{"id":402984,"date":"2025-09-18T08:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=402984"},"modified":"2025-09-18T08:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:52:09","slug":"backlash-against-aussie-22-9m-climate-doomsday-report-complete-waste-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=402984","title":{"rendered":"Backlash against Aussie $22.9m Climate Doomsday Report: \u201cComplete Waste of Money\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"461\" width=\"723\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/0climate-change-is-killing-us-un-sounds-health-alarm-1024x653.webp?resize=723%2C461&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A dramatic split landscape depicting a tornado on one side and a fiery sunset over a barren land on the other, with a cracked road leading into the scene.\" class=\"wp-image-349450\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2025\/09\/16\/backlash-against-aussie-22-9m-climate-doomsday-report-complete-waste-of-money\/\">Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Essay by\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/author\/eworrall1\/\">Eric Worrall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-gif aligncenter\">\n\t\t<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-gif-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:74%\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<iframe src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/l0HFkA6omUyjVYqw8\" title=\"throw the money out the window\"><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2026 even the authors say that you can\u2019t use it to determine our emission targets \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u2018Complete abuse of taxpayer money\u2019: Mammoth price tag of Labor\u2019s controversial climate change report blasted<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><br><\/strong>The eight-figure pricetag of Labor\u2019s controversial National Climate Risk Assessment makes it a \u201ccomplete abuse of taxpayer money\u201d, according to Nationals Senator Matt Canavan.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/the-team\/matt-hampson\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/the-team\/matt-hampson\">Matt Hampson<\/a>&nbsp;Digital Reporter<\/strong><br>September 16, 2025 \u2013 7:50PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The price tag of Labor\u2019s National Climate Risk Assessment has been called a \u201ccomplete abuse of taxpayer money\u201d, as the Daily Telegraph reveals the Australian public has forked out just short of $23 million for the controversial document.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senator Matt Canavan told SkyNews.com.au the report\u2019s cost shows it is a \u201ccomplete abuse of taxpayer money\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis report is a complete waste because&nbsp;<strong>even the authors say that you can\u2019t use it to determine our emission targets,\u201d Mr Canavan said<\/strong>&nbsp;on Tuesday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe government has spent millions of taxpayer dollars on a scare campaign meant to justify the decisions they have already taken. It is a complete abuse of taxpayer money.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Institute of Public Affairs research fellow Saxon Davidson joined the condemnation of the hefty figure spent on the forecast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cThe cost for this blatant piece of net zero propaganda is a disgrace,\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;Mr Davidson told SkyNews.com.au on Tuesday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026Read more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/australia-news\/complete-abuse-of-taxpayer-money-mammoth-price-tag-of-labors-controversial-climate-change-report-blasted\/news-story\/92b7b67e419e3abf30d4b3c7eeb678d8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/australia-news\/complete-abuse-of-taxpayer-money-mammoth-price-tag-of-labors-controversial-climate-change-report-blasted\/news-story\/92b7b67e419e3abf30d4b3c7eeb678d8<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report cost $22.9 million for 284 pages, or just over $80,600 \/ page. Nice work if you can get it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we pointed out in our previous article on this report, the Aussie government isn\u2019t even following its own climate advice, which shows how little the people who commissioned the report value its contents. They approved the expansion of a major fossil fuel project a few days before the report was published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-watts-up-with-that wp-block-embed-watts-up-with-that\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"TgYvN0hfN0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2025\/09\/15\/aussie-government-publishes-climate-apocalypse-report-and-approves-a-gas-lease-extension-in-the-same-week\/\">Aussie Government Publishes Climate Apocalypse  Report And Approves a Gas Lease Extension in the Same Week<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Aussie Government Publishes Climate Apocalypse  Report And Approves a Gas Lease Extension in the Same Week&#8221; &#8212; Watts Up With That?\" src=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2025\/09\/15\/aussie-government-publishes-climate-apocalypse-report-and-approves-a-gas-lease-extension-in-the-same-week\/embed\/#?secret=mxl9wdxhTm#?secret=TgYvN0hfN0\" data-secret=\"TgYvN0hfN0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That disclaimer clause Senator Matt Canavan mentioned \u2013 as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2025\/09\/15\/aussie-government-publishes-climate-apocalypse-report-and-approves-a-gas-lease-extension-in-the-same-week\/#comment-4111598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mike pointed out in our previous article on this report<\/a>, the authors of the report don\u2019t in any way guarantee the contents of the report, nor do they recommend it be used as the basis of policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DISCLAIMER<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Australian Government acting through the Australian Climate Service, a partnership between the Bureau of Meteorology, CSIRO, Australian Bureau of Statistics and Geoscience Australia, has exercised due care and skill in preparing and compiling the information and data in this publication. