By 2020 standards, Angus Taylor's low-emissions technology statement is not really a climate policy | Adam Morton

Australians are just expected to trust the minister and his advisers to successfully pick winners deserving a crack at $18bn in taxpayers' moneyThe first point to make about Angus Taylor's low-emissions technology statement, launched on Tuesday as the Morrison government's primary response to the climate crisis, is an obvious one: it would be terrific if it worked.We should all hope the technologies that Taylor says the government will prioritise - hydrogen, energy storage, low emissions steel and aluminium, soil carbon and, yes, even the much-mocked carbon capture and storage (CCS) - come off and allow deep, rapid, sustainable cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Continue reading...