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Australia: Tony Abbotts scientific and business advisers at odds over climate change
2014-02-27 07:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Tony Abbotts top scientific and business advisers are at odds over the science of climate change with the chief scientist, Ian Chubb, strongly rejecting assertions that climate science is a delusion or a result of groupthink. Chubb said the scientific evidence for human-induced global warming was so overwhelming that those who reject it are usually forced to impugn the messenger with stupid expressions like groupthink or silly arguments that global warming is a delusion. Among...
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Tony Abbott's business adviser says Australia taken 'hostage' by 'climate change madness'
2013-12-31 04:36:45| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Tony Abbott should order his top business adviser to withdraw ''ignorant comments'' about climate change policy destroying Australia's manufacturing sector and competitiveness, says Labor. The scientific delusion, the religion behind the climate crusade, is crumbling The opposition's acting environment spokesman Shayne Neumann said Maurice Newman's comments ''damage Australia's relationships with its trading partners". In an opinion piece in The Australian newspaper, the Prime Minister's...
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change
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Tony Abbotts top business adviser accuses IPCC of 'dishonesty and deceit'
2013-12-31 03:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Tony Abbott's top business adviser has accused the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of "dishonesty and deceit' as it focuses on "exploiting the masses and extracting more money' in a climate crusade. Maurice Newman, chairman of the prime minister's new Business Advisory Council, used an interview with the Australian newspaper to launch a strongly worded attack on the global body that provides advice to governments on the body of scientific findings about climate change. Newman also...
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Have Australia's wildfires sent Tony Abbott's climate policies up in smoke?
2013-10-31 12:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Is nature trying to tell Tony Abbott something? No sooner had the new Australian Prime Minister started to dismantle the last government's policies for reducing carbon emissions, than wildfires swept across New South Wales, reigniting as it were the debate over climate change. The fires the worst in the state for two decades followed unprecedentedly high temperatures. Both July and September were the hottest ever recorded in the state, with August only just falling short. And October is...
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Australia: Abbott's new climate policy rejected by economists
2013-10-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canberra Times: Leading economists have overwhelmingly rejected Tony Abbott's direct action climate change policy and backed carbon pricing. A Fairfax Media survey of 35 prominent university and business economists found only two believed direct action was the better way to limit Australia's greenhouse gas emissions. Thirty - or 86 per cent - favoured the existing carbon price scheme. Three rejected both schemes. Internationally renowned Australian economist Justin Wolfers, of the Washingtonbased Brookings...
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