Greening While Driving - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Already browbeaten by high school texts on recycling and global warming, kids can now look forward to proselytizing from that driver’s ed teacher in the right-hand seat.

A divisive climate

Minchin has nailed himself securely to the mast as a climate change disbeliever, and has encouraged other MPs to attach themselves to the cause in what amounts to a revolt against Turnbull on this key issue. The respective Minchin and Turnbull views on climate change cannot be reconciled. Minchin has framed the issue in philosophical and ideological terms, arguing that rejection of the climate change argument is a necessity for the political right in its larger fight with the left. ''For the extreme left it provides the opportunity to do what they've always wanted to do, to sort of de-industrialise the Western world,'' he told Four Corners. ''You know, the collapse of communism was a disaster for the left … and really they embraced environmentalism as their new religion.''