Science Minister says climate denial a waste of time in wake of fires

Australia's bushfire crisis has prompted a blunt warning from Science Minister Karen Andrews to those she says are wasting time arguing about whether climate change is real.

Science Minister Karen Andrews wants Australians to stop wasting time arguing about whether climate change is real and start coming up with answers to it."Every second we spend discussing if climate change is real is a second we don't spend addressing these issues. Let's move on and get over this," she told theMs Andrews warned unnecessary debate could distract from the urgent need to develop new bushfire adaptation and mitigation techniques.

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This just proves that the LNP has chosen not to listen, seek recommendations or have scientists regularly consult them on climate change, global warming and the environmental impacts up until now. Of course it’s just not good enough to seek counsel and not act in a meaningful way

How many YEARS have we been trying to tell this Govt Geez. Yes. Let's not waste another minute. Let's move quickly beyond prevention and straight to adaptation.., because we wouldn't want to upset all the LNP coal donors

Can’t see her lasting long

Totally agree.....less talk and more action! Lack of action is what has fed into the disastrous situation here in Australia. Sometimes it seem that politicians are just about talk and opinions and paid to do that while all their good intentions get lost in their hyperbole etc!

That will only be achieved with a change of Gov't as everyone knows

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“Get over this” like it’s a cold or something 🤷🏾‍♂️

If we had back burned NONE OF THE BUSHFIRES would have happened or very little as previous years

“Karen has a history of breaking down barriers. She worked at power stations in Qld, and in Victoria she became both the first female and the youngest plant engineer employed by a petrochemical company”. Big surprise 👎

Oh sure, keep polishing the turd. ThisIsNotJournalism

Politicians represent all Australians. 'There's a debate over climate change!' Next line she stifles debate and in a bigoted manner starts name calling 'deniers!'. Bad news for everybody when politicians think they have the right to hold a large portion of the country in contempt

Wake up Minister.

Is there still a smoke haze over Canberra & when does federal parliament start sitting again .....just wonderin 🤔

Apparently she goes around happy she just said on the project. She’s happy we all should be ‘happy’. Whatever ‘happy’ is

They have been wasting a hell of a lot of seconds...

How many seconds have we wasted over the last six and a half years of Coalition denialism?

Look who’s been walking around with a bag over her head for 10 years. karenandrewsmp - get us a price on carbon before it’s too late. (Hint - it almost is) auspol ClimateEmergency

About time! She needs to convince her PM and MPs! 9NewsAUS abcnews science

precisely!

Unfortunately it looks like the leftie rent a crowd can only bag everything with negative political rhetoric. Really tired of all the noise created by the lemmings

What they've let the who knew we had one science minister Andrews out of box

Adapt or die I guess.

Too little too late karenandrewsmp

I'm over her stupidity, let's 'move on' for her

Since when did we have a minister for science? Who is she, what electorate does she represent? More like a minister for science denial up until now?

So sad that this woman's work is having to deal with the tendentious credenda of the LNP.

Who is she trying to convince? We already know, the only people who don’t know are in her government.

karenandrewsmp was a mechanical engineer who worked for power stations and has been Minister for Science since August last year and was assistant Minister for Science under the Abbott Government, is now telling us 'it is time to move on'. How about you move on.

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EDavidAn 'Adapt' - using this term is soft denial rather than hard denial. Saw plenty of people 'adapting' by huddling on beaches or in evacuation centres whilst their houses burnt down. Unfortunately a billion animals were unable to 'adapt' and simply died. 😢 auspol ClimateEmergency

We don't have climate change, we have a ClimateCrisis

Read: 'Let's keep the destruction of the environment going, no need to stop that. What we will do though is give the private sector $$$ to build sea walls, fire barriers, hydrogen fuel from coal (AngusTaylorMP's pet) etc - we can build our way out of this and grow the economy!'

So the mouse is the puppet for the what, how little can we get away with excuse, but no real action factory in the pmo

So, there is some hope in the LNP.

Resilience & adaptatin, eh? That scottyfrommarketing is a sneaky devil! Don’t be fooled, people, there’s nothing new to see here.

Can’t wait for these issues to be ‘addressed’

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Every minute you talk is another minute I’m not listening to your dribble

Amazing what some shit polling can do. I didn’t know the person existed until today

ScuMo in drag, same delusions, same lies, maybe the Coalition is incapable of reading a scientific study

Thanks for stating the bleeding obvious Science Minister. And in case you haven’t noticed, the earth is round and not flat. smh karenandrewsmp abcnews

Well this is fucking news to me! Who is this person and why is the contradicting everything I've said and done?!

