The UK government is being urged to sack one of its trade advisers after he joined a thinktank that has denied the scale of the climate crisis and campaigned against net zero.
A former chief executive of the Bureau of Meteorology says the 67-year-old law that underpins Australia’s weather agency needs to be updated to bring it in line with the modern-day climate crisis.
In a speech to a conservative US think tank, Abbott heaped praise US President Donald Trump, essentially endorsing him for a second term in the White House.
The independent candidate told Guardian Australia that Abbott had "continually denied climate change" and the conversation had "moved on" from carbon pricing because renewables were already cheaper than coal.
The Australian Parliament has proven itself unable to reach consensus on climate change policy, even when the parties are close enough to touch. It's a familiar tale.
