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Australia: Al Gore attacks Tony Abbott's refusal to link bushfires with climate change

2013-10-24 01:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

AAP: Tony Abbott's insistence that bushfires aren't linked to climate change is like the tobacco industry claiming smoking doesn't cause lung cancer, Nobel laureate Al Gore says. In light of the New South Wales bushfire disaster, the former US vice-president says the prime minister's comment that bushfires are a function of life in Australia and nothing to do with climate change reminds him of politicians in the US who received support from tobacco companies, and who then publicly argued the companies'...

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