WATCH: Greg Hunt Fumbles On The Deets Of Our UN Climate Paper Omission

Scientists basically called that omission a travesty. It’s a bit naff financially too, considering the rapidly rising oceans (heh… sigh) of evidence supporting the hypothesis that higher temps = sicker reefs = fewer of those sweet tourism dollars.

With that in mind, it was always likely Environment Minister Greg Hunt’s appearance on The Project tonight would be rough on the “world’s best minister.” In reality, the entire five minute segment was nothin’ but incisive prodding on his department’s handling of the issue. 

Especially how he, the head honcho, apparently wasn’t briefed on the omission. At all.

Explaining how Australia was rubbed from the draft report, Hunt said said “there was something in the report that was at odds with the… view of the highest body in the world, and the net result was the United Nations made its own decision to re-align with the over-arching view of its own global umpire.”

However, Waleed Aly raised the point his own department had a different story. They, of course, said they asked for the material to be removed due to its assumed affect on tourism. Straight out. That’s it. 

What follows is worrying, at best: a tacit admission that yeah, his staff decided to act on this pretty bloody big matter without oversight from the guy in charge. 

And somehow, he’s cool with the unadvised nuking of deets pertaining to his raison d’être:

Baffling stuff. Baffling, worrying stuff. 

Source: The Project / Facebook. 
Photo: The Project / Facebook.