A business adviser to Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has accused the United Nations of using the issue of climate change in order to establish a new authoritarian order in the world.
In an opinion piece published in a local newspaper, Maurice Newman, the head of Abbott's business advisory council, said the UN has an ulterior motive in using erroneous models that portray sustained increase in global temperatures.
"The real agenda is concentrated political authority," Newman wrote. "Global warming is the hook."
Newman argued that 95 percent of the climate models that the UN has presented, regarding the connection between carbon emissions and global warming, are wrong. The discovery, he explained, was made after almost 20 years of temperature stasis.
"We have been subjected to extravagance from climate catastrophists for close to 50 years," the business adviser said.
Newman added that the UN opposes freedom and capitalism, and that the organization has used the issue of environmental disasters as a "household topic" to further its goal of creating a new world order.
The release of Newman's inflammatory statements coincided with the visit of one of the UN's leading climate negotiators, Christiana Figueres.
When asked about Newman's comments during a recent interview, Figueres said that it was merely an attempt at humor on the business adviser's part. She said that she did not take the accusations seriously as they were not based on reality or facts.
"We live in a world of free press and free opinion and, you know, if that's the humor in Australia then that's the humor in Australia," Figueres said. "I have my own sense of humor. It's quite fine."
Figueres toured Australia for the purpose of convincing people to move away from the use of coal. During her visit to Canberra, the UN climate negotiator urged Australians to invest and use renewable materials instead.
Members of the opposition in Australia have also aired their disappointment regarding Newman's accusations and called on the prime minister to disavow the comments of his business adviser.
"Mr Abbott has an obligation to tell Australians if he shares these views, and what impact these views have on his policies," Labor MP Bill Shorten said. "There are many views on climate change but none are more extreme than these, and I fundamentally disagree with them."
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