Guardian: The Abbott government is desperately constructing a straw man to help it fight the potentially big political problem of rising public concern about climate change and scrutiny of its Direct Action policy.
The straw man is the contention that anyone making a perfectly reasonable and scientifically justifiable point -- that climate change is likely to cause a higher prevalence of the weather conditions that pose a bushfire risk -- has actually been making the unreasonable and scientifically unjustifiable......
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Australia: Bushfires: Coalition deploys straw man against burning issue of climate change
Posted by Guardian: Lenore Taylor on October 24th, 2013
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