Malcolm Turnbull's emissions backflip sends signal that climate change is not real | Erwin Jackson

The PM had seemed to recognise that you can't have an energy policy without a plan to cut emissions. No longer A note to our prime minister: you can't have an energy policy that assumes that climate change does not exist. By dumping the commitment to take emissions targets to the federal parliament the PM is signalling climate change is not real. This leaves the rest of us paying the price for another political capitulation on cleaning up our power sector.Some parts of the government don't believe in climate change. Their ideological ties to the coal-based power systems built 40 to 50 years ago has scuttled every attempt to develop credible climate change energy policy over the past 10 years, leaving us where we are now. Continue reading...