Good piece There will be no real change while Little Johnny is in power.

Congratulations, you've won the award for being the one millionth article on Online Forum about climate change!!

Well done but climate change , global warming what is this speak all about.

Is it about greenhouse gases which have increase over the last 200 years or and the el nino effect.

one should ask these and how they would fix it.
Will signing kyoto make these disapeer, i dont think so.

With our other developing counties in the world they know what is happening but do not wish to start with new technology due to big company profits.
Its about time our government had change and this is up to the people.

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we are after members and candidates who represent the people and not just a political party this is why we are different.

Thank you, Andrew Macintosh, for your detailed history of the Howard government’s changing attitudes to climate change. I do hope that the ALP can do better, but I doubt it.

You certainly highlighted Howard’s “spin without action” on climate change. One thing you didn’t look at is – to what level does Howard actually understand climate change? My guess is that he understands it very little, and cares even less.
Howard, following George W. Bush discovered climate change very suddenly, at the behest of the nuclear lobby.

Howard now is managing, with his usual adroitness, to walk the tightrope – he has to appear to address climate change, so he can sell the nuclear industry.
He has to do as little as possible to address climate change, so as to appease the coal-mining industry. Christina Macpherson www.antinuclearaustralia.com

well well christina

it seems that the greens and labor will take us into a spiraling recession and povety for all.
No coal no jobs no coal no steel, no coal no power, no coal no computer, get the point.

No coal no product if it is closed down which is what the greens and labor will do.

Oh well must be due for another recession that we just have to have.

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No-one's saying we're going to shut down our coal industries tapp. Bob Brown wants us to have a plan within three years to make them obsolete, though that's asking for too much whichever party is in power. Having a plan is to admit sometime down the track we'll need it; the pressure's then on to implement it.

The article's pretty much an accurate summary of the government's approach - highlight the negative economic effects and hope no-one thinks in terms longer than the duration of a bank loan. Have to admit it's difficult to get punters to look far ahead when their heads are stuck in their wallets.

This government's response to climate change is completely one-dimensional. It's all about the economy and nothing about what sustains it. What beats me is the level of ignorance in general about the environment - how can we continue to transfer chemicals from the ground to the air without there being a consequence?