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Greg Hunt - Lol!!

i-need-a-martini — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:15:06 GMT

In an internationally broadcast interview with the BBC, when asked the question about the link between bushfires and climate, Hunt says Australia has always had bushfire and he knows they are not linked to climate change because "he looked it up on Wikepedia".

And then this:

In his heated BBC interview, Mr Hunt rejected a claim that Mr Abbott had labelled climate science as ''absolute **bleep**'' and asked interviewer Razia Iqbal not to be rude.

''In Parliament our Prime Minister has expressed clear support for the science,'' Mr Hunt said before Iqbal pressed him again.

''So [Mr Abbott] no longer thinks it's absolute **bleep**?''

''Look,'' he said ''with great respect… you can invite me from Australia to do this, you can be profoundly rude, I'm happy to answer but I'm not going to be sworn at.''

''Mr Hunt, I'm merely quoting your Prime Minister,'' Iqbal responded.

What a first class dodo. And the rest of the world must think we are a bunch of neanderthals.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/greg-hunt-taps-wikipedia-for-bushfire-backing-20131024-2w4e8.html#ixzz2ifk35RZg

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/greg-hunt-taps-wikipedia-for-bushfire-backing-20131024-2w4e8.html

Re: Greg Hunt - Lol!!

polksaladallie — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:41:27 GMT

I am so happy that we now have the cream of the crop looking after the country.

Re: Greg Hunt - Lol!!

twinkles**stars — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:52:55 GMT

swearing is not acceptable.

Re: Greg Hunt - Lol!!

polksaladallie — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:54:20 GMT

@twinkles**stars wrote:
swearing is not acceptable.

Huh?

Re: Greg Hunt - Lol!!

lakeland27 — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:56:13 GMT

of course it is (well apart from here) the interviewer used exactly the language tone did.

Re: Greg Hunt - Lol!!

twinkles**stars — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:56:24 GMT

you missed the bit where he complaimed about the swearing?

Re: Greg Hunt - Lol!!

twinkles**stars — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:57:35 GMT

so it depends on the tone used? no

Re: Greg Hunt - Lol!!

**meep** — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:58:22 GMT

In an internationally broadcast interview with the BBC, when asked the question about the link between bushfires and climate, Hunt says Australia has always had bushfire and he knows they are not linked to climate change because "he looked it up on Wikepedia".

LOL, he should haven known better and realised that it would be taken out of context, precisely like the above ^^^^

That was not what he said. What he meant was - he looked up wikipidia to see what common knowledge is available to the rest of the world (since we've had some strange statements released on this topic from various official sources)

If I may quote wikipidia here

Greg Hunt:

"Australia has since European settlement and obviously well before that, had a history of recurrent bushfires. I looked up what Wikipedia says, for example, just to see what the rest of the world thought, and it opens up with the fact that bushfires in Australia are frequently occurring events during the hotter months of the year. Large areas of land are ravaged every year by bushfires. That’s the Australian experience."

Re: Greg Hunt - Lol!!

i-need-a-martini — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:01:10 GMT

@twinkles**stars wrote:
you missed the bit where he complaimed about the swearing?

I think you missed the bit where she asked if he thought, like his fearless leader Abbott, that climate change was "c.r.a.p."?

She was specifically and intentionally referencing the word that Abbott used to describe climate change.

Re: Greg Hunt - Lol!!

lakeland27 — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:01:11 GMT

oh , its in wiki.. thats alright then. who wrote the wiki page ?

Re: Greg Hunt - Lol!!

debra9275 — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:03:09 GMT

Wikipedia does have it's uses

Re: Greg Hunt - Lol!!

**meep** — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:03:33 GMT

@lakeland27 wrote:
oh , its in wiki.. thats alright then. who wrote the wiki page ?

I dont know who contributed that particular part, the question is, is it correct?

