How Cory Bernardi was inspired to push climate denial from US conservative groups

Cory Bernardi addresses the Senate as he
announces his defection from the Liberal
 party on Tuesday. 

If the dissident conservative senator Cory Bernardi’s new political party shares the views of its founder, then we can chalk up it up as another fringe party firmly in the climate science denial camp.

Ignoring mountains of evidence from multiple lines of inquiry carried out over many decades, Bernardi has for a long time chosen to listen instead to fake experts pushing talking points that walk like zombies through barbecue conversations across Australia.

A Bernardi-led party would join One Nation, Family First, the Liberal Democrats and Rise Up Australia in rejecting the evidence for action on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

Read Graham Readfearn’s story in The Guardian - “How Cory Bernardi was inspired to push climate denial from US conservative groups.”