Abbott absurdities on climate change
There has been a constant stream of lies and misinformation over recent months on the impacts of carbon pricing. Here’s an example from early May of Abbott claiming that the carbon tax will make it hard for Australia to remain [...]
2006 called…
…and wants its climate change policy back. Rather than actually doing taking an emissions trading scheme policy to an election, we’re getting a “Citizens’ Assembly – to examine over 12 months the evidence on climate change, the case for action [...]
Simple climate action plan anyone?
This guest post is by John Davidson. John is a semi-retired chemical engineer who has spent most of his life in the construction and mining industries. John has now set up his own blog. Tony Abbot has opened up the [...]
Crash through or crash? What Turnbull should do now…
In the wake of today’s extraordinary events in the Coalition party room, Malcolm Turnbull could put to good use the very qualities he’s usually been panned by his right wing colleagues and the commentariat for having – displaying some courage [...]
Penny Wong the climate science sceptic
Dr Richard Denniss from The Australia Institute writing in today’s Crikey [reproduced with permission]: Like most parliamentarians, Penny Wong, the Minister for Climate Change, is a climate sceptic. Of course she prefers to use that term to describe those who [...]
Green on The Greens and Higgins
ABC election analyst Antony Green has a very interesting and comprehensive post up on the Higgins (and Bradfield) by-elections. Among his observations: Safe Liberal seats in Melbourne have never been as safe as the safest Liberal seats in Sydney. In [...]
Denniss: The CPRS is pointless. It's Copenhagen that counts.
Dr Richard Denniss from The Australia Institute writing in today’s Crikey [reproduced with permission]: The Senate debate about the CPRS is getting close, and with views as diverse as those of Steve Fielding and Bob Brown it’s likely to be [...]
Turnbull one year on; Emo Man's revenge
Malcolm Turnbull has been opposition leader for one year. That anniversary has been marked, among other things, by an impassioned speech in the Coalition party room by his predecessor, Dr Brendan Nelson. Nelson argued against any compromise on emissions trading [...]
Markets as a solution to climate change: Epic Fail
If anything ends up completely discrediting the worship of markets, it will probably turn out to be the vacuous and endlessly deferred nature of quasi-market “solutions” to climate change, which have little support even among those who are ideologically predisposed [...]
What price offsets?
One of the concerns about the CPRS is that it will primarily be an exercise in locking up foreign rainforests rather than deploying clean technologies within Australia. This not only delays the development of the clean energy technologies required on [...]
Guest post: ETS is the problem, not the answer
In this guest post, John Davidson suggests that there may be more practical and effective ways of reducing net carbon pollution than an ETS. John is a semi-retired chemical engineer who has spent most of his life in the construction [...]
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