Tony Abbott, former Australian PM, tells Israeli radio the world is 'in the grip of a climate cult'

[dalton99a]

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/03/tony-abbott-former-australian-pm-tells-israeli-radio-the-world-is-in-the-grip-of-a-climate-cult

Tony Abbott, former Australian PM, tells Israeli radio the world is 'in the grip of a climate cult'
Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation foreign editor says listeners were angry at the airing of ‘extremist views’
Graham Readfearn
Thu 2 Jan 2020 21.56 EST

The Israeli public broadcaster has come under fire from angry listeners after broadcasting an interview with Tony Abbott in which he said the world was “in the grip of a climate cult”.

During the interview, recorded on 15 December while his home state of New South Wales was fighting terrifying bushfires, Abbott denied that carbon dioxide was driving global warming. The interview was broadcast on New Year’s Eve in a special show reviewing key international issues of the decade.

Abbott said: “While we still seem to be in the grip of a climate cult, the climate cult is going to produce policy outcomes that will cause people to wake up to themselves.”

After claiming, incorrectly, that a focus on emissions reduction in Australia had caused blackouts and rising power prices, Abbott said: “Sooner or later, in the end, people get hit over the head by reality.”

The host of the show, Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation foreign editor Eran Mor-Cicurel, interjected part-way through the interview, pointing out Australia had been hit by fires and disasters “happening again and again”.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Abbott

In October 2017, Abbott spoke in London at the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a climate-skeptic lobby group, where he described climate change as "probably doing good; or at least, more good than harm."[223][224][225] He argued that higher concentrations of carbon dioxide act as "plant food" and "are actually greening the planet and helping to lift agricultural yields."[223][224]

[appalachiablue]

1. Wild, crazy stuff,

>" higher concentrations of carbon dioxide act as "plant food" and "are actually greening the planet and helping to lift agricultural yields."

[Cicada]

2. The Australian economy relies on selling pollution

They export massive amounts of coal and iron ore.turning iron ore into steel consumes massive energy. So it’s easy to understand why Australian leaders deny reality.

We need to reduce the profit by imposing carbon taxes. Australia exports costs on us. They should pay for the damage.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Big Oil science?

That’s a great publicist’s cough propagandist’s way of looking at it.

[gab13by13]

3. Now people are projecting to mother nature.

[BlueMTexpat]

4. How do so many a**holes

still get fora to spew their idiocies?

[tman]

6. He's right and wrong.

Real action is needed, but the focus is mostly on the wrong policy solutions, targeting the average person and not the multi-national corporations and billionaire class. It will turn off voters and not fix the actual problem.