A comment on RACI's open letter

摘要

It is pleasing to see the RACI lifting its head above the parapet to challenge some of the nonsense of the federal budget, and in general terms I agree with what has been said in the open letter to the Prime Minister and the Treasurer (see p. 4). However, it is deeply disappointing that the letter makes no attempt at all to correct the budget's (and more generally the government's) irresponsible attempts to trivialise anthropogenic global warming. Just as chemistry is an enabling science for medical research, so too does it inform most aspects of climate change research - a subject in which spectroscopy.