Legislation needed to axe Climate Change Authority. Public to be kept in the dark
”what will the future think of the people who voted for this action?”
Mr Hunt declined to respond to questions from Fairfax Media.
Scientists say climate cuts leave public in the dark September 19, 2013 Peter Hannam, The Age Carbon economy editor The Abbott government’s plan to make scrapping the Climate Commission and the Climate Change Authority among its first priorities will deprive Australians of independent information on global warming just when it is needed most, leading scientists say.
Staff at the Climate Commission, a federal body set up to publicise climate-change science, have all but ceased work as they await instructions from new Environment Minister Greg Hunt.
The Climate Change Authority, a statutory body that will need a change in legislation before it can be axed, is continuing work on a draft report due out next month. That report will recommend the level of cuts to greenhouse gas emissions Australia should set and also details international efforts to combat climate change.
”Unfortunately, the science has been sucked into this vortex of a highly politicised approach to climate change. We’ve got a rapidly destabilising climate. It does pose risks for us.”……
Professor David Karoly, a member of the Climate Change Authority who also serves on the science advisory panel of the Climate Commission, said the new government’s actions were well flagged. He said the question, though, was ”what will the future think of the people who voted for this action?”
Professor Karoly also noted comments by Maurice Neuman, expected to chair the Abbott government’s Business Advisory Council, attacking the CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology for propagating the ”myth of anthropological climate change”. ”He’s obviously an important adviser to the government and he’s misinformed about climate change,” he said.
Mr Hunt declined to respond to questions from Fairfax Media.
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