Penbo said on Monday:<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe in climate change\u2026 I believe we should listen to the people who are paid to conduct impartial scientific research into climate change\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cBut having said that, when the entire state of NSW is on catastrophic bushfire alert is probably not the time to start going through the look-at-me grandstanding that we saw from the Greens leader Adam Bandt and others where you\u2019re using this as a point scoring exercise to run your well established climate change arguments.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s absolutely no issue with having a discussion about does climate change fuel the threat of bushfires, but when you\u2019re down to the brass tacks of the logistics, of dealing with an actual fire that is heading towards your house, and do I stay or do I go\u2026 when it\u2019s down to that absolute survival level there\u2019s something pretty lame I reckon about some inner city Greens trendy in his Melbourne loft with the air conditioner on hitting social media to go, oh well, there\u2019s going to more of this\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re talking about saving lives and properties and logistics. This isn\u2019t Q&A. This is a real time account of an event that is threating to kill people. We can have the symposium on the long-term fate of the planet at a later date\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the best you can do to help is a tweet peddling your smug credentials about climate change you\u2019re not really much help at all are you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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