Political Science 1020E Chapter Notes -Global Warming Policy Foundation, Climate Change Denial, Accorhotels
7 Dec 2014
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October 23, 2012, 9:32 pm et by jason m. breslow. Last autumn should have been a high point in the career of julia gillard. Australia"s prime minister found herself trapped in a script familiar to many in the united. In february 2011, gillard proposed an ambitious plan (pdf) to establish a market-based trading program for carbon emissions. Just as health care reform fueled tea party outrage in the u. s. , the proposal similarly incensed a conservative opposition in australia. Minority leader tony abbott who has dismissed climate science as crap called for a people"s revolt against the measure. After the legislation narrowly cleared parliament in november, conservatives turned the plan into a rallying cry, embracing repeal as a central plank of their 2013 platform. One year later, australia"s bruising fight over cap-and-trade stands as a reminder that despite broad scientific consensus on global warming, an unsettled political debate over the issue is not unique to the u. s.
