Quadrant Online - Why aren't we being told?

Given that we are told that “the science” points only one way and everyone else is a “ratbag denier”, surely the Australian people are entitled to know of testimony by an expert which flies in the face of the establishment position.

The fact that it coincides with the common sense you find in the rank and file is not sufficient reason to censor it.

Less Noise, More Action on Energy and Climate Issues | The ChamberPost

There’s enough noise rattling around in the energy and climate debate that it sometimes sounds like an off-pitch band marching past your office window (not that the Chamber knows anything about this). All of this become a distraction from the actual work being done in Washington to address energy and climate issues in a commonsense, bipartisan manner.

Quadrant Online - Climate of discontent

What is likely to happen now? Apart from abandoning or postponing the introduction of a carbon tax (either of which would now seem politically unacceptable for Labor), there seem to be two options or combinations thereof. First, announce a tax that is so low that it will have minimal adverse effects on businesses exposed to international competition. Second, create very wide exemptions along the line that the EU appears to have done under its ETS. Either way Australia would have an emissions reduction policy that would do very little to actually reduce emissions but would add considerably to bureaucracy in Canberra.