Malcolm Turnbull in Denial on Climate change: The Uses and Abuses of Complex Causation

It is commonplace for political and corporate leaders to obfuscate public debate on issues they want to avoid by applying simplistic, linear concepts of cause and effect to events that have multiple causes. In the case of climate change, one wonders how long the media and the public are going to let leaders like Malcolm Turnbull and others get away with this blatant piece of cynical misdirection.

In response to the most recent, devastating bushfires in NSW, Malcolm Turnbull, in the tradition of so many climate change deniers before him, has dragged out the tired assertion that one can’t attribute any particular extreme weather event to climate change...