Submission + - Top Advisor To Australian Govt Says Climate Change a UN conspiracy (smh.com.au)
An anonymous reader writes: Maurice Newman, the top business advisor to conservative Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, today published an opinion article (paywall) in which he claims "It's a well-kept secret, but 95 per cent of the climate models ... have been found ... to be in error." He goes on to write "This is not about facts or logic. It's about a new world order under the control of the UN." While Newman's 'sceptical' views have long been on record, it's unclear when he came to believe in this vast global conspiracy. Last year, the Abbott government removed Australia's Emissions Trading Scheme, and recently gave $4 million in funding to contrarion Bjorn Lomberg, while cutting hundreds of millions of dollars from science across the country.
