Former Australian PM Tony Abbott has joined the board of trustees of the leading climate sceptic think tank, the Global Warming Policy Foundation, vowing to inject more “genuine science” and less “groupthink” into the debate.
Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has joined the board of trustees of the leading climate sceptic think tank, the Global Warming Policy Foundation, vowing to inject more “genuine science” and less “groupthink” into the debate.
Former prime minister Tony Abbott has joined the board of Britain’s leading climate-sceptic think tank.The foundation recently started Net Zero Watch, a campaigning platform highlighting what it calls the “costs of net zero”. Its charitable status has come under increased scrutiny in Britain over several questions about its funding and claims it is, in fact, a lobbying organisation.
He said the ostracisation of those who did not accept climate science was “the spirit of the Inquisition, the thought-police down the ages”. He also reprised his 2009 assertion that the “so-called settled science of climate change” was “absolute crap”.
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