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Top Advisor To Australian Gov't Says Climate Change is a UN Conspiracy
An anonymous reader writes: Maurice Newman, the top business advisor to conservative Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, today published an opinion piece (paywalled) in which he claims, "It's a well-kept secret, but 95 per cent of the climate models ... have been found ... to be in error." He goes on to write "This is not about facts or logic. It's about a new world order under the control of the UN." While Newman's 'skeptical' views have long been on record, it's unclear when he came to believe in this vast global conspiracy. Last year, the Abbott government removed Australia's Emissions Trading Scheme, and recently gave $4 million in funding to contrarian Bjorn Lomberg, while cutting hundreds of millions of dollars from science across the country.
The world really is in the hands of idiots, and people who have been bought off by industry.
The degree of willful ignorance about what's happening around us can only come from massive stupidity, flawed ideology, or corporate interests.
Fucking idiots.
Oh you naïve fool. Go ahead, publish something that's factual and threatens the consensus opinion. Oh what's that? Only one has been published? Yeah, there's a reason. In every field where science is making progress, there are contrarian papers all over the place, and science progresses. However, climate science got destroyed by the politicians and their dirty money.
Case in point; changing weather patterns have caused a small but noticeable cooling in the small ecosystem I study. That is deliberately omitted from what I've published because the censors balked at anything that suggested cooling, since it's contrary to the narrative EVEN THOUGH IT'S A MODELED CONSEQUENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE!
Yes, I'm frustrated, but it's better for me to continue to get funded than to publish something that contradicts the narrative.