If it is not, you have the ability to edit it

Re: Greg Hunt - Lol!!

polksaladallie — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:09:12 GMT

@twinkles**stars wrote:
so it depends on the tone used? no

Huh? Again

Re: Greg Hunt - Lol!!

lakeland27 — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:07:40 GMT

@**meep** wrote:
@lakeland27 wrote:
oh , its in wiki.. thats alright then. who wrote the wiki page ?
I dont know who contributed that particular part, the question is, is it correct?

If it is not, you have the ability to edit it

like the VCE student , the one who tried to update/edit the wiki israel/palestine page a few years ago. every morning waking up to find it changed back to the pro-israel version that was wrong. i'm sure siggies mates would be doing the same if i did.

Re: Greg Hunt - Lol!!

**meep** — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:14:21 GMT

@lakeland27 wrote:
@**meep** wrote:
@lakeland27 wrote:
oh , its in wiki.. thats alright then. who wrote the wiki page ?
I dont know who contributed that particular part, the question is, is it correct?

If it is not, you have the ability to edit it

like the VCE student , the one who tried to update/edit the wiki israel/palestine page a few years ago. every morning waking up to find it changed back to the pro-israel version that was wrong. i'm sure siggies mates would be doing the same if i did.

I don't know anything about that. Regardless, all entries include citations, so the question still stands - is the information correct?

Re: Greg Hunt - Lol!!

lakeland27 — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:19:02 GMT

no. hunt himself knows better . his masters thesis was on the topic of carbon trading, a glowing endorsement of the idea in fact. now that its inconvenient politically, he resorts to wiki ? The real pity about hunt is that he has allowed himself to be 'dumbed down' to fit into the Abbott cabinet.

Re: Greg Hunt - Lol!!

**meep** — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:20:13 GMT

@debra9275 wrote:
Wikipedia does have it's uses

Exactly!! That was why Greg Hunt wanted to see what on earth the rest of the world are reading about Bushfires in Australia

Re: Greg Hunt - Lol!!

i-need-a-martini — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:20:52 GMT

Meep - that sentence was made after the interviewer asked him to respond to Figueres comments about the bushfires and Abbotts response to her. Does that mean he was implying that Figueres was indeed talking "out of her hat" because he could prove what the "rest of the world thought" cause he saw what they thought on Wikipedia?

Not that it makes any reference to Wikipedia acceptable. And not that he even got that right. Wikipedias listing for bushfire/climate link clearly says our fires are increasing and show alarming stats for fire prone days into the future. He obviously didn't even read past the first line which said "Bushfires in Australia are frequently occurring events during the hotter months of the year" as this is what he indirectly quoted in his interview.

The rest of his comments in the interview were equally idiotic. For example when he was asked if he accepted that there is potentially relationship between rising temperatures and bushfires, he said “Well by definition, bushfires happen in hot weather.” Surely as our govt rep on this issue he could have been less schoolboyish? By responding like that he just looks stupid. Oh Duh! When it's hot, if I throw my cigarette out the window I will start a bushfire. Is that REALLY the reason we have had an increase in bushfire over the last 30 years? Is that REALLY the reason they are predicting catastrophic fires for our future?

And then he claims the issue has only been raised in Australia because of the Greens (seriously??!) and says :“The way in which this was done in Australia was to blame the newly elected government for fires such as this. Even though we’re living under a carbon tax in Australia. You’d imagine then that the logic would be that that would mean there wouldn’t be bushfires,”

That last sentence leaves me speechless as it almost did the interviewer.

Re: Greg Hunt - Lol!!

i-need-a-martini — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:22:29 GMT

And lol even more!

Someone has just updated his wiki page to read: “After the 2013 election, Hunt was appointed environment minister under prime minister Tony Abbott. He was quoted as saying he uses Wikipedia for important policy research.[4]”

Re: Greg Hunt - Lol!!

debra9275 — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:23:56 GMT

@**meep** wrote:
@debra9275 wrote:
Wikipedia does have it's uses
Exactly!! That was why Greg Hunt wanted to see what on earth the rest of the world are reading about Bushfires in Australia

LOL