Hidden doom of climate change

by Clive Hamilton in The Courier-Mail

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Originally published in The Courier-Mail on September 9, 2007

The Prime Minister, various ministers and the fossil fuel lobby have for years claimed that cutting emissions would be economically ruinous, cause massive job losses and destroy our international competitiveness. None of these claims is backed by credible evidence and can easily be shown to be false.

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