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Australia: It took only two days for Abbott's 'conversion' to climate change to be exposed
2014-11-21 09:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bribane Times: Prime Minister Tony Abbott's apparent, if modest, conversion to the idea that climate change was an "important subject" following talks with French president Francois Hollande on Wednesday was greeted with no small measure of cynicism. This was, after all, a politician who had built a political career on climate scepticism, with his famous remark in 2010 that it was "absolute crap" to assert the science was settled. It took only two days, but the doubters can claim vindication after revelations...
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Australia: World leaders turn up heat on Tony Abbotts climate change stance
2014-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Mail: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been struggling to avoid one very hot topic at Brisbane's G20 summit but it seems it was inevitable. With Sunday's temperature scorching to over 40, climate change has been a very topical conversation among world leaders, who have probed the Aussie PM in a number of 'difficult discussions'. With the G20 nations turning up the heat on the host and Australian PM for some 'real action' on the issue, the final address confirmed the G20 nations have strongly...
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The ten worst environment decisions in Abbott's first year
2014-09-06 00:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: This Sunday marks a year since Tony Abbott was elected. The prime minister is riding low in the opinion polls as the least popular prime minister in twenty five years, with a net dissatisfaction rating of minus 19. There's little doubt that Mr Abbott's unpopularity is driven by many things; he was unpopular even before his election in 2013. The litany of broken promises could be one reason. His attempts to unravel the Australian social compact, mostly encapsulated in his first budget, could be...
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Australia: We need to call out Abbott's climate nihilism
2014-08-22 23:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Perhaps nothing better exemplifies the spinelessness, hypocrisy and turpitude of prime minister Tony Abbott's position on climate change than his comments on 3AW in December 2009: "Climate change is real. But I think there are lots of legitimate questions about its extent, how much humans are causing it, and certainly there is a very real and necessary debate about the mechanism for dealing with it." Abbott made this sneering reference to climate science and global climate change mitigation efforts...
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A climate change convention: Clive Palmer really knows how to mess with Abbotts mind
2014-08-18 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: Clive Palmer may have all sorts of motives but one surely is to drive Tony Abbott to distraction. As Palmer put it on Monday, after sending Joe Hockeys chief of staff Grant Lovett on his way to do more work on budget measures, the government had found it quite surprising that it did not have the power to govern that it had to go to PUP on things. Perhaps not so much surprising as infuriating and humiliating. Palmer announced, following his talks with the Hockey officials about the mining...
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