Hot air on climate change

This article was published in The Sydney Morning Herald 22 November 2009

The Government needs to reclaim the terms of the debate from the sceptics.

Britain's new high commissioner, Baroness Valerie Amos, is somewhat perplexed about where she has found herself on her new posting.

Earlier this month the Baroness gave her first interview in which she politely expressed her concern about the lack of sophistication in the debate about the emissions trading scheme.

Not because Australians are not across the scheme's details but because the debate seems to have backflipped to one of whether or not climate change is even happening.