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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.

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  1. Re: Deniers by cbeaudry · · Score: -1, Troll

    And climate change catastrophist will torture and manipulate data until it shows a 97% consensus on silly questions that mean nothing at all.

    Your point is what?

  2. Re:Passive voice alert! by BradMajors · · Score: 1, Troll
  3. troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Stop.trolling you pathetic troll. While you may get a couple.of your atheist brethren slapping you on the back for your troll, show me proof that any specific religion hold a specific stance on climate change. Oh, you can not because there is none except in you own delusion. You know... the same distorted reality you accuse others of having.

    1. Re:troll by msobkow · · Score: -1, Troll

      No, I'm saying that someone delusional about one thing is likely to be delusional about another. And ALL religion is self-delusion that moldy old texts have ANY relevance to modern life.

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      I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
    2. Re:troll by j35ter · · Score: -1, Troll

      Maybe you shoud

      Keep Calm
      and
      Pray to your invisible man in the sky,

      or

      Keep Calm
      and
      Have a Mushroom Tea(Party)

      --
      Delta-Mike November Bravo Tango
  4. Re:Deniers by phantomfive · · Score: 0, Troll

    Multiple studies have shown that the climate models are wrong.

    So will you accept science, or is the cognitive dissonance giving you problems if it disagrees with your pre-determined world view?

    --
    "First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
  5. Re:A conspiracy of academics? by argStyopa · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh, there are some things you can immediately get most academics to agree on:
    - Republicans are evil; Dick Cheney is the embodiment of Satan*
    - white people are to blame for most of the bad things, ever
    - more government is good
    - everyone needs more education

    *that would be a secular Satan, of course, since they also agree that religion is something mainly for stupid people.

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    -Styopa