The reduced, but still majority public support for action against climate change - which seems to have frightened Kevin Rudd off pursuing ''the great moral and economic challenge of our time'' - may be explained by the Coalition's ''great big new tax'' scare campaign.

Hot air obscures the real climate change story
http://www.theage.com.au/business/hot-air-obscures-the-real-climate-change-story-20100430-tz9w.html
Ross Gittins, The Age, 1 May, 2010