Global Climate Change Action

There should be no surprise Don Burke has joined Gunns.

The self-described "practical environmentalist" (perhaps in the manner of John Howard's "practical reconciliation") was until earlier this year head of the "Australian Environment Foundation"
an Institute of Public Affairs-linked group of climate change denialists, opponents of landclearing restrictions and nuclear power and timber industry supporters. An Institute of Public Affairs-linked group of climate change denialists, opponents of landclearing restrictions and nuclear power and timber industry supporters.

Burke has described the environmental movement as "obsolete"
and "the greatest threat to the world's environment".

Gunns received an award from the Foundation in 2006 for grasslands
management and protection of an endangered butterfly

Gunns has also provided funding to the IPA.

-- Bernard Keane
- from today's Crikey
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Reference links:
AEF: http://www.aefweb.info/index.php?source=cmailer
ABC Story: "AEF Honours Gunns" http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200609/s1752110.htm?source=cmailer
Don Burke Retires as Chair of AEF: http://jennifermarohasy.com/blog/2008/09/don-burke-retires-as-chair-of-t...
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thanks to Peter from the CCA Group

Everything you need to know about the corruption of climate change policy in Australia:

Is Howard being fair dinkum?
Jill Singer
June 04, 2007

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21841497-5000117,00.html

JILL Singer writes: How seriously does John Howard take climate change? Consider who he chooses to listen to on this issue so vital to our future.
Until last year, the man John Howard appointed to advise him on science policy was Dr Robert Batterham.
How confident can Australians be that he provided independent advice?

At the same time that Dr Batterham was working as the PM's chief scientist, he was earning an estimated $700,000 a year as a director of Rio Tinto, a company with a huge vested interest in Australia's carbon policy.

Taxpayers also fund the Commonwealth Government's Australian Greenhouse Office.
Gwen Andrews was its chief executive for four years, including the period John Howard was meant to be deliberating whether to ratify Kyoto. According to Andrews, he did not ask her for a single briefing.

Dr Graeme Pearman was for many years the head of the CSIRO's Division of Atmospheric Research and reveals that CSIRO scientists were gagged under pressure from the Government.
They were not allowed to talk about the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.