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Pacific nations 'very disappointed' by Tony Abbott's climate scepticism
2013-10-24 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Tony Abbott is risking the future of Australia's Pacific island neighbours by "burying his head in the sand" over climate change, according to Tony de Brum, the minister assisting the president of the Marshall Islands. De Brum told Guardian Australia that the Marshall Islands and other Pacific nations had been "very disappointed" with the new Coalition government's decision to scrap carbon pricing and abolish bodies such as the Climate Commission. On Wednesday, Abbott said that Christiana Figueres,...
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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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Australia: Tony Abbott's rising tide of inconvenient truths
2013-09-30 02:35:47| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: As Tony Abbott said ad nauseam during the campaign, the 2013 federal election was about three things: the onerous level of public debt, stopping the boats and abolition of the carbon tax. Ignored until after the election was the question of whether the moderate level of debt was a major factor in Australia avoiding the recessionary consequences of the global financial crisis. Then the new government (and its media apologists) segued effortlessly and without explanation into arguing that the deficit...
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Australia: Tony Abbott's warfare against action on climate change has started
2013-09-26 08:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Despite repeated promises to the contrary, it is now becoming clear that the Abbott government has no intention of taking meaningful action on climate change. The Coalition's so-called Direct Action policy has always been a farce and a policy fig leaf to cover Tony Abbott's belief that climate change science is, as he once described it, "crap' -- a view shared by the hand-picked chair of his new Business Advisory Council, Maurice Newman, who recently declared that "anthropological' (as he described...
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Australia: Tony Abbott's carbon price referendum was a flop
2013-09-11 00:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Just five days before polling day, then-opposition leader Tony Abbott declared at Australia's National Press Club that the 2013 election would be a referendum on the carbon price. "More than anything," Mr Abbott said, "this election is a referendum on the carbon tax." The Australian federal election was held on Saturday 7 September, an event notable for vast absenteeism at the polling booths in a nation with compulsory voting. Factoring in early voting and postal voting, there are likely...
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