Australia’s chief scientist tells PM's business adviser to stick to economics

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    Australia’s chief scientist tells PM's business adviser to stick to economics


    Global cooling proponent Maurice Newman urged not to ‘trawl the internet’ for papers questioning scientific opinion
    Chief scientist Professor Ian Chubb rejects assertions that climate science is a delusion. Photograph: Alan Porritt/AAP
    Australia’s chief scientist has suggested Tony Abbott’s top business adviser should stick to economics rather than “trawl the internet” for papers questioning the overwhelming scientific opinion on global warming.
    Maurice Newman, former chairman of disallowed and the ABC and now chairman of Abbott’s business advisory council, wrote an article in the Australian last week in which he warned that the world would be ill-prepared for global cooling, citing scientific papers predicting this would be the result of reduced solar activity.
    Asked about the article, chief scientist Ian Chubb told Guardian Australia: “If you trawl the internet on a regular enough basis you can come up with the sorts of things that article was saying, but you still need to explain why the huge, the overwhelming scientific evidence says the opposite.

    http://www.theguardian.com/science/...ls-pms-business-adviser-to-stick-to-economics
 
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