Australia PM: Climate change not causing wildfires

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Yeah, there's no evidence.

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That calculation is based on "sleight of hand and faulty logic", said Bob Ward, policy director at the London School of Economics Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and it ignores the possibility of warming at the higher end of estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Sir John Loughton, lead editor of the first three reports by the IPCC, the UN's climate panel, called the book "neither cool nor rational", saying it showed a "surprising ignorance of elementary statistical analysis" and ignored the impact of more frequent floods and droughts.
When told of Mr Howard's comments, climate scientist Tim Flannery said it was unclear which particular aspects of the science the former prime minister was doubtful about.
Contrary to Mr Howard’s assertions, Professor Flannery said climate scientists had established a direct link between global warming and an increased risk of extreme weather and events such as bushfires.
Professor Flannery recommended some additional reading material for Mr Howard, when told that the only book the former prime minister had read on climate change was Mr Lawson's tome.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/ ... z2jpwJqHCE

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Howard was disgraced as a PM, as too will Abbott be. The problem is the voting public never learns. We'll still be voting in conservative climate change skeptics 10 years from now.