Believe It Or Not, Climate Debate Heats Up

''My initial thought was 'Is this my fault? Has this happened because I haven't been out there saying that this stuff is going to have catastrophic consequences for us?'''

''It is the first time I have ever been shaken from my belief that I shouldn't be an advocate on climate change.''

Nicholls - an Australian Research Council professorial fellow at Monash University and an author and reviewer with the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - resolved to take more responsibility to be a public voice; not to lobby for a particular political response, but to explain and defend the science that is his life's work. Read the full report here.

Source: by Adam Morton, The Sydney Morning Herald.