Australians are fatigued by hysteria and exageration.

They do not want their government to take ambitious steps to tackle climate change.

Over 50% of Australians now believe climate change is natural, and do not believe we can control the climate

"we think that the most important question is not whether GCMs can produce credible estimates of future climate, but whether climate is at all predictable in deterministic terms." (Global Climate Models)

People do not want to subsidise wild plans for renewable ventures where the principle shareholders appear to have powerful lobby group (unions) to influence politicians - the Union movement is the biggest investor in wind farms, through superannuation funds, similarly with desal plants.

Yes I believe we have changed the climate,by land clearing and other means,but to sheet it all home as this person does to CO2 and CO2 only is just a farce. Cancun today were hand wringing about how they could get wealthy countries to subsidize and give money to poor countries .. that's what it is all about, socialism, not climate, climate is just the vehicle.

If Australians overwhelmingly wanted to reduce emissions or whatever, we would have overwhelmingly voted in the Greens .. we didn't .. so get the message, it's not important in the scheme of things to your average Australian.

What is going on in Cancun is dangerous for the whole world as it is promoting a world Government designed to undemocratise the West and eventually plunge the world into poverty and chaos.

The sooner this whole Global Warming hoax is over, the better.

Nice work Matthew.

I agree that Australia cannot have any credibility in global discussions on climate change if it takes no effective action itself.

It is increasingly obvious that achieving an effective international agreement depends on emission reductions being undertaken by industrialised nations, not just promised. Action in Australia is well overdue, and it must extend beyond the single mechanism of a carbon price to include a comprehensive suite of policies to reduce emissions, draw down excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and to adapt and prepare for further changes to the climate.

It is this sort of action that will not only assist in eliciting cooperation from other global partners but as you say it will also help position Australia in the increasingly competitive global marketplace of clean, sustainable industries. It will also improve our energy and national security and provide considerable health and social benefits.

I believe the new name for this resort is Cancon.

Regards
DKit

<<Ministers, negotiators, lobbyists and activists will work at a frenetic pace to advance (or thwart) an international treaty on climate change.>>

Not sure many Australians will be too happy that, “lobbyists and activists” from wherever are involved in policy that may negatively impact us.

<< A country that has enjoyed rapid growth of its domestic manufacturing capacity over the past few years, it is China that will make 43% of the world’s solar panels—and 39% of its wind turbines—in 2010>>

Mathew, I don’t suppose the Chinese use renewable energy to manufacture on this scale do they?

I thought that the meeting in Cancun was a European centric push to give them a $100bn a year slush fund to give our money to poorer Nations? I could be wrong?

I just look at the financial mess that Europe has created and wonder why we would even give them loose change from the cookie jar?

Keep up the rage anyway, I love seeing the Jesuits squirm. It’s a bit like the Pope sanctioning the selective benefits of condoms; next you will find us a way to be “a little bit pregnant”.

Wriggle, wriggle

Mr Wright provides us with an eminently sensible article making yet another call for action by this country to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and put itself in a position of being able to demand that others do the same.

The only thing Australians are fatigued about are climate change deniers who still argue about the role of CO2 in global warming, despite its effects having been known and well understood for over a century.

The majority of Australians have long realised that government action to reduce our emissions is no longer something to be debated. It is demanded and rightly so. Exasperation of the electorate with a vacillating government and an Opposition which wants our taxes used to pay business to stop greenhouse gas emissions has resulted in a Senate controlled by the Greens and the Reps controlled by Independent MP’s.

The view that efforts to curb global warming is all a wicked conspiracy to undo western civilisation, create world government, rob us of our democracy and all the other rubbish we read from the same OLO contributors, should make us doubt the their sanity, rather than views expressed in the article.