'Almost a religious aspect': Tony Abbott downplays link between bushfires and climate change

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'Almost a religious aspect': Tony Abbott downplays link between bushfires and climate change
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'Almost a religious aspect': Tony Abbott downplays link between bushfires and climate change | KnottMatthew

Former prime minister Tony Abbott has downplayed the contribution of climate change to the Australian bushfire crisis, telling a US audience he believes the link between extreme weather events and carbon emissions has become akin to a religious dogma for many people.

"I'm not one of those people who sees the current bushfires as confirmation of all we've ever feared about the changing climate," he told"I see the current bushfires as the sort of thing that we are always going to be prone to in a country such as ours - a land of droughts and flooding rains as the poet [Dorothea Mackellar] said all those years back.

"If you think climate change is the most important thing, everything can be turned to proof. I think that to many it has almost a religious aspect to it."Abbott said the duration of the current bushfire season may be the longest in Australian history, but past seasons had claimed more lives and burnt out bigger areas of bushland.

"In terms of money, time, and commitment of the armed forces it has been unprecedented so all credit to Scott Morrison for what he has done there."Abbott said that Australia should be praised by other countries for meeting its carbon reduction targets under the Paris climate accord.

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