Government backs down on funding for climate denialist

October 22, 2015
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Climate sceptic Bjorn Lomborg.

The federal government has withdrawn an offer to provide $4 million to any Australian university willing to host climate sceptic Bjorn Lomborg and his “Consensus Centre”.

Staff at Flinders University in Adelaide, where management had been considering the proposal, welcomed the news.

National Tertiary Education Union Flinders University branch president Ron Slee said, “Today's decision is a welcome relief for a university community that has been relentless in its campaign to protect against the reputational damage that would inevitably travel with the Lomborg money.”

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