1. Micronesia: A third kind of Nation, Written off?;Bill For;ABC News,2009
2. Scientific debate throughout the 1950s and 1960s identified that human induced climate change was a possibility but the consensus was not clear on whether it would cool or warm the Earth. During the 1970s the consensus shifted to warming with the work of John Sawyer in 1972 being fundamental to this development: "Man-made Carbon Dioxide and the "Greenhouse" Effect;Nature,1972
3. See the United Nations Climate Change Newsroom at www.unfccc.int (last visited;There were 196 signatories as at that date,2015
4. Climate change mitigation: carbon tax -is it the better answer for Australia?;Australian Tax Forum,2011