CSIRO chief says row over climate science cuts 'more like religion than science'

Larry Marshall says the climate lobby 'is perhaps more powerful than the energy lobby was back in the 70s' and criticises 'emotion' in debate

CSIRO chief Larry Marshall said the reaction to his planned cuts to climate science in the organisation is more like religion than science, and compared climate science with the oil lobby in the 1970s.

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