Cooling On Warming ... Despite KRudd!

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1. Date: 2008-11-21 00:04:42
Subject: Cooling On Warming ... Despite KRudd!
From: "nbzoo" <n...@...com> Search message by this author

November 21 2008

Kevin Rudd's excuse for forcing Australia to slash its puny emissions -
hurting our growth without cutting temperatures - is that it will inspire
the countries that count do the same.

Really?

Try telling that to APEC leaders this weekend:

Climate change is fading as a priority in the Pacific Rim as the gloomy
state of the global economy takes precedence, a survey of opinion leaders
showed Wednesday.

The Pacific Economic Cooperation Council, a non-governmental group, released
an annual survey of leaders in government, business and media ahead of a
summit in Peru of 21 Asia-Pacific leaders.

Twenty-four percent of some 400 opinion leaders surveyed said the top
priority for Asia-Pacific leaders should be addressing the US-bred financial
crisis, far outweighing other issues.

Last year, the top priority was reviving stalled global trade negotiations,
at 12 percent, but climate change came close at eight percent. Global
warming did not even figure among the top priorities this year.

As for Rudd's other grand dream for Asia and the Pacific:

KEVIN Rudd's vision for an Asia-Pacific Community modelled on the European
Union is shrinking, with special envoy Richard Woolcott set to advise that
there is little appetite in the region for a new organisation.

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Warmest Regards

Bonzo