Vitriolic climate in academic hothouse
Prof Ian Plimer
In today’s Australian, Prof Ian Plimer writes: IT is well known that many university staff list to port and try to engineer a brave new world. The cash cow climate institutes now seem to be drowning in their own self-importance.
In a wonderful gesture of public spiritedness, seven academics who include three lead authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a former director of the World Climate Research Program wrote to Australian power generating companies on April 29 instructing them to cease and desist creating electricity from coal.
In their final paragraph, they state with breathtaking arrogance: “The unfortunate reality is that genuine action on climate change will require the existing coal-fired power stations to cease operating in the near future.
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