Kyoto - Road Maps, Solutions, Leadership, Challenges

The Australian - As the divisions emerged, Australia's newly appointed Climate Change Minister, Penny Wong, said the Rudd Government wanted Australia to provide international leadership in Bali and believed that all participants must commit to binding targets on emission reductions in the post-Kyoto era. "We would expect binding commitments to be on the table for both the developed and developing nations," Senator Wong said yesterday. "We recognise this is a global challenge which requires a global solution, and the nations of the world have to come together to find it."

However, Senator Wong said she could not nominate targets because the two-week Bali conference, which has brought together almost 190 nations, would negotiate the issue and set a road map for the future. Senator Wong said the Government had asked for economic modelling on how its policies, including the adoption of a requirement that all energy be obtained from renewable sources by 2020, would affect Australia's greenhouse emissions. The study would be completed in four to six weeks.

Through the election campaign, Kevin Rudd and his ministers insisted they had the plans, we have them we tell you, a glorious plan for a glorious revolution, all hail mighty Kevin Rudd. We need binding targets, the end is near, think of the polar bear, the children you bastards!! So can we find out what are the targets that we need to bind ourselves to before we head off to the hardware store to get all the chains? I mean, this lot didn't parachute into Australia 2 months ago, they've been around for years and they have no clue on the detail, all strong on slogans about challenges and leadership though.

Another thing, we are assured that there are thousands, make that billions of experts around the universe that tell us we're all going to die soon and it's only a couple of Conservative fools who won't be convinced. Well then, why didn't the Rudd government ask one of these experts for some detail? If we were all going to die soon, you'd think the experts would have the details and not some wiffle-waffle about road maps and global solutions. I just hope this lot haven't forgotten that they need to keep Australia's interests first. I know we're supposed to be global citizens, think global, act local and all that, but when the bill comes, it's sent to Australia, not global citizens.

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