Australia: Emissions target tightrope

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The danger, however, is that relatively noisy debate on this issue among activists may be politically counterproductive: ratcheting up long-term targets could scare the horses, as it were, or induce pessimism in the public mind, instead of what has appeared up to now to be fairly firm resolve to address this problem. It will also allow the climate change denialists, and the special interests who sponsor them and hope to profit from their claims, to resurrect their discredited case, and replay the scaremongering about the costs of addressing climate change that characterised the recent public debate and underwrote the Howard government's inaction on this issue.