CSIRO cuts will leave us blind: SBS

Cutting climate science is like throwing out your speedometer while driving at full speed down a road you have never been down before. We know the direction, but we lose our ability to control how fast we are going. So what will be the impact? It doesn’t take an innovative entrepreneur of a start up to figure it out.

Yet late last week Larry Marshall, Chief Executive of the CSIRO sent an email to staff announcing his plan to decimate the CSIRO’s highly revered climate science division. The move is incredibly short-sighted and apparently caught even the CSIRO‘blindsided’.

It seems Abbott climate policies are alive and flourishing in a Turnbull government.

Read the SBS story - “Comment: CSIRO cuts will leave us blind heading into the future.”