Labor and it’s lackeys continue to play cat and mouse with every word the opposition leader, Tony Abbott utters. This is no doubt to distract us from this government’s utter, continuing and willful failure. Even Andrew Bolt starts to buy into the game in exasperation:

When you’ve promoted policies you know are frauds to fix a problem you think is exaggerated, it’s hard to later remember what you said. …At some stage the Liberals will have to decide whether to attack the global warming scaremongers or just potter along in this dangerous way, paying lip service to a false god.

…in response to an article by Ben Packham:  ‘Weathervane’ Abbott targeted over support for price on carbon” The Australian July 20, 2011:

LABOR has seized on a second contradictory climate change statement by Tony Abbott in the space of just a few days, in which he said he’d never supported a carbon price. The Opposition Leader made the claim on Gippsland’s Star FM yesterday, saying: “I’ve never been in favour of a carbon tax or an emissions trading scheme.”

But in October 2009 Mr Abbott, under then-opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull, publicly backed an emissions trading scheme in an interview on the ABC’s Lateline program. “We don’t want to play games with the planet. So we are taking this issue seriously and we would like to see an ETS,” he said at the time.

He made a similar comment on radio 2UE in November that year. “You can’t have a climate change policy without supporting this ETS at this time,” he said.

But read what Tony Abbott is actually saying. On the ABC Lateline above, he uses the ‘we’, in “we would like to see an ETS”. As he is not the Queen of England, the ‘we’ must refer to the Liberal party, which under the alarmist Malcolm Turnbull, most certainly wanted an ETS. Months later, it is no secret that he resigned in protest at the ETS, so he is unlikely to have been a big fan of it within the party under Turnbull. His statement on 2UE similarly states the bleeding obvious likelihood of ETS “at this time”, on the eve of Copenhagen’s anticipated global carbon trading, but does not suggest that he is necessarily in favour of it. Does he say anywhere anytime “I believe in urgent decarbonization of our industry”? or “We’re all gonna die if we don’t tax air”, or  “I believe this is the greatest moral challenge”? I think not.

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