Rudd looks a tit in Singapore
Just as it looks more likely that the ETS will be passed in Australia, the rest of the world is hedging its bets. Funny how when the crunch comes, other countries are so reluctant to put their economies where their mouth is, and name a figure on their emissions reductions:
ASIA-Pacific leaders will drop a fixed target for halving greenhouse gas emissions in a final summit statement, a Chinese official said, ahead of a breakfast meeting on climate issues organised by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
“On the 50 per cent reduction target (from 1990 levels) by 2050, yes, it did appear in the draft,” said Yi Xianliang, a Chinese foreign ministry official who is part of the country’s negotiating team at world climate talks.
“However, it is a very controversial issue in the world community… if we put it in this (final) statement, I think it would disrupt the negotiation process,” he told reporters on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.
Leaders from 21 APEC members including US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao are in Singapore for an annual summit ending today.
The meeting is one of the last international gatherings ahead of world climate change talks opening in Copenhagen on December 7.
Why is it that only Australia seems to want to bind itself to emissions targets ahead of Copenhagen?
Read it here.
Australian Climate Madness 
“Why is it that only Australia seems to want to bind itself to emissions targets ahead of Copenhagen?””
Simple — we are currently being “led” by a megalomaniac who wants to ‘save the planet’ and achieve world recognition for himself in the process. He is ably assisted by a complete raving egomaniac of a Climate Change minister who – also being seriously damaged goods herself – feels a similar compelling need for approval on a grand scale. The risk of irreparably damaging the economy of the country is a small price to pay for a bit of psychotherapy, don’t you think?
Witness the events of the last ten days: We have had Kevin Rudd’s extraordinary “Nuremberg Speech” at the Lowy Institute and now we have the bizzare spectacle of k.d. wong’s Climate Change Gestapo paying the CSIRO (who self-censors and gags debate on climate) to produce a report saying that sea-level rise will be 1.1 metres rather than the “IPCC-recommended” 79cm.
I greatly fear that between now and Copenhagen there will be an attempt to burn down the Reichstag in Canberra, and that the AFP will immediately announce that they are seeking two individuals, who bear a striking resemblance to Bob Carter and Ian Plimer, who were seen running away from the scene of the crime.