Abbott Business Advisor: Climate Measures Like Cult Sacrifices; Warns Of Global Cooling Threat
The Abbott government's chief business adviser says too much time has been spent focusing on global warming and as a result Australians are "ill prepared" to deal with the prospect of global cooling.
Maurice Newman, who has been vocal in his climate change scepticism, has attacked governments, including the former Labor government, for pursuing "green gesture politics" by introducing carbon price signals in an opinion piece for the Murdoch-owned News Corp publication The Australian. He likened the measures to "primitive civilisations offering up sacrifices to appease the gods".
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While he says "only time will tell" if the planet cools instead of warms, he believes "it is fanciful to believe that it will be business as usual in a colder global climate". He says "a scenario where nations are desperately competing for available energy and food will bring unpredictable threats, far more testing than anything we have seen in recent history". But he fears the "political establishment" is deaf to risks of global cooling because "having made science a religion, it bravely persists with its global warming narrative, ignoring at its peril and ours, the clear warnings being given by Mother Nature".
Greens MP Adam Bandt says Maurice Newman's comments border on "deranged" and has called on Mr Abbott to dump his top business advisor. “Maurice Newman's latest statements are channelling the flat earth commentary of a lunatic fringe,” Mr Bandt said.
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