Climate change measures like 'primitive civilisations offering up sacrifices to appease the gods', says Maurice Newman
The Abbott government's chief business adviser says too much time has been spent focusing on global warming and as a result Australians are "ill prepared" to deal with the prospect of global cooling. Maurice Newman, who has been vocal in his climate change scepticism, has attacked governments, including the former Labor government, for pursuing "green gesture politics" by introducing carbon price signals in an opinion piece for the Murdoch-owned News Corp publication The Australian. He likened the measures to "primitive civilisations offering up sacrifices to appease the gods".
Eric Worrall ■ Maurice Newman, Aussie PM Abbott’s most senior advisor, on the dangers of global cooling