From your own link.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24216988
"We're in the middle of a titanic struggle... I think the fight for a clean and safe environmental future is reaching its peak," he said.
Supporters of the rebranded Climate Council say it will provide impartial and fearless advice about impending threats to Australia from more bushfires, droughts and rising sea levels, the BBC's Phil Mercer in Sydney reports.
They were disbanded by the new
conservative Prime Minister Abbott after he came to power.
As a side note, that would also be the same commission that PayPal has blocked from recieving donations.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023730751
PayPal blocks payments to Australia's Climate Commission.
Until the election of Australia's new conservative government, we had a government-funded Climate Commission in place, set up by the Labor government to report to the people on the latest developments in thinking on global warming and climate change.
One of new PM Tony Abbott's first acts was to sack the Commissioners and cease funding the Commission. So its head, scientist Dr.Tim Flannery and the former Commissioners got together and formed a new body, the Climate Council, to be funded by public donations, in order that the Australian people could continue to be informed of the latest developments in the scientific community regarding climate change.
In its first few days, the Climate Council received $500,000 in donations and counting. But today, PayPal decided that it would no longer process payments to the Council. They can't claim that the Council is in any way illegal, so what's their problem? Are they caving in to political pressure, or do they themselves think that global warming is a fantasy? They're not saying.
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