After 20K Stage Spontaneous March In Sydney, Morrison "Acknowledges" Warming, Won't Change Anything

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Scott Morrison has moved to reassure voters he understands the bushfires are a natural emergency and he accepts the link between climate change and an extended fire season, while dismissing international censure of his government’s climate policies as “not credible”.

After a substantial protest in Sydney on Wednesday and weeks of criticism over his hands-off response to the catastrophic fire emergency, Morrison said he had acknowledged “all year” the impact of climate change on Australia’s bushfire season. But he continued to defend the government’s climate policy as being adequate and pleaded for the nation to “come together”. “We will continue to work to reduce our emissions, as we should,” he said from Melbourne on Thursday.

Ed. - The smarmy non-answer of an ideologically envenomated "leader".

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Australia has been criticised on the international stage for its emissions reduction policies, with a group of thinktanks ranking the nation the worst-performing country on climate change from a newly created list of 57. The re-elected Morrison government was singled out as a “regressive force” on the issue. The prime minister “completely rejected” the report, saying he did not believe it to be “credible”.

Morrison spoke just hours after the emissions reduction minister, Angus Taylor, avoided speaking on Australia’s controversial plan to double-count Kyoto emissions reductions credits in its Paris reduction total, while attending a global climate summit in Madrid. The move has been challenged as being against the spirit of the latest global climate agreement, and one in which Australia stands alone.

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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/dec/12/morrison-responds-to-fears-over-bushfires-but-rejects-censure-of-climate-policy