Politicians must set aside blinkered ideologies in the climate end-game | David Spratt and Ian Dunlop

The rapidly disintegrating 'agreement' to the Neg yet again sees the Coalition refusing to face up to the threat of climate change Humanity has a big decision to make very soon about its future on warming planet, but the federal Coalition is still in denial that human-induced climate change even exists, let alone that the climate end-game is upon us.The national energy guarantee (Neg) is the latest manifestation of that denial. A third-rate complex, over-engineered policy that will most likely fail to contribute to meeting all three of its main objectives, namely increased reliability of electricity supply, lower energy prices and a long way third, reducing carbon emissions. A compromise upon compromise designed to placate the scientifically and economically-illiterate Coalition rightwing, which ignores the first priority of any government, to ensure the security of the people. For climate change is now the greatest threat to that security. Continue reading...