The fallout from Craig Kelly's controversial Good Morning Britain interview continues
"And if you look at our science, if you look at the long-term record rainfalls in Australia there is simply no trend," he said.
"To try and make out - as some politicians have - to hijack this debate and exploit this tragedy, to push their ideological barrow that somehow or other the Australian government could have done something to reduce its climate emissions that would have reduced these bushfires is just complete nonsense."A former regular guest on Sky News Australia, Mr Kelly was in September last year denied permission by the Prime Minister's Office to appear on the ABC's Q&A program.
That followed his comments at an Australian Monarchists League function where he claimed the island nation of Tuvalu was"floating, not sinking [due to climate change]" because the island is a coral atoll and"a coral atoll actually floats on the ocean".Since the first fires began in Australia in August, more than five million hectares of land has been scorched.
Twenty-four people have been killed in the fires, an estimated 500 million animals are dead and more than 1,600 homes destroyed.
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