Australia's climate wars were always stupid. Now they've got even dumber | Katharine Murphy

Climate action wreckers who used to rant about real things - carbon pricing, a national energy guarantee - are spouting about policies that don't even existGiven Australian politics has transited back to climate change, stupid isn't really a shock. Stupid is the default.But even though stupid is to be expected - and stupid always gets supercharged when the Coalition fuses its climate change "debates" with internal leadership tension - I'm still gobsmacked that somehow, over the past 72 hours, we have managed to move to somewhere even dumber. Let me explain what I mean by this. Continue reading...