Labor's green 'fanatics' in denial, says Turnbull

The Federal Government is stepping up its attack on the Opposition's climate change policies.
The Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull is defending the Government's decision to wait until next year before setting pollution reduction targets.
He told the ABC's Insiders program it is a sensible approach.
"Are you going to trust a bunch of fanatics, which is really where Garrett and Rudd are at the moment?" he said.
"They are on a fanatical, moralising campaign blind to the economics, blind to the realities, determined to prove they are greener than the greenest green.
"And if you have policies based on that type of ideology you may feel pure but you will be pure at the price of being very poor."
Labor leader Kevin Rudd has said his party is committed to a 60 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Mr Turnbull rejects the suggestion that the Government has been in denial on climate change, citing initiatives such as a move away from incandescent light bulbs, and its funding to stop deforestation.
"Labor are the real climate change deniers, they are denying the global perspective of climate change," he said.
"Labor has not thought any of this through."
PM on carbon trading
The Prime Minister will focus on global warming and carbon emissions trading when he delivers a major speech today at the Liberal Federal Council in Sydney.
Mr Howard will tell the council that managing climate change will mean higher costs for business and householders but he will argue the Coalition would do a better job of managing that than a Labor government.
He is expected to attack the Opposition's approach, accusing it of being irresponsible for setting a greenhouse reduction target but not doing the modelling to know how that would hit the economy.
He will stress that a carbon trading system is necessary.
Mr Howard will lay out the principles of emissions trading that his task force has called for and explain how the Government is moving towards implementing it.
Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese says the Government has been in denial on climate change for too long and he has labelled the scheme a political stunt.
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