Bureau of Meteorology rejects Maurice Newman's climate claims

By Lisa Cox
Updated May 25 2015 - 9:09pm, first published 5:05pm
Maurice Newman has come under fire after he wrote in The Australian that scientific modelling showing the link between humans and climate change was wrong. Photo: Jim Rice
Maurice Newman has come under fire after he wrote in The Australian that scientific modelling showing the link between humans and climate change was wrong. Photo: Jim Rice
Maurice Newman has come under fire after he wrote in The Australian that scientific modelling showing the link between humans and climate change was wrong. Photo: Jim Rice
Maurice Newman has come under fire after he wrote in The Australian that scientific modelling showing the link between humans and climate change was wrong. Photo: Jim Rice
Maurice Newman has come under fire after he wrote in The Australian that scientific modelling showing the link between humans and climate change was wrong. Photo: Jim Rice
Maurice Newman has come under fire after he wrote in The Australian that scientific modelling showing the link between humans and climate change was wrong. Photo: Jim Rice
Maurice Newman has come under fire after he wrote in The Australian that scientific modelling showing the link between humans and climate change was wrong. Photo: Jim Rice
Maurice Newman has come under fire after he wrote in The Australian that scientific modelling showing the link between humans and climate change was wrong. Photo: Jim Rice

Claims by the Prime Minister's chief business adviser about climate change have been rejected by the head of the Bureau of Meteorology as "incorrect", irrelevant and "old red herrings".

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