Tagged with Kevin Rudd 
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Australia’s Rudd slams the “deniers” and the “gaggle” of “conspiracy theorists” opposing climate action
Obama takes on the anti-scientific delayers 0
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Cap-and-fade for Australia's conservatives
The defeat of Australia’s climate plan is not bad news for cap-and-trade 12
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
It may be tempting to view the Australian Senate's defeat Wednesday of climate change legislation as a portent of things to come as the U.S. Senate prepares to take up a cap-and-trade bill. But the rejection of the Australian legislation reflects the peculiarities of Aussie politics rather than the viability of cap-and-trade.
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Clear as Rudd
Australia’s real climate on climate change 1
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
As ACES moves to the U.S. Senate, we can expect to see a series of arguments emerge aimed at international cooperation on this issue. Worries about China are always at the top. We can’t do something about climate change, the opposition opines, because China will do nothing. But we’ve recently seen a new twist on this mantra going in the opposite direction. Our closest allies—namely, Australia—who are ahead of us on addressing global warming are in fact reversing their course and having second thoughts. Or at least that’s the impression conveyed last week in the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal by Kimberly Strassel. This argument is as false as the claim that China is doing nothing.
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