Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott is certainly no climate skeptic, but he understands better than Barack Obama the negative economic ramifications of regulations like those recently issued by the EPA. Scaremongers blasted Abbott earlier this year for abandoning unrealistic renewable energy standards and for opposing the United Nations’ climate agenda. Before the prime minister met with Obama this week, Al Gore poked the fire, hoping to encourage Abbott to take more drastic measures to combat global warming. “[W]e have had deniers of the climate crisis in office in the U.S. as well,” he said, implying Abbott rejects the alarmists’ view. (He doesn’t.) “History will not be kind to those who looked away, much less those who sought to prevent [action].” This is a battle between realism and fanaticism. History won’t be kind to those who fell for this hoax. More…