Climate Scientist David Karoly Furious CSIRO Refocussed on Solving Genuine Problems
18 hours ago Eric Worrall 52 Comments
Essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Dr. Willie Soon; Climate scientist David Karoly has slammed the Aussie Conservative Government for diverting CSIRO attention away from working on “settled science”, towards providing “customer driven science”, consultancy services for businesses.
CSIRO has become ‘extravagant consulting company’, one of its former top climate scientists says
After cutting ties with the agency, Prof David Karoly is free of its restrictions on commenting on climate policy
Adam Morton
Climate and environment editor @adamlmorton Mon 2 May 2022 03.30 AEST
A leading Australian climate scientist says the national science agency, CSIRO, has been turned into a “very extravagant consulting company” under the Coalition, with its scientists barred from speaking publicly about government policy.
Karoly, who worked on four of the six major assessments by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, returned to CSIRO in 2018. He agreed to head its Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub in the wake of the chief executive, Larry Marshall, making deep cuts to the organisation’s climate science capacity on the grounds the problem was “proven”. That push was partially reversed after public and political pressure, with Marshall later acknowledging it had been a mistake. Karoly signed on to help build a new program.
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