Bjorn again

Well they may have lost out on their fair share of the GST, but my friends at the University of Western Australia (UWA) are A$4 million better off thanks to a one-off Federal government grant by the Minister for Education Christoper 'the fixer' Pyne. The grant is to establish a new 'Australia Consensus Centre' at UWA. The consensus among most of my peers is that this was a bad idea. Why? Well first off, the new Centre is a partnership between the Copenhagen Consensus Center and the University of Western Australia. It thus features the Danish academic Bjorn Lomborg, author of the controversial books The Sceptical Environmentalist and Cool It, both of which argue that climate change is not our biggest problem and that we should relax about it (or in Bjorn's terms, 'cool it').