Science, in all its
wonders and subtleties, has lifted humanity from a life that was “nasty,
brutish and short”.
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| Environment Minister, Mr Greg Hunt. |
Interestingly, the present Australian Government appears
patently opposed to embracing our grasp of scientific knowledge and just today
the ABC has reported the our Environment Minister, Greg Hunt, has shown little
concern for, or interest in, advice from the UN’s panel on climate change.
The government’s intent seems to be one of taking us back to
an era of “nasty, brutish and short”.
In what appears to be an inexplicable contradiction between
words and action, Mr Hunt says the government shares the panel’s goal to limit
emissions growth and so restrict the increase in global temperatures to two
degrees above pre-industrial levels.
Action to date by the Coalition Government that they
actually mean what they say and have any grasp at all of the science of climate
change.
A story headed: “Environment Minister Greg Hunt resists IPCC pressure for deep cuts to carbon emissions” reports that the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change has called for global emission cuts of up to 70 per cent
by the middle of the decade.
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