‘Less Groupthink’: Former Australian PM Joins Global Warming Foundation to Spur Debate

Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott addresses the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on July 18, 2014. Mark Nolan/Getty Images

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has joined a UK climate think tank to inject a “note of realism into the climate debate.”

The London-based Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), founded in 2009 by former UK conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson, says it aims to have a less “hysterical” and “emotional” debate on the subject.