Australian Climate Madness: Wong - it's Kangaroo-gate

Climate Change Minister Penny Wong goes into reverse gear to try and rescue the Government's AGW agenda from "Kangaroo-gate"...

Act or the planet is at peril: new study

THE world will have to take drastic action within two years to reduce greenhouse-gas pollution if it is to avoid the worst effects of climate change, a new British study warns.

Weeks before leaders meet in Poland to discuss the next international treaty on cutting emissions, the scale of risk from failing to act rapidly is spelt out by the British Meteorological Office's Hadley Centre.

The centre, which has a reputation for being cautious, recommends cutting greenhouse gas emissions much more quickly than Australia's climate change review, conducted by Professor Ross Garnaut.

The Met Office study shows that cutting emissions by 3 per cent a year from 2010 offers the only hope of avoiding a global temperature rise of more than two degrees - recognised as the threshold beyond which the worst impacts of sea-level rise and drought become a significant risk.