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| Subject: LOL: Climate change measures like 'primitive civilizations offering up sacrifices to appease the gods' Thu Aug 14, 2014 12:58 am | |
| 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".
Mr Newman warns in the article that global peace, energy and food supply are all at risk if the world does indeed cool. He says the views expressed are his own.
Both Labor and Coalition have publicly said they accept the science behind climate change and have agreed on a 5 per cent emissions target for 2020, despite Prime Minister Tony Abbott saying in 2009 that he thought the science was ''absolute crap''.
Labor says it will take a floating carbon price through an emissions trading scheme to the next election. The Abbott government achieved its long-held ambition last month to repeal the former Rudd/Gillard government's carbon tax, but it is struggling to gain support for the legislation it needs to be able to implement its Direct Action policy.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/climate-change-measures-like-primitive-civilisations-offering-up-sacrifices-to-appease-the-gods-says-maurice-newman-20140814-3do0v.html |
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