Today, Malcolm Turnbull and Josh Frydenberg announced another iteration in the climate policy fiasco – a National Energy Guarantee, scrapping support for renewable energy. It is a policy specifically designed to extend the life of coal fired power stations and slow the growth of renewable energy.

Can we talk about what this National Energy Guarantee actually guarantees?

• This guarantees that many more people will die (as I recently argued at The Guardian), lose their homes and their livelihoods thanks to worse climate disruption.
• This guarantees that whole island nations will sink beneath the waves.
• This guarantees that more people will live in energy poverty as it locks in old, expensive power.
• This guarantees that workers in coal fired power stations and coal mines get a false sense of security and absolutely no plan to support them when the end comes, as it will.
• This guarantees that the ugly climate politics will continue, as they must until we have something that works.