Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's top business advisor on Friday claimed climate change was a ruse encouraged by the United Nations to create a new authoritarian world order under its control.

 

Maurice Newman, chairman of the Prime Minister's Business Advisory Council, said the real agenda was "concentrated political authority. Global warming is the hook".

 

In a column for The Australian newspaper to coincide with a visit by UN climate chief Christiana Figueres, he added that the world had been "subjected to extravagance from climate catastrophists for close to 50 years".

 

"It's a well-kept secret, but 95 percent of the climate models we are told prove the link between human CO2 emissions and catastrophic global warming have been found, after nearly two decades of temperature stasis, to be in error," he said, without providing evidence.

 

Newman, a former chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, is a known climate change skeptic but he went further by accusing the UN of being involved in a scam.

 

With its use of coal-fired power and relatively small population, Australia is one of the world's worst per capita greenhouse gas polluters and has been increasingly isolated over its perceived reluctance to do more to tackle the climate threat.

 

Newman said "hopefully, like India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Tony Abbott isn't listening (to the UN)".

 

But he warned that "having gained so much ground, eco-catastrophists won't let up".

 

 

PHOTO: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's top business advisor has claimed climate change is a ruse encouraged by the United Nations to create a new authoritarian world order under its control.

CREDIT: AFP Photo/Patrik Stollarz.