Environment Minister Grey Hunt’s attempts to dismiss the connection between climate change and the NSW fires by citing the Wikipedia has generated laughs around the world.
#GregHuntReserach has been generating all kinds of mirth:
https://twitter.com/scottsues/status/393495219045269504
https://twitter.com/HutchHussein/status/393460466640359424
https://twitter.com/frucheman/status/393353209298710528
Jump in and have fun, but do keep it civil and refrain from personal insults.
Satire is fine, but abuse isn’t.
Watching the Deniers 
I do not think that the problem was the wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushfires_in_Australia
No, the climate link is made and referenced there.
Of course the problem is that he ignored the question as asked, and came across like somebody obfuscating on a blog. Or Bob Carter.
Imposing, or attempting to impose, a parallel reality. These chumps have got to realise that,while they are in opposition to reality,they are not in Opposition any more.
Desperate attempts to wave away climate change aren’t working anymore…
Indeed…
Here was my effort… https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BXVqGO2CUAEwiXQ.png:large
😀
http://www.theguardian.com/world/planet-oz/2013/oct/23/climate-change-tony-abbott-australia-bushfire-science
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-25/climate-council-links-bushfires-to-climate-change/5046164
As the Federal Government continues to reject claims that recent bushfires are linked with climate change, a report by scientists has stirred the debate further by saying the two are indeed linked.
Hunt from no link to Mr Hunt says he and Prime Minster Tony Abbott accept the science on the broad link between bushfire risk and climate change.
Really? I rather suspect that to use Mr Abbott’s own words that’s “absolute crap!” 😉
well at least they know were Sydney is
Channel seven this morning had a discussion about the NSW bushfires, it featured a video from the RFS firefighters urging action on climate change after the disastrous Victorian fires,
Greg Hunt was invited to attend but had stated ” I do not wish to talk about it”
would have been good if he had turned up and was shown the Wiki article he quoted and the warnings therein.
He apparently accepts the connect between climate change and increasing bushfires but denies the link in the current NSW fires
the cartoon in today’s paper was a flying pig emerging from the flames of the climate change fires with “complete hogwash written on it’s side, a reporter is asking Abbott, “one of yours?
[…] Greg Hunt became an international laughing-stock with his now infamous “I looked it up on Wikipedia” comments. […]
Wonder how long Hunt will remain environment minister and who will replace him when he’s dropped or (shudder)promoted for his “work”?