In the not too distant future, when climate disruption has further aggravated Australia's natural see-saw between drought and floods, posterity will likely wonder at the issues that dominated our discourse.

Those in the future will note the Turnbull government in August 2018 was proposing a national energy guarantee supposed to integrate climate policy with the economy "for the first time", and end a decade of "climate wars".

Read the full Sydney Morning Herald article, quoting Professor Frank Jotzo, Crawfrod School of Public Policy.