garnaut wrote "projections suggest that fire seasons will start earlier and end slightly later," as "and generally be more intense." governments of all political colours were warned that the scale of this problem was going to increase. and arguably, for a lot of australians, they don't seem to have prepared adequately for that. you're right, those predictions have been around well since the ‘60s and ‘70s. the garnaut report did make that observation, the ipcc of the un makes those sorts of observations as well, so that has fed into the thinking around preparedness and actions around bushfire season for australia, so it's not to say australia hasn't done anything. as i say, but for the extraordinary efforts of an extraordinary number of people, volunteers, firefighters, australian defence personnel, communities, the devastation would have been much, much worse. you're a former diplomat and you've been quite diplomatic about what you said so far, which is perfectly understandable, but the man that appointed you to yourjob as australian ambassador for the environment, malcolm turnbull,

you're right, those predictions have been around since the ‘60s and ‘70s and the garnaut report mades and the ipcc of the un makes those sorts of observations as well, so that has fed into the thinking around preparedness and actions around bushfire seasons for australia, so it's not to say australia hasn't done anything. as i say, but for the extraordinary efforts of an extraordinary number of people, volunteers, firefighters, australian defence personnel, communities, the devastation would have been much, much worse. you're a former diplomat and you've been quite diplomatic about what you said so far, which is perfectly understandable, but the man that appointed you to yourjob as australian ambassador for the environment, malcolm turnbull, who was mr morrison's predecessor as prime minister, has been rather more blunt. he said rather than doing what a leader should do, scott morrison downplayed the influence and the threat of climate change, nonsense from a scientific point of view, so that has misled people. do you share that criticism? i think you've heard the prime minister hims