Things are changing fast:
LABOR’S race against time to pass the emissions trading scheme by 3:45 pm today has been scuttled amid speculation Malcolm Turnbull could resign today.
His supporters are now switching their support to Joe Hockey who is expected to enter the race when Mr Turnbull stands down in a race against Tony Abbott.
Mr Turnbull confirmed today he would agree to a leadership spill if that is what the party wanted.
But he predicted the Liberals must embrace a more modern position on climate change or risk electoral oblivion at a double dissolution election. [The “modern” position on climate change is to take the alarmist predictions with a huge pinch of salt – think CRU – Ed]
“The people who have sought to tear me down do not even believe in the policies we took to the last election,” he told ABC Radio. [Things have moved on, pal – Ed]
“They don’t believe in climate change. It is irresponsible. And it is completely and utterly self-destructive from a policy point of view.” [We believe in climate change – we just don’t believe it’s caused primarily by humans, and we certainly don’t believe that Rudd’s ETS is the solution. It ain’t – Ed]
Mr Turnbull said he was confident enough Liberal senators would still vote for an emsisions trading scheme.
Liberal senators who support an emissions trading scheme have told The Australian Online they will not support the government in guillotining the debate.
Joe Hockey would just be Turnbull-lite, soft Left and in favour of an ETS (and rather too “ocker” for my liking). The only option is Tony Abbott, healthily sceptical of climate alarmism and a proper conservative who would never have agreed to “negotiate” with a sitting Labor government.
Read it here.
Australian Climate Madness 
Like the, “They don’t BELIEVE in climate change” bit.
Sorry mate, the science doesn’t support the claim.
Also MT is doing the ‘children and children’s children’ bit a la Rudd.
Seems like poetic justice for Hockey to give him a bit of stick!
So Garnaut has also raised his blinkered head ,yikes he must surely be referring to the Global Warming alarmists when he says, “you have climate sharks preying on the vulnerability of people who aren’t in a position to be well informed themselves.” Too right mate, includes you too since you are in a position to check the underlying assumptions of your economic models. Under-lying indeed! CO2 is life – ETS is tax, $$$$. The $$$$ Rudd chucks around and desperately needs a new tax to cover. Then he wants to sign a Treaty giving $40bn to the UN for whatever reason a new Global government decides, without our say so. If we balk they can come and seize assets, whatever. Who gave him the right to sign away our sovereignty?
NO ETS and most definitely NO TREATY.