'Big call': Agriculture Minister Denies to Link Drought to Climate Change on Q&A

Agriculture Minister says linking the drought that affects much of Australia to climate change caused by man is a “big call” and he does not “give a rat if it is done by the man or not “.
David Littleproud commented on the ABC’s Q & A program on Monday, which was filmed in Lismore in the northern river region of New South Wales . His comment was booed by the public.
The northern river region, like most of New South Wales, southern Queensland, southern Australia, southern Western Australia and part of Victoria, has been affected by a severe Drought.
Some regions of Western NSW lived their driest 16 months recorded, according to the Bureau of Meteorology, and Australia as a whole experienced its driest July since 2002.
National Farmers Federation president Fiona Simpson pointed to a 45 per cent reduction in red meat industry emissions between 2005 and 2015 and said Australia needed to understand the effects of climate change to continue as a world leader in this area.
“The impacts of climate change will mean that (drought and rain) events could be more extreme but they could be more frequent,” she said.
“We certainly need to understand that, how that’s going to affect us and how we can marry that changing circumstance with all that we’re doing in the rest of the country and the rest of the world with climate change.”
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