Guardian: The decision to gut Australias government science agency of climate research may seem hard to fathom. But lets pause from the hyperventilation of the past week and ask whether there is an underlying logic.
Could the shift from studying how climate changes, to studying ways of mitigating and adapting to climate change, be a good thing?
The CSIROs chief executive, Larry Marshall, who is responsible for the decision, has deployed several arguments in defending the move. Lets take a look at...