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Australia’s Opposition leaders not interested in global warming. Abbott too busy fighting fires

Blaming climate change for heatwave ‘simplistic’, The Age January 10,
2013 Judith Ireland ACTING Opposition Leader Warren Truss says it is
”too simplistic” to link the current heatwave and fires to climate
change……

Earlier this week, when touring fire-affected areas of
Tasmania, Prime Minister Julia Gillard linked extreme weather events
to climate change. She said: ”While you would not put any one event
down to climate change … we do know that over time as a result of
climate change we are going to see more extreme-weather events.”

As Fairfax Media reported on Wednesday, the Bureau of Meteorology says
this heatwave – in terms of its duration, intensity and extent – is
unprecedented in its records.
Mr Truss is acting Opposition Leader as Tony Abbott has been deployed
to Nowra, New South Wales, as a volunteer with his local fire brigade.
Mr Abbott has delayed his annual holiday by three days to help the
Davidson Rural Fire Brigade. :
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/blaming-climate-change-for-heatwave-simplistic-20130109-2cgug.html#ixzz2HbICnoMZ

January 10, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, climate change - global warming