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FROM THE EDITOR
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Review - Institute of Public Affairs
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September 1, 2008
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Free-marketeers cannot refuse to engage and critique the emissions trading scheme just because they are not happy with the science.
This edition of the IPA Review focuses on the federal government's new emissions trading scheme (ETS). It does not, however engage with the science behind climate change. In fact, in this edition at least, we avoid it deliberately.
We have all seen how the scientific contention that an increase in carbon dioxide emissions is causing rising global températures gets simplified and distorted by the meat-grinder that is the popular press. An article featured in The Age on August 9 shows just how far off the ranch the environmental hysteria has gone-'rising ...