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The climate madness of Conservative White Males like Maurice Newman

Tony Abbott’s advisor Maurice Newman shows a different kind of climate change madness’ Guardian, Graham Readfearn, 7 Jan 14  What might be the cause of the extreme climate science denial on public display from the Australian government’s top business advisor? ” ……Maybe the documented CWM effect – the high prevalence of climate change denialism among conservative white males – is especially strong in the 75-year-old former stockbroker, banker and chair of the ABC and the ASX?

Whatever the cause, Newman has turned his conspiracy theory dial well passed 11 with his latest outburst.

In a column published in The Australian newspaper he wrote that the “climate change establishment” (whatever that is) is intent only on “exploiting the masses and extracting more money”. Newman wrote that the United Nations “has applied mass psychology through a compliant media” (he really did write that) to fool the world into thinking  the activities of industrialised countries have changed the climate.

“The scientific delusion, the religion behind the climate crusade, is crumbling,” wrote Newman, before citing Dr Roy Spencer, a research scientist at the University of Alabama……

Spencer concluded that the “theory of creation actually had a much better scientific basis than the theory of evolution”…….

Mr Newman could have asked Australia‘s science minister about that, if only we had one……

Newman is just one of a clutch of climate change scepticswhich have the ear of the Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

Newman says Australia has “become hostage to climate change madness”.

Now, given Australia has just experienced its warmest year on record at a time when the world – with Australia’s help – is pumping CO2 into the atmosphere at a rate not seen in at least 65m years, I’d say he’s probably right about the “madness” part.

Just, not in the way he meant. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/jan/07/maurice-newman-climate-change-denial-tony-abbott-roy-spencer

January 8, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News