Global warming ‘a UN hoax’

Climate change is a hoax led by the United Nations so that it can end democracy and impose authoritarian rule, according to Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s chief business adviser.

Maurice Newman, the chairman of the prime minister’s business advisory council, has written in The Australian that scientific modelling showing the link between humans and climate change is wrong; the real agenda is a world takeover for the UN.

The column has been written to coincide with an Australian visit by the head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Christiana Figueres.

It follows a piece Newman wrote last year in which he said governments had been hijacked by ‘‘green gesture politics’’.

‘‘It’s a well-kept secret, but 95 per cent of the climate models we are told prove the link between human CO emissions and catastrophic global warming have been found, after nearly two decades of temperature stasis, to be in error. It’s not surprising,’’ Newman wrote yesterday.

‘‘Why then, with such little evidence, does the UN insist the world spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year on futile climate change policies? Perhaps Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN’s Framework on Climate Change has the answer?’’

Newman continued that global warming was a ‘‘hook’’ to install a new world order.

‘‘Figueres is on record saying democracy is a poor political system for fighting global warming. Communist China, she says, is the best model. This is not about facts or logic. It’s about a new world order under the control of the UN.’’

Newman then urges the Abbott government to oppose a regime that was against ‘‘capitalism and freedom’’ by resisting the next global climate treaty in Paris, which countries hope to reach in December.

Newman adds that, like Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Abbott should resist the United Nations calls for coal to stay in the ground.

The Academy of Science and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change say greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are affecting the climate.

Figueres said during her visit this week that Australia would ultimately have to move away from coal for both environmental and economic reasons.

Newman is a former chairman of the ABC and the Australian Securities Exchange.

Newman’s other thoughts on climate change include:

‘‘Man-made ‘carbon pollution’ has become the shorthand rallying cry that unites global warming believers. The notion is a figment. It is made up. It is rooted in anti-capitalist, anti-growth green ideology that, for too long, has been bullied into our consciousness as science.’’

‘‘Back in the real world, the poor are dying of the cold while the political elites and their friends bask in the warmth of cosy conferences, taxpayer subsidies and research grants. They seem indifferent to the hardship that their actions, based on dubious science, impose on the world’s underprivileged.’’

‘‘The political Left has seized on climate change as the new Marxism. It rejects empirical evidence which is inconvenient and promotes dubious and sometimes fabricated science as proven. In true totalitarian style it seeks to shut down debate and ruin the careers and reputations of those who dare to oppose the orthodoxy.’’