Ex - Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott is presently in Londoncozying up with like - minded climate skepticsat the spectacular thinktank Global Warming Policy Foundation , this week . A smattering of media outlets , includingThe GuardianandABC News , take they were deny attendanceto the event , but fortunately , Abbott ’s team put thewhole speech transcript on his websitefor the earth to bask – and what a beauty it is .
During his language , Abbott consistently denied human - drive mood alteration , but then also said mood change was a cocksure thing , claiming it is " probably doing good ; or at least , more good than hurt . "
He explain that " far more people die in cold-blooded snaps than in heat wave so a gradual lift in planetary temperature … might even be beneficial . "
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He also likened policies to address clime change to “ naive citizenry once kill goat to stay the volcano gods , " accusing them of " sacrifice our industries and our living banner to the mood gods to small more upshot . ” ascertain out Donald , Tony is out - sound - biting you right now .
Another treasure from the confusing language was his assertion that “ environmentalism has managed to combine a post - socialist inherent aptitude for braggart government with a post - Christian nostalgia for making sacrifices for a good cause . ”
The immense bulk of the speech , however , was pitch towards throwing dubiousness on make up climate science , compare anyone opposing it to being capable to “ the Inquisition ” and the “ thought - police ” of George Orwell’s1984 .
“ Almost as high-risk is the title that ‘ 99 percentage of scientists think ’ as if scientific the true is square off by votes rather than facts , ” he said , both miss the point and wrong using the word " believe " .
His panorama on climate change was most distinctly highlighted in his concluding annotation : “ Looking at the mood record over millions of years , one day it will probably come ; whatever we do today wo n’t block off it , and when it come , it will have piddling to do with the carbon copy dioxide emissions of man . ”
The former leader from down under is for sure no stranger to pronouncing his purview on clime change . Back in 2009 , while he was in power as PM , he magnificently declaredthat climate change was “ absolute crap . ” However , in 2014,he saidhe takes climate change “ very seriously ” and he regards himself “ as a conservationist , ” a view that seems less pronounced now that he ’s not prize minister .
