Poor want climate policies that work

More facts and evidence are presented when he points out the inconvenient truth of the value of nuclear energy and the hypocrisy of the environmental movement for not only opposing this emissions free energy, but being unwilling to even countenance an informed national debate on the subject.

Jesse Ausubel, the director of the Program for the Human Environment at Rockefeller University argues that many green groups don't appreciate what extensive renewable energy use will mean. "Nuclear is green. Renewables are not green."

The irony of energy and climate policy development in recent decades is that environmental campaigning against nuclear energy and dams for hydro-electricity has driven increases in emissions from coal.

The current Australian government started their conversation with the Australian people by talking of a new paradigm. They should embrace the rational new paradigm offered by fellow traveller Andrew Charlton on climate policy, as good policy is hard to come by these days.