3D Chess

No, not this game. Over at The Tally Room, Ben Raue has a great summary of the ETS/CPRS positions of all the major players in Australian politics, including data on the Australian public from the latest Essential Research survey. Take a look.

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Do something

GetUp! has made an ad about Labor’s emissions targets:

Fundraising here to air it during the Boxing Day test.
Stage 2 of the campaign should be getting all Australians to throw their shoes at the TV when it airs.
Elsewhere, Guido suggests it was silly not to expect that Labor would shaft the environment [...]

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Unchanged

Nice work, Tim Norton:

Greens rallies in the capital cities tomorrow.

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Unimpressed

Being prepared doesn’t make me any less disappointed and outraged by this. I cannot believe that Kevin said this with a straight face:
“Climate change is an inconvenient truth and a truth that we can no longer conveniently ignore,” Mr Rudd said at the National Press Club.
“No responsible leadership anywhere in the world can ignore the [...]

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Prepare to be unimpressed

The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme White Paper will be released tomorrow, and the cynicism is palpable. Michelle Grattan discusses the political tensions pointing the Rudd Government toward a low target for 2020 emissions reductions. Peter Wood has a cartoon that illustrates the problem with that “sensible centrist” approach. And Robert Merkel notes a pre-announcement that [...]

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Relativity

Terry McCrann thinks going ahead with the ETS is bad in the current economic climate:
The ETS is a tax and a tax specifically on energy. If increased taxation is what we need now, why then did the Prime Minister actually hand out $10 billion last week?

It seems to me that the impact of the ETS [...]

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Good on Kevin

I guess Andrew really doesn’t want our PM to be anything more than a “me too” man. How dare he display principles and a commitment to doing what is right – doesn’t he know that he is supposed to follow the lead of the European business lobby?

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Coalition unanimously agrees that climate change policy exists

Now that the Opposition have gathered and banged their heads together, can they start to make sense? Let’s ask Brendan:
“Australia in implementing an emissions trading scheme can only do so when it’s ready to be implemented,” he said.

And, as a corollary, you cannot implement it if it is not ready to be implemented. Logical, eh?
So, [...]

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I’ll put my hand up

Tim Watts asks:
Does Brendan Nelson have a shred of credibility left?
 

No.

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So colourful

Ms Overington:
There was a rumour that Cate Blanchett was going to narrate the ads, but since when is Ms Blanchett an authority on climate change? Let’s be sensible, and wait to hear what Angelina Jolie has to say.

You mean that you need to be an authority on something before providing a public voice to somebody [...]

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