime Minister John Howard.
A Sydney newspaper has published the report, which is to be presented to an inter-governmental panel in Paris next week.
The report was commissioned by 180 countries and suggests that the greenhouse gases emitted in the 21st century will continue to warm the world for the next 1,000 years.
The research also suggests that there is a 90 per cent chance that human activity is to blame for global warming.
Opposition climate change spokesman Peter Garrett says the report paints a grim picture and should be a wake-up call for the Howard Government.
"I think this report is the most serious warning we've had yet on climate change," he said.
"It means that the bell is tolling on our way of life, on our economy, on the health of the planet, and it means that the bell is tolling on the Prime Minister to stand up and actually show that he's got a policy that will address climate change."
Mr Garrett says Labor would immediately establish a national carbon trading emissions scheme as a first step in demonstrating its serious commitment on climate change.
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