Wrong signal on climate

phill Parsons
THE United States will be at the Copenhagen climate negotiations and it may even agree to an emissions reduction target although in 8 months it is unlikely that the Congress wil have agreed to a scheme to achieve one. of course they may not have to now there courts have ruled that carbon is a pllutant and therefore its emiossion can be governed by existing legislation.

It is always intersting to hear the government argue against itself. No target and no emissions trading scheme is the equivalent of having a target so low it is irrelevant, id est 5%. Of course it could grow larger if there is a strong committment by other big carbon emitters but still below the example expected to be set by the developed world.

And what is that strong committment? Undescribed it is left to to Rudd to decide on the politics of it here.

Poor example or no example because it is wrong. Either will, if they influence global decisions and generate a weak commitment, put the globe in line to enter into a future of continuous dangerous climate instability as the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere will be a millenial process.

The Penny hasn’t dropped. The laws of physics and chemistry cannot be mutated by the CFMEU or the industires lobbying for a soft deal.
The CFMEU should know better, the rich always pay last and coal miners are not rich.

Time will put the sacrifice of Tasmania’s forests for greed into the shade in compariosn to the sacrifice of the climate upon which humans have built their societies and economies for the same short term objective.

Goodluck