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The Coalition’s absurd Direct Action climate policy, always grossly underfunded, will now have to provide compensation for firms after the repeal of the carbon price as well. It’s not affordable.

Tony Abbott is likely to rescind the current cap-and-trade legislation if he wins the next election, but it’s easy to see the potential for a new carbon pricing scheme to develop out of the stump his axe created.

Tony Abbott is clearly aware that electricity costs are a hot topic in the political and social debate around carbon pricing and energy policies, writes Giles Parkinson of RenewEconomy.

The Rio+20 gathering is 2012’s biggest international event, writes Anna Rose, chair of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, from Rio de Janeiro.

Crikey readers have their say.

The cost of “soil magic” under the Coalition’s “direct action” climate change plan may have been challenged by Greg Hunt himself.

The new carbon package deals with the issue of international permits far better than the CPRS did. Funny the Coalition is complaining about it.

Another Coalition frontbencher has been caught out relying on dodgy claims off the internet, along with plenty of others.

Welcome back to the politics of climate change, Australian style, which wrecks leaderships, sunders parties and induces bizarre alliances as a matter of course.

Liberal MP Greg Hunt impressed Greg Jericho (the blogger formerly known as Grog’s Gamut). And perhaps surprisingly — since Hunt is shadow minister for climate action and the environment — it was his thoughts on mental health that were the most compelling.

Whilst the ‘Dome of Conscience’ may sound like a tardus type contraption, it was only a few years back that many thought it was the magic bullet in the quest towards parliamentary honesty and transparent debate, writes Zach Kitschke.

Caroline Overington pens a bizarre love poem to Opposition environment minister Greg Hunt, including the immortal lines “You know Greg Hunt, he rides a bike, But will he let me feel his Newspoll spike?”.

The Coalition’s pursuit of Peter Garrett has faded in only the second Question Time this week, with the Minister untroubled by sustained Opposition questioning this afternoon.

Peter Garrett either should or shouldn’t have attended a meeting this week, and should or should roll out solar panels fast, and is or isn’t guilty of industrial manslaughter. Welcome to political journalism.

Climate change? That was so last year, laments David Marr. Canberra has grown tired of it because it’s all too complicated, and it’s far more interesting to see Tony Abbott dance around and make a fool of himself.

Against all expectations, Tony Abbott and Greg Hunt have actually come up with a clever climate change policy, and certainly one that will change the debate in Australia.

The Government faces a tough sell on climate change, especially if Abbott and his media cheerleaders are skillful enough salesmen to convince voters climate change can be crossed off their list of concerns just by throwing some handouts around.