Yes total rubbish

lets back burn - lets not destroy our economy and lets have a sensible mixed energy policy

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Promising start by Karen Andrews (i.e. who?), but then immediately devolves into a fatalist LNP response of just adapting to climate change 'We need to focus on the steps to adapt and mitigate the impact of those changes.” What the hell is wrong with these morons in the LNP?

There goes another person unable to discriminate between climate reality and bushfires, choosing to link two mutually exclusive events together. Back to maths class 101 and then research methods and statistics 101.

Trigger warning

The phoney Science Minister says drop fossil fuels!! Ok!! Who's with me then

The Ministry circling the wagons around the Party’s denialist core to prioritise party cohesion over sanity. The Liberal Party is irredeemable.

We have wasted so long with inaction that the failure to act has now become the path to our extinction and the extinction of millions of other species. Humans are clearly not the superior species on the planet.

I’m still laughing over ‘co-ordinated arson attacks by the Australian Greens’ Hopefully no one has been so dumbed down that they think this bot view is real 😂 I’m not a greenie but know no greenie would cause such environmental damage killing 1.3bn animals and biodiversity there

aaah reshuffle on the cards..

For them to discuss the issue they would need to actually have a parliamentary sitting.....lucky for them they are STILL on holiday

Wow

She must have just returned from holidays

You're being conned... Peer-review is by no means perfect. It is itself subject to bias, as most things in research are. Evidence from a peer-reviewed article does not make it reliable, based only on that fact

When scientific manuscripts are submitted to a journal they have to undergo a peer review process so that the journal can decide whether or not they should publish the article. In recent years, many articles have been retracted from journals due to falsification of the reviewing.

Karen is ready to talk to the manager

I presume science minister directed her statement toward own party, not the general public. The public need no encouragement to convince them climate change is real! Perhaps the government could develop some actual climate change policies commensurate with the urgency at hand!

Should read “Scientology Minister”?

The Science Minister discovered ClimateChange and we discovered we had a Science Minister.

A shiny new Science Minister trotted out. Because LNP always get to the party late.

She is right lets get on with it. But continually linking the fires to Global Warming just undoes the progress as there are too many doubters about the fires and us old farmers still believe it's a fuel buildup colliding with a drought. Let's find a solution not continually blame

“Round table will include a panel of nuclear scientists, CSIRO executives, and Craig Kelly”

Nobody is saying the climate is not changing, they’re saying that Australian government policy will have no impact on the climate.

So years of data, advice from scientists and no change from the government, until now. What changed? Oh... opinion polls 🤔

The challenge - without resolving the debate we end up with resilience & adaptation as primary solutions. They are important yet wouldn't rank in top 10 solutions They are a diversion tactic by an incredibly inept government This is the first time we've heard from this minister!

Oh Her ! She's another raver and ranter during question time Have never heard her make a genuine argument to follow the science and implement climate policies Waited for a national fire catastrophe to make a stand If it is a stand ? I don't believe her

Doesn't she want friends in her party room? Someone forgot to tell her Malcolm left parliament and she's all alone holding this view as a LNP politician. To be honest, I didn't realise they had a science minister!

Science minister, you say?

With that interview on RNBreakfast it's evident that karenandrewsmp is every bit as vacuously verbose as ScottyFromMarketting The characteristic to verbally 'bulldoze' must be a Key Selection Criteria for any kid level executive of the LNP Corporation Ltd govt TomTilley

OMG since when did we have a Science Minister? I did not even know and I read the news every day. 🤷🏻‍♀️😂 Hilarious, what have they done so far? Another over-paid cardboard cut out poster. ClimateChange is real. Deal w it. Deal w it now or go. lipservice AustralianBushFireCrisis

Oh, look who wants to rewrite history before our very eyes.

I mean, I agree of course, but the most important question here is: We have a Science Minister? Can she please speak to, like, all of the ignorant dickheads in the LiberalAus? And One Nation? How about she just subscribe the MP email address book to some journals? auspol

Why isn't an intelligent and realistic person like this PM? He will take this country down.

The Denier is the PM undeservedly elected to lead the Country 🙂🖐

Yes let’s get on with taking money out of fossil fuels and put those billions in to renewable energy innovation, design and creation, creating a new economy and jobs for our children, not to mention a cleaner environment to bring our children up in. Agreed!

This is after her own government sat on a climate report for 18 months and did nothing with it. A bit hypocritical don’t you think minister?

Focussing solely on mitigation and adaptation is another form of denial. Reducing emissions has to be a fundamental part of the response.

Produce your irrevocable evidence?

The co-ordinated arson attacks by the Australian Greens has achieved its objective.

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