Award-winning political columnist Mike Smithson captures the hot air rising from SA Liberal party ranks as derision continues to erupt over a net zero emission target.

Life in the Liberal Party wasn’t meant to be easy.

Just ask Federal Liberal Leader Sussan Ley who’s preparing to thrash out a revised climate policy as MPs travel to Canberra in a recall that has many angry at having to make another pilgrimage to the national capital.

The Liberals remain all at sea or up in the air over climate and net-zero emissions, in a turmoil which seems likely to cut Ley’s leadership brutally short.

For those who’re finding it confusing, you’re not alone.

In essence, the party is split over dropping the policy or maintaining it with an immediate solution seemingly hard to find.

At state level, the conservative dominated Liberal state council doesn’t support net-zero, but the moderate influenced parliamentary wing does.

Go figure.

On the federal landscape, their Nationals coalition partner has gone it alone by half scrapping the policy of a defined 2050 timeline, proposing to align itself to an OECD average.

Is there a right or wrong philosophy when it comes to reducing carbon emissions when we look towards the rest of the world?

Everyone would like to ingest the purest air we can breathe and control global warming, but why punish ourselves to reach a target when we produce only a fraction of the problem compared with China?

Others claim that walking away from net-zero would pull the rug from investment confidence, raise........

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