Australia Comes Out Swinging Against IPCC and Climate Change Action

If there was any doubt about where Australian prime minister Tony Abbott stands on climate change, his mouthpiece top business advisor erased it.  Maurice Newman, chair of Abbott's Business Advisory Council, said the whole green business is a job-killing scam perpetrated by swindlers running the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC.

Newman ...argued Australia had fallen “hostage to climate change madness” but he believed the “scientific delusion” was crumbling amid suggestions the global temperature could drop to little ice age levels.

The opposition described Newman as an embarrassment to Australia, saying he was not a scientist and therefore not qualified “to make such outrageous claims”.

“The worst part about Mr Newman’s ignorant comments is that he’s only voicing what we know Tony Abbott thinks about climate change,” said Labor’s acting climate change spokesman, Shayne Neumann.

Abbott established the Business Advisory Council to meet three times a year with senior members of the government and “help guide programmes and policies that are sympathetic to the needs of both small and large businesses in Australia”.

"When necessarily, the IPCC resorts to dishonesty and deceit,” Newman said.  He said Australia had become “hostage to climate change madness”.

“And for all the propaganda about ‘green employment’, Australia seems to be living the European experience, where, for every ‘green’ job created, two to three jobs are lost in the real economy,” he said.

“The scientific delusion, the religion behind the climate crusade, is crumbling. Global temperatures have gone nowhere for 17 years. Now, credible German scientists claim that ‘the global temperature will drop until 2100 to a value corresponding to the little ice age of 1870’.”