Hunt defused Abbottalypse BOM

From The Australian:

Environment Minister Greg Hunt has claimed responsibility for having “killed off” the Abbott government’s proposed investigation into the Bureau of Meteorology’s climate modelling, as he also stepped back from plans to erode green activists’ legal standing to challenge major projects.

I know a few folks at the BOM and can say that place is filled with inoffensive scientists in cardigans that have virtually no political bones in their bodies. This would have been a disaster for Abbott, oh that’s right, he’s already blown himself up elsewhere.

As for Hunt, pfft.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.