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Quote: "The IPCC] It is actually run by a very small group of about six to eight leading members of the IPCC who all agree that scaring people about climate change is very good for their careers." Stewart Franks, 2009, talking to a Parliamentary Committee on Climate Policy in Australia.[1]
Stewart William Franks is an Associate Professor of Engineering at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. He is a global warming sceptic who regularly appears on television and radio to put the sceptics' and denialists' case. Franks is a hydrologist, not a climatologist, although he likes to style himself as a "hydro-climatologist" because, as he himself says, "nobody knows what that is".[2]
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Conflict of interest
Despite repeatedly denying any funding from polluting industries, in fact he received AU $85,000 in 2006 from Macquarie Generation, a state-owned corporporation with a core business producing and wholesale selling electricity on the National Electricity Market in Australia. This corporation operates two of the largest coal-powered stations in New South Wales (consuming a combined total of 13 million tonnes of greenhouse gas producing coal per annum) and is part of the national energy industry.
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References
- ↑ SELECT COMMITTEE ON CLIMATE POLICY - 15/04/2009 - Emissions trading and reducing carbon pollution. Australian Government (2009). Retrieved on 2011-04-09.
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm826GwqFBY
