"climate change" is inextricably linked to politics. That's what the whole thing is about. It's an unholy alliance between the loopy left that want to redistribute wealth; the greedy capitalists who can see a killing in trading thin air (called carbon nowadays); and naive scientists who think that by 'bigging it up' they can attract grant money that they have been chasing for decades in order to keep them in a job.
I find it fascinating to see that the IPCC are now saying that there isn't enough evidence to back up claims of extremes of weather; that evidence is now coming forward that the various "experts" have deliberately put massive spin on their "findings" in order to scare everybody into forking out for grants.
The whole thing is a crock.
And anyway the thread title is about the Carbon Tax. That's political. It's also one the many big, big cons used shamelessly by this sorry excuse for an Australian government in their attempts to scam the people of this country. But, the day of reckoning will arrive even though, by underhand tactics, that day is now a little further away.