The Liberals could win on climate — if only they were smart enough

One of the characteristics of the coalition’s approach to climate for decades is that it is not a policy issue, but simply a political issue. No one leading the Liberals, apart from Malcolm Turnbull, actually thought the climate crisis was real or worth doing anything about.

By mid-Howard, climate was a weapon to be used to attack Labor, when the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences was used as a Liberal Party propaganda unit to invent models of the alleged effects of climate action.