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By 2016, will Tony Abbott be dragged kicking and screaming to election with an ETS policy?

Palmer and Gore: What are they good for? Independent Australia Sandi Keane 29 June 2014, “………New climate convert, Clive Palmer, will, no doubt, have attended the UNCCC’s COP21 Climate Conference in Paris in 2015, where he’ll have hogged the limelight promoting a reincarnated ETS for Australia.

Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) will have risen alarmingly and comparisons will be made with 2013, when they fell the most in 23 years — thanks to the carbon tax.

Undoubtedly, all the blame will be laid at the feet of the Abbott Government.

Thanks to Al Gore’s intervention, the world will be watching with great interest to see if his play paid off.

Result? Australia will no longer been seen as a laggard, but as a global leper.

Clive’s Damascus conversion from hero of the little people to self-appointed hero of the planet will see him and his ankle-biting PUPs wedging Abbott at the 2016 election.

Abbott has already attracted the scorn of the world media. As more embarrassing news rolled in of our boorish, blundering leader abroad, a new Twitter hashtag –  #anidiotabroad – sprang up and was trending during the course his foreign gafcation.

So what is the most likely outcome?

There’ll be more internal ructions if Abbott continues to stare down the will of the people and squander our opportunity to grab a share of the low-carbon economy. His failure to reduce our CO2 emissions will see him flayed alive by the media.

For a man as bereft of ideas as Abbott, he’ll surely follow his hero’s playbook and be dragged kicking and screaming with an ETS to the election — just like Howard did.

It’s, indeed, hard to see this government holding out with the prospect of electoral defeat — die-hard skeptics, right-wing nutters, neo-lib ideologues, the IPA and mining moguls with bulging campaign treasure chests notwithstanding.

But when politically powerful coal mining billionaires decide the time for action on climate change has come then the end of the age of the climate dinosaurs has truly arrived. http://www.independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/palmer-and-gore-what-is-it-good-for,6619

June 30, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News