Throw another roo on the barbie - Epicure - Entertainment - theage.com.au

The only roo meat I could buy fresh within five kilometres of home was at a Coles supermarket. Supplied by South Australian game meat wholesaler Macro Meats, it was packed like any other supermarket meat. The difference was the spiel written on the back of the container.

It detailed the health and environmental advantages of eating kangaroo meat, including the fact that kangaroos produce lower levels of greenhouse gases than cattle and sheep.

In Professor Ross Garnaut's final report on tackling climate change, he said that the carbon benefits of eating kangaroo meat could be one of Australia's great contributions to the global problem.

The UN attempts to scare us with a press release; anyone who's ever seen a Charlie Brown cartoon hears Charlie's teacher

"The figures clearly underscore the urgency for the UN negotiating process to make good progress in Poznan and move forward quickly in designing a new agreement to respond to the challenge of climate change," UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer said in a press release.
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Scientists have sounded ever louder warnings about greenhouse gases, saying they trap heat from the Sun instead of letting it rebound into space. As a result, rising temperatures are inflicting perceptible changes to ice and snow and could badly damage the climate system in coming decades.

There is no expert consensus of what is considered a safe level, but many climatologists have pleaded for emissions to peak within the next 10 to a dozen years and then fall afterwards to peg warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.