The Carbon War - Four Corners

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For nearly a decade Australian political leaders have been at war over the best way to tackle climate change. Former Liberal leader Malcolm Turnbull was the first casualty. He lost his job because he supported a price on carbon. The former Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was next to go, after his polls collapsed when he dropped his plan to put a price on carbon. Now Prime Minister Julia Gillard faces an electoral revolt led by activists who say she doesn't have a mandate to introduce a carbon tax. And Opposition leader Tony Abbott is supporting this "people's revolt", hoping to force an early election.

There's little doubt that climate change and carbon reduction has become a deeply divisive issue in Australian politics - scientists and politicians have received death threats, the Prime Minister has been abused, talkback radio hosts have led protests to Canberra.

Reporter Marian Wilkinson investigates the campaign against the carbon tax, talking to Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott and other key players. She also talks to the scientists who have been threatened and asks why the issue has created so much division. She examines the facts behind the claims being made about the impact of the new carbon price and the emissions trading scheme that will follow.

The program also examines one of the industries that opponents of a carbon pricing scheme say will be most affected - coal mining. On a recent visit to Queensland, Tony Abbott claimed the carbon tax would destroy jobs in the coal industry. Four Corners goes to the Bowen Basin in Queensland to find out what's really going on. Will investment stop? Will jobs be lost? Will these regions be devastated?

With the Government's Clean Energy Bill now being debated in Parliament, the Opposition has vowed do everything it can to thwart its introduction - which means there will be more protests and more political casualties. And inside Labor, there is anxiety about Julia Gillard's ability to sell the policy and whether her leadership can survive it.

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[1000frolly]

Lie after lie after lie;

Why doesn't the ABC check what is true and what isnt?

Or at least get an alternative view?

The electricity prices have gone up mainly due to wasteful carbon reduction schemes like the solar panels nonsense. So its still ralated to the climate change scam.

The carbon tax will cost many, many THOUSANDS of blue-collar jobs; just try it and see.

[1000frolly]

Greens = REDS!

[1000frolly]

After initializing and parametrizing hundreds of unknown factors,inserting divergent proxy data and ignoring any difficult natural forcing factors,we ran hundreds of simulations until we obtained the results we wanted–an ensemble of meaningless projected results,which we then averaged. We utilized the liberally unprincipled component method to homogenize and sensitize this to produce a new hockey stick,which gave a very robust prediction (95% probability) that we are totally screwing all of you

[IdunCareLesSn00b]

Combet Chubb all of them are communists they just wont admit it.

[IdunCareLesSn00b]

Remember Bernardi is an ex banker? Yet hes telling the truth? That's odd! Turnull is lying about it because he wants to get rich from it.

[IdunCareLesSn00b]

@wellwellwellall That's what they want they are Marxists all the Greens and half of labor are Marxist Stalinist Maoists in Disguise.They see humans as a disease a commodity like cattle.

[wellwellwellall]

statement of the future: trapped in your ghetto city suburb riding your bike. only the tp of society will own a car. the rest of us.. well in the scrap heap... wake up aussies

[wellwellwellall]

tea party....doubt it. its grass roots that can see the labor party has used and spat out....basic common decency has left the corridors of the labor party. it sold the future of this nation. Its about soverignty, australiia and prosperity. help the true environmental causes through education, r and d and opportunity. not reduction in living standards julia!!!! The basics in democracy is being abused by the greens and labor