Posted 8 March 2011
"With Julia Gillard’s sudden switch to support for a carbon price, Australia in 2013 could be the first country to hold an election with anthropogenic global warming (AGW) as the pivotal issue," write Geoffrey Lehmann, Peter Farrell & Dick Warburton in Quadrant.
"We have written this piece as an intelligent voter’s guide to global warming—to provide basic information often missing from the debate. In Part 1 we examine the science, and in Part 2 the practicalities of an ETS and carbon tax, and the politics. All three aspects — science, economics and the associated politics — intersect and drive each other." More