australia: We should be having a serious conversation about what are the best policies needed for that, according to The Guardian. And we should understand the implications of Australia's climate policy for our long-term competitiveness and international standing. We should be talking about positioning Australia economically for the low-carbon future, making use of our huge opportunities to produce low-cost clean energy, and mobilising investment. Instead it's the carbon wars once more. The paper by Brian Fisher is a private black-box modelling exercise of no particular standing that uses outdated assumptions. A confected furore over the presumed cumulative economic cost dominates the headlines, provoked by a single short report with some scary-looking numbers.
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