The Bureau of Meteorology: Chaos at the forecaster
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Climate Change and the Bureau of Meteorology
There are no meteorologists in the executive. The CEO is an agricultural scientist and his right hand man, Peter Stone, who also came over from the CSIRO, neither of them are meteorologists. There's been this kind of demotion, I guess, of expertise in meteorology and climate science. They used to have a chief climatologist at the bottom and that role doesn't exist anymore. And Peter Stone, I'm told, has carriage of that area despite not being a climatologist or even a meteorologist himself. In addition to that, these gag orders have been issued to prevent the forecast is from speaking to journalists unless the comments are pre approved.
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