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Climate Council raises $1m through its Obama-style fundraising drive
2013-10-07 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The climate change expert Professor Tim Flannery's "Obama-style" campaign to raise cash for a new Climate Council has generated $1m. Flannery was sacked as head of the federal governments Climate Commission when the prime minister, Tony Abbott, announced he was abolishing the body to save money. It was set up two years ago by the former Labor government to increase public awareness of climate change science. The commission once had $1.6m in annual taxpayer funding at its disposal but the new...
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