If Tony Abbott thinks, few care about what

December 15, 2023

At COP28, King Charles said, We are seeing alarming tipping points being reached and we are dreadfully far off track as the global stocktake report demonstrates. Noel Turnbull wonders what Tony Abbott thinks. Its not hard to guess. At the inaugural conference of the ultra-conservative Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, just before COP28, Abbott said The climate cult will inevitably be discredited Although Abbott is a staunch catholic, the US-based National Catholic Reporter described him as a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, the UK’s main climate science denial group. He is even at loggerheads with Pope Francis who believes, It is no longer possible to doubt the human anthropic origin of climate change. Like Germaine Greer, Ive never really understood how Abbott could have been a Rhodes Scholar. The boxing at Oxford must have affected his thinking. Unsurprisingly, he scored a very low second for his moral and political philosophy exam. No doubt Abbott is unimpressed with the Kings thoughts on climate change, or the Popes for that matter. But so what? The number of thinking Australians who care what Abbott thinks would fit in a Warringah caf.