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"The UK government is being urged to sack one of its trade advisers after he
joined a thinktank that has denied the scale of the climate crisis and
campaigned against net zero.
Tony Abbott, a former Australian prime minister, announced this week that he
had joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).
Abbott has been a member of the UK government’s Board of Trade since 2020,
advising on post-Brexit deals, with Australia now a key trading partner since
the UK left the EU.
But sources at the Department for Business and Trade said Abbott would not be
dismissed, despite an outcry from parliamentarians and climate campaigners.
The GWPF has produced reviews – at odds with mainstream science – that claim
the climate emergency is not happening. Members of the thinktank have shared
work suggesting that a rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could be a good
thing. Presenting a report last year, the GWPF’s director, Dr Benny Peiser,
said: “It’s extraordinary that anyone should think there is a climate crisis.”
Recently, the thinktank started Net Zero Watch, a campaigning platform
highlighting what it calls the “costs of net zero”. GWPF is being looked into
by the Charity Commission after claims from MPs and lawyers that it does not
meet its aims as a charity and is a lobbying organisation."
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
