Labor V Liberal Carbon Abatement Policies

The CO2 abatement discussion has been very one sided. All it has done is concentrate on one side of the argument, The labor parties Carbon Tax.
The Liberal's CO2 abatement method, Direct Action has had little in the way of conversation.
If, as a lot of noisy people (maybe the majority in Australia) are asking is to have another election on the carbon tax, what is the alternative policy if there is another election and the Libs. under Tony Abbott get in. Well it is "Direct Action".
Lenore Taylor a journalist with the SMH has an article/opinion piece today Saturday on the differences between the two policies. I cannot link to it because it is not on the SMH website, not sure why.
The differences are:
Target The same for both parties, 5% reduction in CO2 emissions based on 2000 levels.
Cost to Budget Labor $3.9b over 4 years, Liberal $3.2b over 4 years and $10.5b over 10 years.
Claimed cost to Industry Labor $23 per tonne of emissions from top 500 polluters, Liberal nothing yes $0
Ease of scaling up Labor high, Liberal low.
Ease of scaling down Labor low, Liberal high.
According to Abbott there will be no cost to the taxpayers because it will be paid for by savings in the budget.
Direct action proposes that about 60% (85 million tonnes) of Australia's emissions reduction will be from soil carbon. But it has some detractors, Farmers.
Another 15 million tonnes from long rotation tree plantations. But the timber industry are allegedly saying that up to 600,000 hectares of cleared agricultural land will be needed, but the National party are allegedly saying it has a guarantee that no viable farmland will be converted to plantation.
There is a lot more in this article, but to finish.
Direct action is designed to take 5% of emissions by 2020 in a painless way, with industry possibly unchanged. What their plan is for after 2020 who knows. Abbott was allegedly asked at a Brisbane community forum on Thursday about the future of coal and electricity generation. He allegedly said, "do you really want to transform society"? Did he mean no or yes. But then again with Tony you cannot believe anything he says, according to himself, except if it is written down.
And of course don't forget that no Australian economist or climate scientist endorse Tony's direct action plan.