Maurice Newman, an influential Australian Government Advisor, attacks Climate Alarmism
Maurice Newman, Chairman of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Council, has published a scathing attack on climate alarmism in “The Australian”, a prominent Aussie daily newspaper.
According to Newman, the world is wearying of constant catastrophism.
“The world is also suspicious of the constant politicisation of science and the attacks meted out to anyone who dares to question the official line. It is asking how personal abuse and the resort to authority and slogans can substitute for reasoned scientific debate.”
Newman cites several examples of bullying, and asks “How many lesser careers have been derailed and projects unfunded because they deviated from the authorised narrative?”
“… as the proof of human-induced global warming evaporates, an orchestrated push for more extreme policy action continues. The celebration of Australia’s 0.8 per cent drop in CO2 “pollution”, the biggest reduction in 24 years (subject to revision), didn’t satisfy the abatement zealots. They want higher taxes and more challenging targets.”
The influence of Maurice Newman on Australian Government policy should not be underestimated.
Maurice Newman has had a distinguished career, and has served as chairman of prominent Australian institutions, such as the Australian Stock Exchange and the ABC, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
One of the first actions of the current Australian government, upon winning the last election, was to appoint Maurice Newman to his current advisory position.
Source: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/opinion/australia-in-danger-of-being-left-out-in-cold-over-global-warming/story-e6frgd0x-1226962987316#
It’s wearying unless your bi-weekly paycheck originates from alarmism.
Thanks Bob. As always clear, easy to understand for us novices. And with lots of links for more info.
Oops! The above was meant for Bob Tisdale’s The 2014/15 El Niño – Part 11 – Is the El Niño Dying?
Aussie has really become the come back wonder from down under. The roll back had to start somewhere, but you’d have got long odds a year ago that it’d be Oz.
Pointma
Right now the NSA is probably researching every phone conversation Maurice Newman has ever made.
Right now the DEA is probably checking their files for any possible youthful indiscretions Maurice Newman engaged in with controlled substances.
Right now the DOJ is probably checking sealed court records to determine if Maurice Newman was involved in a contentious divorce.
Right now the FBI is probably checking their surveillance notes to discover whether Maurice Newman ever had an extramarital affair.
Right now the IRS is scrupulously scrutinizing any possible tax returns that may exist with the name Maurice Newman on them.
Right now the VA is probably looking for a Maurice Newman in their management files so they can pin VA mismanagement on him.
Right now the DNC is probably using their opposition research teams to check for any Republican Party affiliations of Maurice Newman.
Right now Harry Reid is probably preparing a speech for the Senate floor wherein he’ll claim that Maurice Newman is affiliated with the Koch brothers.
Maurice Newman is an Australian and not an American, you say? “What difference does it make?”
How about “The Climate Nazis” or “Science by Govt proclamation”
“The Science Nazis” – we tell you what you need to know, when you need to know it, and how much it will cost you.
I’ll believe it when the rollback reaches and includes the Chicago Way steamroller of science process and fact checking. Until then it looks like teetering Ukrainian sovereignty at the whim of Putin.
The World is Wearying of Climate Catastrophism
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Don’t worry – they will come up with something else.
…but it will have the same culprits: Capitalism, Industrialism, America.
…and the same remedies: socialism, de-industrialisation, a world-wide tax on America for everything, and the UN in charge of all.
Resourceguy
June 23, 2014 at 8:01 am
says:
“I’ll believe it when the rollback reaches and includes the Chicago Way steamroller of science process and fact checking.”
You’ve deeply offended me. Chicago is not both so pathetically wimpy and so grandiose that it brings a steamroller to a fight. As Sean Connery informed us in the ‘Untouchables,’ Chicago brings a gun. And Barack Obama actually repeated his quote: “If they bring a knife to a fight, you bring a gun. It’s the Chicago way.”
Comforting thought, eh?
The earth is still warming. The oceans are still warming. The ice is still melting.
Mother Nature does not care about our politics. Humans are provoking her, If we don’t stop and make amends – she will punish us.
You can keep a population at Code Red only so long before red becomes green.
Anyone have a link to the article thats not behind a paywall?
