Failed climate science logic could cost taxpayers $billions - Pitman

Andy Pittman - 'most ill-informed statement
I have ever heard from a senior executive.
 

Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday, CSIRO chief executive Larry Marshall offered the following justification for his decision to cut 110 jobs from the agency’s climate science staff:

“We have spent probably a decade trying to answer the question “is the climate changing?” … After [December’s] Paris [climate summit] that question has been answered. The next question now is what do we do about it? The people that were so brilliant at measuring and modelling [climate change], they might not be the right people to figure out how to adapt to it.”

That is among the most ill-informed statements I have ever heard from a senior executive. It will take a little to unpack it and to show that the apparent decision to dramatically downscale CSIRO’s ocean and atmospheric research will cost taxpayers and governments billions of dollars in flawed investments unless, by sheer blind luck, the right guesses are made.

Read the story on The Conversation by the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science at University of New South Wales in Australia, Andy Pitman - “CSIRO boss’s failed logic over climate science could waste billions in taxes.”