People need to remember that the Kyoto Protocol is a racket jointly dreamed up by the EU and the developing countries. If we burn a kilo of coal, we get the blame for the CO2. If we sell a kilo to Japan, and they burn it, we still get the blame. If the South Africans sell the kilo to Japan, and they burn it, no-one gets the blame. If the EU burns vast amounts of oil imported from the Middle East, no-one gets the blame. No wonder that Australia, according to Kyoto, has the highest rate of CO2 emmission per head in the world.

What a lot of crap. Thank heavens Howard is having nothing to do with it.

" If we sell a kilo to Japan, and they burn it, we still get the blame."

Cobblers. They get the blame if they burn it.

Just India and China have more than one third of the world's pop.Who is going to tell them to stop burning fossil fuels.Once people have tasted a good living standard ,it is almost impossible to reverse this trend without some cataclysmic event to jolt us back to reality.

The world has far too many people that can be supported to our living standards.

So what do we do,wait until climate change becomes irrevesibly catastrophic and then do something,or eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may die?

It just all seems to be in the too hard basket.