Lament for carbon tax now clearly understandable

Australia’s dumping of the carbon tax was lamented by thinking people all around the world.

Reasons for that sadness are now clearly apparent with the carbon intensity of Australia's main electricity grid having surged since the tax was abandoned.

Writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, the Environment Editor, Peter Hannam, said that on an annualised basis, emissions from the National Electricity Market serving eastern Australia have risen by 3.9 million tonnes since June, while the sector's emissions intensity has risen 11 per cent.

His story, headed: “Emissions for power sector jump as carbon tax ends” discusses this jump in carbon emissions.