Tony Abbott's climate change claims just don't stack up

Former prime minister and current backbencher Tony Abbott gave a speech at the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a climate sceptic thinktank, on Monday night.

t
The real Tony Abbott emerges in an
incendiary climate change spech

It was an interesting lecture in that it claimed that climate change isn't real (the "so-called 'settled' science of climate change [is] absolute crap") and also is real but nothing to worry about as the results could be beneficial.

But how accurate were his arguments?

In the same speech, Mr Abbott declared that Australia needed to adopt "evidence-based policy rather than policy-based evidence", which seems like an excellent idea.

So let's take him at his word and look at the evidence for the claims he has made.

Read the ABC News opinion piece boy Tony P. Street - “Tony Abbott's climate change claims just don't stack up.”