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The Australian prime minister's chief business
adviser says that climate change is a ruse led by the United Nations to create
a new world order under the agency's control. The statement coincided with a
visit from the UN's top climate negotiator.
Maurice
Newman, chairman of Prime Minister Tony Abbott's business advisory council,
said the UN is using false models which show sustained temperature increases
because it wants to end democracy and impose authoritarian rule.
RT.com reports:
"It's
a well-kept secret, but 95 percent of the climate models we are told prove the
link between human CO2 emissions and catastrophic global warming have been
found, after nearly two decades of temperature stasis, to be in error," he
wrote in an opinion piece published in The Australian newspaper on Friday,
without providing evidence.
"The
real agenda is concentrated political authority. Global warming is the hook,”
he said, adding that the UN is against capitalism and freedom and wants to
create a “new world order.”
The
adviser's inflammatory comments coincided with a visit from UN climate chief
Christiana Figueres.
According
to Newman, Figueres is “on record saying democracy is a poor political system
for fighting global warming. Communist China, she says, is the best model.”
Figueres
was in Australia to discuss practical climate change action, urging the country
to move away from heavily polluting coal production. She also urged Australia
to play a leading role at the climate summit in Paris in December.
But that
call is unlikely to be heeded. During November's G20 meeting in Brisbane,
Abbott warned that the Paris summit would fail if world leaders decided
prioritize the cutting of carbon emissions over economic growth.
Abbott,
who called the science behind climate change “crap” in 2009, also repealed a
tax on carbon pricing and abolished the independent Climate Commission advisory
body in Australia.
The prime
minister has been reluctant to take part in climate change politics, trying but
failing to keep it off the agenda at last year's G20 summit.
Both
Abbott's office and the United Nations have so far declined to comment on
Newman's statements.
A
well-known climate change skeptic, Newman has made similar provocative comments
in the past, calling the notion a “myth” and a “delusion.”
In
February, he criticized renewable energy policies. Citing British charity Age
UK, he stated that elderly citizens in Britain often die of “winter deaths”
because they can't afford power. He blamed renewable energy policies which
drive up the price of energy.
However,
when asked about his claim by The Guardian, the charity sent back a statement
which referenced high energy costs, but failed to mention anything about
renewable energy.
Just a few
months earlier, in November 2014, Newman cited a Scottish
government-commissioned study which allegedly said that for every job in the
renewable sector, 3.7 jobs were lost elsewhere. However, the report itself made
no mention that it was commissioned by the government. In fact, the government
called the study “misleading,” adding that the industry would actually have the
opposite effect on jobs.
According to the UN's
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the global mean temperature could
rise by up to 4.8° Celsius (40.6° Fahrenheit) this century alone. The
prediction is seen as a recipe for droughts, floods and rising seas.
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