The reasoning of climate skeptics is 'spurious'

Dorothea Mackellar.

The retreat by many to metaphors painted by Dorothea Mackellar is absurd reasoning, according to university research fellows, Sophie Lewis and Sarah Perkins.

Sophie, from the University of Melbourne, and Sarah, from the University of New South Wales, say references to the poet’s 1908 writings are simply “spurious”.

Sophie and Sarah were critical of those who found comfort in the poem “My Country” using it to legitimise their view that the extreme weather events were just natural variation.

An article headed: “Global meteorology report puts yet more heat on climate politics” by the pair of research fellows was published today on The Conversation.