Coalition's weird climate rhetoric says one thing, its modelling says another

Post-Abbott, the Coalition is still claiming its own policies can cut emissions with almost no cost while wildly exaggerating the cost of alternatives

Remember how Malcolm Turnbull promised to respect the intelligence of the Australian people if he became prime minister?

Some of his ministers seem to have missed that memo, because they are now recycling the same discredited Abbott-era claims about the cost of more ambitious climate change action, while ignoring their own up-to-date economic modelling that says deeper emission cuts would come at far lower additional costs.