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Can't compare: emissions trading and reforms from the past
It's now an accepted part of political folklore: the era of reform is over. Our boldness has gone. No longer are we able to push through major...
Pursuit of climate change treaty is a waste of energy
Climate change negotiations should be put on ice. This morning Australian time, the sun will set on the UN climate change negotiations in Cancun,...
Retreat now, before the cost soars
Prime Minister Julia Gillard is strongly promoting a carbon tax to combat what she calls an "externality warming the planet". The government's army...
Sequel to Copenhagen Resembles the Remake of a Bad Movie
One year after the Copenhagen climate change circus, the Gillard government is being dragged by the Greens towards policies that are out of step...
In response to Graham Readfearn
It was very kind of Graham Readfearn to out me as one of a small group of ideologues who have frustrated climate change policy in Australia -...
Inconvenient Nonsense Infiltrates the Classroom
In 2006, former US vice-president Al Gore made a movie and companion book about global warming called An Inconvenient Truth. Gore undertook many...
Politics binds US over climate
As Hillary Clinton acknowledged in Melbourne this week, the Obama administration has abandoned its landmark legislation to combat man-made global...
DCC briefing: a farrago of spin, obfuscation and exaggeration
Flush from its near death experience following the hung parliament, the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency (DCC) has published its...
Putting a price on climate change policy
The Government has initiated a new saga in addressing greenhouse gases policy options. It has set up a parliamentary committee with membership...
Carbon price makes no policy sense
Gillard will need a big policy win this term. Even better if it's a win on the policy that sank her predecessor. So it was hardly surprising that...