Ian Chubb's final piece of advice: 'Don't flinch!'

Outgoing chief scientist, Ian Chubb -
parting advice: "Don't flinch".

Australia’s chief scientist through the bitter “climate wars” has some advice for scientists denigrated and disparaged by those who do not like their evidence-based advice: “don’t flinch”.

And as he prepares to leave the job on Friday, Ian Chubb has some unflinching parting advice – Australia will inevitably have to adopt tougher greenhouse gas reduction targets.

Chubb is also on the board of the independent Climate Change Authority, which the Abbott government unsuccessfully sought to abolish, and he is convinced Australia will eventually have to adopt targets similar to those advocated by the CCA.

ReadThe Guardian story - “Outgoing chief scientist Ian Chubb says tougher greenhouse gas targets inevitable.”