Australian Government To Axe $5 Billion Of Climate Funding – Lydia Bradbury, Liberty Voice
The funding for all government programs related to climate change is set to shrink at an alarming rate, going from $5.75 billion this year to a scant $500 million in the next four years.
The fallout from the new government’s budget is still being seen in Australia, but it is already obvious that climate change is a loser when it comes to funding. Prime Minister Tony Abbott has long been skeptical of global warming and the science behind it, but with his new-found legislative power it seems as though he is looking at making that viewpoint into law. According to critics, there is no longer even the pretense of working towards limiting the effects of climate change as the government works to protect the interests of fossil fuel producers and businesses. Whether or not there is a real connection between big business interest and the new budget, Abbott and his cabinet have taken the axe to climate change research and are poised to fundamentally damage all scientific research in Australia in the process.
The funding for all government programs related to climate change is set to shrink at an alarming rate, going from $5.75 billion this year to a scant $500 million in the next four years. Additionally, the Emissions Reduction Fund which is meant to help lower greenhouse gas emissions in Australia is going to be reduced to only $1.14 billion. This was devastating news after Environment Minister Greg Hunt had gone on record promising to provide $2.55 billion to fund the program. Nevertheless, it is not only climate change programs that are feeling the pinch of the Abbott budget.
The Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency, will have $111 million worth of funding slashed over the next four years, which will affect an uncertain number of programs and a loss of tenth of the CSIRO workforce.
The outlook is bleak from the standpoint of scientists and researchers in Australia, many of whom will probably leave the country in order to find work elsewhere.
Read the entire story here: http://guardianlv.com/2014/05/climate-change-research-axed-in-australia/
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Alarming they say! Nothings more alarming to some than cutting out the gravy train.
Hmmm, wonder if this has anything with various Australian universities’ sensitivity lately? May be another kind of feedback is getting their attention now….good on ya Mr. Abbott….now if only everyone else would join him in cutting of the alarmist funding!
Still $500m? Seems awfully generous for the results.
Not going far enough. I think the gov’t should get refunds from the climate frausters. Where is the accountability for promoting fraud.
Results.
Sweet, more often, many, push, push, expand, move others, do not back down.
Should any of the soon to be umemployed climate types from down under read [this], fair warning.
Mike Mann and his cult here do not share amy thing, not data and for sure not goverment grants.
I’m crying into my Shiraz! Still never mind, eh?
There’s some jobs for them here though.
http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/en/jobs/casting/disciplines/clowns/clowns.aspx
If the “science” is settled, there’s no need for funding …
Paul! My first taste of Shiraz was of Australian origin and I was ecstatic to the point of…well…er…let’s just say I liked it.
Coming soon to a university near you … Cook, Marcott, Turney
csanborn says:
May 18, 2014 at 11:10 am
Not going far enough. I think the gov’t should get refunds from the climate frausters. Where is the accountability for promoting fraud.
Frausters? A new word and it sounds pretty good to me- I’ll file it right next to Mark Steyn’s “Global Warm-mongers”.
Haha, right. I have some wood that needs split, & they can give a hand with rebuilding an old shed, & maybe taking down a dead birch. But to call what they do right now work is an insult to fat, lazy pigs.
I love how any article related to climate change alarmism is required to contain either “alarming rate” or “unprecedented”, though often both. Nothing is normal to these psudoscientists.
When they put together a grocery list at home, they must look through the fridge in a panic, horror painted across their goatee-adorned, bulbous faces as they shriek, “the milk is being consumed at an alarming rate!!!” Looking in the cupboard: “…and Danny’s consumption of Lucky Charms is unprecedented!!!”
I’m beginning to wonder if these maroons are simply frustrated drama students who wanted to be arts majors but their well-meaning parents pushed them into a “science” degree.
On a slightly more serious note (hick!).
I gather the US climate research program costs $2.5 bn /year. I gather, in the funny money you old colonials use, this would be about half the Aussie figure of AS$5.75 bn.
Does this mean that there are areas of funding, not included in the US budget. Like, subsidies for renewables?
It would be useful to compare to the UK.
Forget “It’s worse than we thought” – guys.
Start practising “Would you like fries with that?”
“The Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency, will have $111 million worth of funding slashed over the next four years, which will affect an uncertain number of programs and a loss of tenth of the CSIRO workforce.”
http://www.rohansalmond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/tony-abbott-carbon-tax-billboard-460×250-1.jpg
http://papundits.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/abbottfamily.jpg
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=tony+abbott+firefighter&FORM=HDRSC2
Is anyone here thinking what I am thinking? EPA and BLM? Is there no Bowie knife in Texas?
They should be cutting faster.
The outlook is bleak from the standpoint of scientists and researchers in Australia, many of whom will probably leave the country in order to find work elsewhere.
The problem with this exodus is that they will all end up in Europe. We are already destroying our eonomies and need no help at all from the Flanaries of Oz.
Never the less I wish, I really wish we had Abbot here in France. The socialist are completely mad !!
Carbontax nest year on all energy, transaction tax on banks and then the clowns say they are going to reduce taxes. Idiots all of them. No-one can kill an economy better than a progressive socialis.
“Finally – real climate refugees? Funding axe may force climate scientists to ‘leave the country in order to find work elsewhere’”
Best laugh all month! (:
5 Billion Dollars is an insanely large budget for a country the size of Australia to put into just one area of science.
Has the money been reshuffled or removed from the science budget entirely?
Maybe they can teach remedial math and science at their local penitentiaries? No computers allowed, only #2 pencils and slide rules.
I think a standing ovation for Joanne Nova is in order!
See her post of May 14.
“Abbott takes Jo’s plan: dumps renewables, pumps medical research”
Of course WUWT should get credit also.
This is an excellent start – provided that true science is not going down the same drain.
wait a second…. austrailia has climate scientists??? I thought those dudes were just bloggers and media hounds making the case in the media not with actual data….. Or… ummm… wait… does austrailia have climate science???
If I hadn’t already opened a bottle of red wine I might instead be popping the cork on a bottle of Champagne.
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