On climate policy and power prices Turnbull is talking rubbish. Here are some facts

‘I just want to be very, very clear that energy prices are too high already. We will do everything that we can to put downward pressure on energy prices. We will not impose a carbon tax, or an emissions trading scheme – that is our position’

Ruling out carbon pricing is not, to quote Malcolm
Turnbull, doing ‘everything that we can to put
downward pressure on energy prices’ – it’s
a recipe for keeping prices higher.

This is the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, talking to the Melbourne radio host, Neil Mitchell, on Thursday, talking nonsense as it turned out – which is what the government has been doing all week on the subject of climate change.

How do I know he was talking nonsense?

There are any number of reports we can draw on to call out what can only be described as unmitigated, lowest common denominator, political crap emanating from the mouth of the prime minister – but I’ll just pick a couple.

Read Katharine Murphy’s story on The Guardian - “On climate policy and power prices Turnbull is talking rubbish. Here are some facts.”