Tony Abbot has embarked on a campaign of confrontation and confusion to blunt the need for action on climate change and the most appropriate response in a market economy, a carbon price. He has by his actions and rhetoric raised the level of opposition to 'Tea Party' proportions and his call for a plebiscite is a call to deny the Government the right and responsibility to act and be judged at an election, an election fought no doubt on the impact of the carbon price and the tax incentives to be carbon sensitive.
The Conversation website is worth a read and indicates an increasing prepardness to respond to the propaganda peddled by the sceptics and deniers.
June 13, 2011
Today, The Conversation launches a two-week series from the nation’s top minds on the science behind climate change and the efforts of “sceptics” to cloud the debate.
The overwhelming scientific evidence tells us that human greenhouse gas emissions are resulting in climate changes that cannot be explained by natural causes.
Climate change is real, we are causing it, and it is happening right now.
Like it or not, humanity is facing a problem that is unparalleled in its scale and complexity. The magnitude of the problem was given a chilling focus in the most recent report of the International Energy Agency, which their chief economist characterised as the “worst news on emissions.” Limiting global warming to 2°C is now beginning to look like a nearly insurmountable challenge.
Like all great challenges, climate change has brought out the best and the worst in people.
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