Prime Minister Scott Morrison has made some widely-reported comments defending Australia’s emissions reduction policies, in the wake of quite widespread criticism, verging upon scorn, for Angus Taylor’s performance at the Madrid climate change conference and the Government’s hitherto denial of any link between (anthropogenic) climate change and the widespread bushfires that have occurred widely around Australia over the last couple of weeks. In what I think may turn out to be quite a significant moment, Mr Morrison has found it within himself to acknowledge that climate change does have something to do with the fires, but still had to qualify it with “and many other factors”, in a nod to the “climate is changing but it has always changed as part of a natural process” sector. I have been particularly struck by comments that the Prime Minister went on to make. The first parts are familiar: “Australia is in the enviable position, unlike most countries, where we have actually exceed...