Dennis Geoffrey Jensen was born on 28 February 1962 and is an Australian former politician.
15 Facts About Dennis Jensen
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Dennis Jensen was elected to the House of Representatives at the 2004 federal election, winning the Division of Tangney for the Liberal Party.
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Dennis Jensen has a PhD in materials science from Monash University, and before entering politics worked as a CSIRO researcher.
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Dennis Jensen is known for questioning the anthropogenic causation of climate change.
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Dennis Jensen was educated at RMIT University, the University of Melbourne and Monash University, from where he has a PhD in materials science.
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Dennis Jensen worked at the CSIRO as a research scientist and for the Department of Defence as a defence analyst before entering politics.
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Dennis Jensen was the Liberal candidate for the Division of Corio, Victoria at the 1998 election.
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In 2006, Dennis Jensen lost his preselection for Tangney for the 2007 federal election, but won it back with the support of the state executive and prime minister John Howard.
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Dennis Jensen lost preselection again for the 2010 election, but the state executive intervened and restored him as Liberal candidate.
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Dennis Jensen rejects the scientific consensus on human-induced global warming and, on behalf of the Lavoisier Group, organised the release of a book entitled Nine Facts About Climate Change by former mining CEO Ray Evans.
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In February 2007 during a Parliamentary sitting, Dennis Jensen quoted the then IPCC vice chairman Yuri Izrael, who had stated that "there is no proven link between human activity and global warming".
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Dennis Jensen boycotted Parliament on the day that the formal apology to the Stolen Generations was made by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
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Dennis Jensen lost Liberal preselection in Tangney for the 2016 federal election.
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Dennis Jensen sued the Australian newspaper and Andrew Burrell, the journalist, for defamation.
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Dennis Jensen won the case, and was paid a total of $1.1 million, including costs.