> Aren’t there almost certainly other factors involved? Acknowledging that climate change is one factor among several doesn’t seem to me outrageous. When worki

> Aren’t there almost certainly other factors involved? Acknowledging that climate change is one factor among several doesn’t seem to me outrageous. When working on a purely scientific level one should also allow to check assumptions. Otherwise science would degrade into mysticism. At the same time it is in the nature of science to take previous results into account, especially if those have been peer-reviewed and find a wide range of consensus, so more effort can be put into research that is based on that. On the other hand Scott Morrison is a politician and not a scientist so he has an obligation to base his decisions on public will and take research results into account. He should not do research as a Prime Minister. A lot of modern research is based on probabilities, in the world of politics this translates to risks. In the startup world people are somehow obliged to take high risks, on the other hand governments must keep risks low.