People in the wrong place with the wrong values and ideals - 'I weep'

(I weep, metaphorically, when people who doubt and question climate science are elected and subsequently appointed to influential positions within government – here is another example of people desperately clinging to 20^th Century values and ideas being given the responsibility of influencing decisions of the 21^st Century that will have a legacy well into the 22^nd Century, and even longer. It is obvious that most people have serious trouble thinking beyond the lives of their grandchildren, and some are not able, even to consider life that far advanced – Robert McLean.)

Liberal member for Hughes Craig Kelly with Tony Abbott
during question time in 2015. Kelly has been appointed
chairman of the environment and energy committee.

The  Liberal MP Craig Kelly has been appointed chairman of the backbench environment and energy committee, with National party MP Kevin Hogan as secretary.

The committee will provide feedback on legislation and policies relating to the environment and energy, including to the minister, Josh Frydenberg

Kelly served on the committee during the last parliament and previously invited climate sceptics to “balance” a presentation given by top climate scientists.

He has been writing on the issue for a number of years, noting that the convicts found it hotter in the 1700s.

“But I wonder if any of these people actually knew that Sydney’s so-called ‘record hot day’ on Tuesday 8th Jan this year [2013], that had them screaming “Global Warming”, was actually COOLER than the weather experienced by the convicts of the First Fleet in Sydney way back in the summer of 1790/91?” Kelly wrote.

He wrote on his Facebook page during the election campaign: “And with freezing temperatures and even snow forecast for Melbourne’s outskirts and in parts of New South Wales, I hope many of the warmists haven’t sold their coats.”

Read The Guardian story - “Climate sceptic MP appointed chair of environment and energy committee.”