Ross Garnaut – remember him?

Prof Garnaut is in the news again, this time reminding everyone that the current financial meltdown is no excuse for delaying Australia’s tinkering with a harmless trace gas in the atmosphere (in order to make a hopeless political gesture towards averting “climate change”):

“The financial crisis does not materially reduce the magnitude, or the urgency of the mitigation task, nor does it create a sound reason for delaying mitigation,” he said.

Thanks Prof – don’t call us…

Read it here.