Climate change activists have reacted hysterically to news that a think tank run by “sceptical environmentalist” Bjorn Lomborg is to be given state funding by Australia. (h/t Bishop Hill)
Earlier this month the Australian government announced the awarding of a $4 million grant to the University of Western Australia’s (UWA) business school for the establishment of the Australia Consensus Centre, in partnership with Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Centre.According to the UWA, the program will aim to “identify the key challenges facing Australia and the world”, and advise the government on potential policy reforms and other interventions that will deliver the most cost-effective solutions.”
Predictably, environmentalists have reacted with fury, taking to Twitter to brand Lomborg a ‘denier’ and question why the Abbott government was handing out the funds.
Some of the reactions include:
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Watch the movie Cool It on netflix. He's not really a "denier". He's a believer in Global Warming/Climate Change, he just doesn't agree with the apocalyptic way Al Gore and others promote it or try to convince people. It doesn't convince people. It wastes money. He believes in solutions (education, agriculture, healthcare...) that deal with the effects in a more cost effective way. Not scare the crap out of people and destroy their economies in the process thinking we reverse anything.
ReplyDeleteThanks and it's all BS, just an income redistribution scheme.
DeleteDr. Robinson (Dixie's Homeschooler) Myth Of Global Warming
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More than 31,000 American scientists have signed the following petition which Dr. Art Robinson initiated. His Power Point Presentation below compares their findings against the opposition, and lists the names of the scientists who signed.