Kevin Rudd's taking climate change seriously was one of many ways he differentiated Labor from the Coalition in the recent election.
Henry and his editor get belted from time to time by the last of the climate change hold-outs, who nowadays hold their meetings in telephone boxes. The precautionary principle does not do it for these climate change deniers. Refugees from the Age of Aquarius, any cost is too much cost, it seems, and bugger the next generation.
But hark! An attack from the left. Clive Hamilton has lashed out for Crikey! Lashed out at Australia's most saintly, fair-minded and public spirited economist, Professor Ross Garnaut. Hamilton's charming headline is "Garnaut loses the plot".
Just what is the relevant "plot"? The best summary I can find is Hamilton's article is: "... he has come up with a radical solution. Let’s have one target, a carbon budget aimed at a 60 per cent cut by 2050
