IPA director of policy GideonCRozner says Malcolm Turnbull expressed the 'same kind of denialism' he derides today when he claimed in 2018 that individual bushfires could not be attributed climate change.
Sky News Digital Editor Jack Houghton The miserable ghost of Malcolm Turnbull has been caught out trying to re-write history by penning an article in US media claiming he was the Prime Minister who held back the “climate-denying political right in Australia”. Mr Turnbull wrote that the deadly bushfires were proof the “wicked, self-destructive idiocy of climate denialism must stop”.
“As Prime Minister, I tried to ensure that our climate and energy policies were governed by engineering and economics, not ideology and idiocy,” he said. “Tragically, the climate-denying political right in Australia has turned what should be a practical question of how to respond to a real physical threat into a matter of values or belief.
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