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"A leading Australian climate scientist says the national science agency,
CSIRO, has been turned into a “very extravagant consulting company” under the
Coalition, with its scientists barred from speaking publicly about government
policy.
The warning from Prof David Karoly follows his retirement from the Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in February after more than 40
years as one of the most respected voices in climate science.
Karoly, who worked on four of the six major assessments by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, returned to CSIRO in 2018. He agreed
to head its Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub in the wake of the chief
executive, Larry Marshall, making deep cuts to the organisation’s climate
science capacity on the grounds the problem was “proven”. That push was
partially reversed after public and political pressure, with Marshall later
acknowledging it had been a mistake. Karoly signed on to help build a new
program.
In an interview with
Guardian Australia, Karoly says he knew the job would be
challenging, and some people “questioned my sanity” for taking it on. He says
he found budget cuts and changes in management had transformed CSIRO from a
body focused on public good science into one reliant on external contracts to
survive."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
