Just who is it that prefers to ignore the facts because they're concerned they conflict with their corporate libertarian ideology? Are we supposed to indulge you like little children? If you believe your ideology can deal with AGW prove it - but your leaders prefer to deny instead - it seems they don't believe. Perhaps Turnbull will have the courage to try but he'll have the rest of his party dragging him down
Right now?
The classic, is the GOP for ignoring facts. And it has nothing whatsoever to do with some imagined corporate libertarian ideology. The markets will operate just as well with a price on carbon as in any other environment.
The socialist ideology? What can be done,; we should all just stop burning coal? And do you give a shit about the worlds poor, the malnourished, those without their espresso shops and merino t shirts ?
The greens with their hard left ideology (across the globe), hang on to climate change like it's their problem, they provide their solutions which are based not at all on science but on socialist ideology (it's the rich people's fault and they must pay).
That is easily the worst way of trying to influence things, and hence they have failed completely - study European politics of the 1980s , and more specifically UK left wing politics of the 1980s because that is when the socialists morphed across into green parties and pushed the environmentallists out - green peace is a good place to start.
It's obvious that the issue needs to be taken away from a left versus right, but the left truly believe it's theirs, that the only solution is to curb consumption and more importantly to curb economic growth - that requirement will never win out unless water is lapping at washingtons threshold
Edit - classic example of greens doing the wrong thing through ideology. Anti any logging in native forest. Ok, I'm building a house, it is a high quality build with >100 year building life expectancy - intention is for all screw fittings (enables recycling) and use of Australian class 1 timbers. This will lock up a substantial amount of carbon for a long period, yet the greens would have me build out of fast growing pine, or probably mud bricks........
So in this example, the correct policy for maximising carbon lock up would involve high durability reforestation after logging, perhaps forcing higher quality construction, and recyclable construction techniques. Their anti stance, means that most hardwood for construction in Australia is sourced from SE Asia