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notwithstanding, the Australian Climate Service, its partners, employees and advisers disclaim all liability, including liability for negligence and for any loss, damage, injury, expense or cost incurred by any person as a result of accessing, using or relying on any of the information or data in this publication to the maximum extent permitted by law.It does not represent a statement of the policy of the Australian Government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This report does not constitute personal financial, legal or other professional advice. Users should obtain any appropriate independent professional advice relevant to their particular circumstanceRead more: Page 273 of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/climateservice.maps.arcgis.com\/sharing\/rest\/content\/items\/9d4850b2d64d47e28407c04681b0eeca\/data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Australia\u2019s National Climate Risk Assessment<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other words, if anyone is foolish enough to follow the advice given in the report, and following the advice blows up their business or the Australian economy, the authors of the report take no responsibility or liability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the business world this kind of disclaimer on such an expensive report would be completely unacceptable. The last time I received an expensive report was a cybersecurity report which cost around $8000 \/ page, a tenth of the cost of this climate report. Much of that $8000 was spent on insurance for the authors, professional indemnity against the possibility the advice in the report was incorrect or that they had missed something important. That expensive cybersecurity report did not contain a disclaimer against using the advice in the report, it was honest advice about what should be done to improve the software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Do climate scientists and government bureaus not have enough confidence to expose themselves to any kind of personal or institutional risk arising from the climate advice they provide?<\/strong>&nbsp;Why would anyone take a report with such a disclaimer seriously?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026 even the authors say that you can\u2019t use it to determine our emission targets \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"Labor's $22.9M climate change report faces backlash as critics label it a waste of taxpayer money with no clear emission targets.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"Labor's $23M Climate Report: Taxpayer Money or Waste?","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818216,691838093,691820126,691838091,691818154,691825043],"class_list":["post-402984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-australia","tag-chris-bowen-climate-change-and-energy-minister","tag-labor","tag-national-climate-risk-assessment","tag-net-zero","tag-taxpayer-money","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1GPK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":291046,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=291046","url_meta":{"origin":402984,"position":0},"title":"The Full Bjorn Lomborg Interview on Climate Change, Poverty, and How Governments WASTE Your Money","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"12\/12\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Governments spends trillions to fight climate change, but Lomborg says many of these policies are \u201cnot an efficient way of spending.\u201d","rel":"","context":"In \"Bjorn Lomborg\"","block_context":{"text":"Bjorn Lomborg","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=bjorn-lomborg"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/0Screenshot-2023-12-12-181348.png?fit=973%2C564&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/0Screenshot-2023-12-12-181348.png?fit=973%2C564&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/0Screenshot-2023-12-12-181348.png?fit=973%2C564&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/0Screenshot-2023-12-12-181348.png?fit=973%2C564&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":291404,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=291404","url_meta":{"origin":402984,"position":1},"title":"Bjorn Lomborg: Climate Change, Poverty, and How Governments WASTE Your Money","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"15\/12\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg says we waste money in the fight against climate change.","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate change\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-change"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/0Screenshot-2023-12-15-132834.png?fit=992%2C567&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/0Screenshot-2023-12-15-132834.png?fit=992%2C567&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/0Screenshot-2023-12-15-132834.png?fit=992%2C567&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/0Screenshot-2023-12-15-132834.png?fit=992%2C567&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":204643,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=204643","url_meta":{"origin":402984,"position":2},"title":"Show us the money! 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