Senator ROBERTS (Queensland) (18:25): I move: The Senate notes that: (a) valid scientific data proving cause-and-effect is vital as the only credible justification for policies claimed to be based on science; (b) the following are often used today in our communities as substitutes for science, yet are not science: (i) populist views and anecdotes about weather events, (ii) short-term perspectives of cycles out of context, (iii) unsubstantiated claims of 'having the science', (iv) name calling, (v) claims of consensus, (vi) so-called peer-reviewed literature, (vii) appeals to authority, (viii) academic fallacies, and (ix) emotional claims or statements; and (c) the ultimate arbiter of science is empirical scientific evidence, being: (i) objectively verified hard data as physical measurements and/or physical observations, and (ii) presented in a logical framework proving cause and effect.