Our Dear Leader has been keeping out of the picture the last few days, letting her boss Kevin "Never Wrong" Rudd take all the heat for his ill-conceived "announcement" of 50,000 green jobs.
However, she emerged on Monday to do what she does best - to bark at people. This time, she is busy blaming Malcolm Turnbull for any slippage in the Government's ETS.
"It will be Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull's fault alone if the government's planned emissions trading scheme (ETS) fails to materialise", Climate Change Minister Penny Wong has told a policy conference. Senator Wong said "if Mr Turnbull stopped the ETS from coming about, it would be a sad change from a man who once championed the cause for climate change action."
Oh really? I guess she must have figured that Malcolm was a soft target, what with all the other problems he has at the moment.
Never mind that at pretty much the same time, Brad Page from the Electricity Supply Association, was saying that the $3.5bn in free permits available to generators
"is inadequate when the government has two sets of modelling where it shows it's at least $10bn in asset value losses. What happens is that you inject enormous sovereign risk and undermine the confidence of debt and equity providers - the very people you want to invest in the low emissions future."
So - the problem isn't that our Dear Leader's mad ETS will obliterate the electricity generation industry and turn Australia into a foreign investment banana republic, the problem is that the Leader of the Opposition has the temerity to question her proposals.
To make matters worse, she then went on to say that
What Mr Turnbull called design principles were nothing but a "string of wilted fig leaves", Senator Wong said, adding there was "no reference to reality".
I wonder just which "reality" our Dear Leader is referring to?
The reality that temperatures keep decreasing while CO2 levels keep increasing?
The reality that there has been no net increase in temperatures in the last 30 years?
The reality that sea temperatures are dropping?
The reality that tropical cyclones are decreasing?
Or even the reality that the Sahara desert is greening - presumably as a result of all this "Global Warming"?
If anyone is in need of a serious reality check, it is our Dear Leader of the Carbon Revolution!
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