George Brandis says climate science not settled, but CSIRO should act as if it is
by Gareth Hutchens from Environment | The Guardian on (#1B0JY)
Attorney general attacks 'illogic' of Labor's opposition to cuts and says taxpayers' money would be better spent elsewhere
The attorney general, George Brandis, has mounted a bizarre defence of the Turnbull government's funding cuts to the CSIRO, saying there is no need to keep funding climate science if the science of climate change is settled - but adding that he personally doesn't believe it is settled.
Brandis said the science body's decision to cut funding for its scientists, who have produced vital climate science research - in response to the former Abbott government's cuts to the CSIRO in 2014 - is what it ought to do if it believes climate change is real.