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Abbott can only follow advice from the public servants and follow established protocol. If he handles it well it could help turn him into an international statesman.

And yet that particular episode was a display of reasoned debate with much of the audience being invited guests with some having opposing views on a number of subjects rather than just global warming. Suzuki was even proven wrong on one particular preconceived notion that he had.

So they say. It's interesting thinking about how humans will handle an ice age if there are any of us still around in thousands of years. That's where we have the advantage over other life forms. We have an imagination so will be able to prepare ourselves if we recognise it's coming. Live under...

Y2K bug? Yes I remember that as it involved a huge amount of work by people to mitigate it's effect. Much firmware had to be rewritten or hardware replaced. Software rewritten or replaced. I had to stop using my accounting software as the developers weren't interested in rewriting it. I had to...

I used to live in that part of the world and like Australia there are variations in weather patterns from year to year. Not every year was a white Christmas just like not every year had blizzards. Where I live now, in South Australia recent studies have drawn a link between our long dry periods...

No, many of them posit that we could only hope to reduce the warming trend with the carbon reduction targets that were set. They say the targets are too low. Anyway the UN has set a date of September next year for pre-discussion amongst world leaders about resetting the targets. Quote the...

No, the argument is that the global trend is that we are warming over the long term. Many scientists posit that cutting back on CO2 emissions will slow that trend.

True but in the context of the discussion here scoring points by nitpicking achieves little of value to the discussion.

Hydrocarbons, mostly.

That would depend on your definition of pollution. In the context of Greenhouse Emissions then releasing previously bound CO² molecules into the atmosphere by human endeavors could be considered pollution by some if the effect is adverse to the environment. Some use the terms Carbon Pollution...

IMHO many Australian's didn't mind spending money on reducing pollution when house prices were rising and their economic prospects looked rosy. In tougher economic times people tend to think short term. Bugger the future ramifications of not pricing carbon. If we get it wrong future generations...