Australia’s chief scientist has suggested Tony Abbott’s top business adviser should stick to economics rather than “trawl the internet” for papers questioning the overwhelming scientific opinion on global warming. Maurice Newman, former chairman of the stock exchange and the ABC and now chairman of Abbott’s business advisory council, wrote an article in the Australian last week in which he warned that the world would be ill-prepared for global cooling, citing scientific papers predicting this would be the result of reduced solar activity. Asked about the article, chief scientist Ian Chubb told Guardian Australia: “If you trawl the internet on a regular enough basis you can come up with the sorts of things that article was saying, but you still need to explain why the huge, the overwhelming scientific evidence says the opposite. “If you want to put up alternative theories you have to find some kind of credible evidence to support them … if you can’t do that you tend to resort to name-calling, calling global warming things like a religion or a cult or some kind of conspiracy,” Chubb said. In the article, Newman said that “like primitive civilisations offering up sacrifices to appease the gods, many governments, including Australia’s former Labor government, used the biased research to pursue “green gesture politics” and accused the “political establishment of being deaf” to evidence that global warming had “paused” and cooling was possible. “Having put all our eggs in one basket and 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,” he wrote. Chubb suggested Newman stick to his areas of expertise. theguardian/science/2014/aug/17/australias-chief-scientist-tells-pms-business-adviser-to-stick-to-economics
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 00:53:09 +0000
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