The world is wearying of climate catastrophism – but the politicians & NGOs are not.
The world needs to get a little more street wise on the games and pranks that periodically come out of cloistered campus unions. The reason for this is the 97% agreement that the 80-20 rule does not apply there. It is more like a 90-10 subrule where real science and real research is only conducted by about 10 percent of the faculty and the rest are a mix blowhards and or time wasters.
rod zeman says:
The earth is still warming. The oceans are still warming. The ice is still melting. Mother Nature does not care about our politics. Humans are provoking her, If we don’t stop and make amends – she will punish us.
You forgot the “/sarc” tag.
Maybe if the disasters were actually happening it would help the cause? Maybe if the globe was actually warming, if flooding was getting worse, if hurricanes were becoming stronger and more frequent, maybe if the winters weren’t producing this bone-chilling polar vortexes people might be less burned out?
Perhaps if the extremists would quit using unprecedented to describe weather events that have happened previously in our lifetimes?
More importantly; have they noticed what it has done to their wallets, and do they realize what it will do?
A lot better than our past government leader –
Henry M. Paulson Jr. is the chairman of the Paulson Institute at the University of Chicago and served as secretary of the Treasury from July 2006 to January 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/opinion/sunday/lessons-for-climate-change-in-the-2008-recession.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%5B%22RI%3A11%22%2C%22RI%3A17%22%5D&_r=0
I was secretary of the Treasury when the credit bubble burst, so I think it’s fair to say that I know a little bit about risk, assessing outcomes and problem-solving. Looking back at the dark days of the financial crisis in 2008, it is easy to see the similarities between the financial crisis and the climate challenge we now face.
We are building up excesses (debt in 2008, greenhouse gas emissions that are trapping heat now). Our government policies are flawed (incentivizing us to borrow too much to finance homes then, and encouraging the overuse of carbon-based fuels now). Our experts (financial experts then, climate scientists now) try to understand what they see and to model possible futures. And the outsize risks have the potential to be tremendously damaging (to a globalized economy then, and the global climate now).
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I’m a businessman, not a climatologist. But I’ve spent a considerable amount of time with climate scientists and economists who have devoted their careers to this issue. There is virtually no debate among them that the planet is warming and that the burning of fossil fuels is largely responsible.
Farseeing business leaders are already involved in this issue. It’s time for more to weigh in. To add reliable financial data to the science, I’ve joined with the former mayor of New York City, Michael R. Bloomberg, and the retired hedge fund manager Tom Steyer on an economic analysis of the costs of inaction across key regions and economic sectors. Our goal for the Risky Business project — starting with a new study that will be released this week — is to influence business and investor decision making worldwide.
Since his effort did nothing to slow / stop the bubble, except pay back the banks and he obviously cannot differentiate good / bad advice from experts why should we listing to his ranting. So listening to the climate experts seems to me to be the same as listening to Goldman Sacs on the economic future.
Please note he is now in Chicago.
Paulson forgot that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs. Not just a hacked up set of computer programs THAT HAVE FAILED TO PREDICT A DAMN THING.
You can only shout “wolf” so many times, before people start to ignore you (and the wolf eats you).
Honestly, how anyone in the USA can still believe this cr@p after the brutal winter you have just had, I really don’t know. The fact that Hussain Obama can stand up and say your are a flat-Earther if you don’t believe in AGW — after the worst winter on record — says everything you need to know about this charlatan. You know that Hussain Obama is being manipulated from behind, by the way he half-smiles – the very same half-smile a dummy has, when the ventriloquist inserts his arm up his backside.
R
Good on ya mate, looking forward to the day we get something similar said in the UK.
But will it ever happen in Europe, with its coalition govts, with “Greens” required to keep the govt going, and often put in charge of Environment because they insist on it.
If Greens have only 5% of the vote they should only get 5% of Environment.
@Rod Zeman
Translation: Repent!! ….and give me all your money.
@Marcos
Google – Australia in danger of being left out in cold over global warming
More ‘good news’ extolled in The Telegraph today:
The scandal of fiddled global warming data
The US has actually been cooling since the Thirties, the hottest decade on record
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/10916086/The-scandal-of-fiddled-global-warming-data.html