Morrison puts lipstick on Tony Abbott’s pig of a climate policy

Prime minister Scott Morrison has finally unveiled his climate policy and it is clearly designed to do two things: Placate the core rump of climate deniers and ideologues within his own party and the conservative media, and try to fool enough others that the Coalition is doing something to address a problem it barely admits exists, or worth doing anything about.

Scott  Morrison - puts lipstick on Tony Abbott's pig of a climate policy.

The $2 billion funding over 10 years for emissions reduction projects shows that the Coalition’s climate policy and commitment has barely moved in a decade. Tony Abbott’s Direct Action funnelled more money in less than half the time – even if the emissions benefits of many of the projects funded are questionable and being questioned.

But Morrison, even as Australia lags ever further behind its modest commitments to Paris, and as the warning signs over climate change grow every stark, is putting on lipstick on a pig of a policy.

Read the story from RenewEconomy by Giles Parkinson - “Morrison puts lipstick on Tony Abbott’s pig of a climate policy.”