World News Australia - Government backflip on Emissions

Earlier today, newspapers were reporting that the government had caved in to opposition demands to permanently exclude agriculture from an emissions trading scheme.

The Carbon Sense Coalition » Let’s Hear the Terms Before we Surrender in Copenhagen

In the near future, some 20,000 people are going to descend on Copenhagen to negotiate the terms of surrender of the industrialised west to the United Nations. Obviously no treaty is going to be “negotiated” by 20,000 people. Most are sightseers. Any negotiations will take place in secret meetings. Every day it becomes more obvious that the PM and the Opposition Leader either do not know what is in the drafts already agreed, or they are concealing it from the parliament and the people.

APEC scraps emission cut target in draft declaration

Singapore, Nov 15 (IANS) Leaders attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit here have scrapped a provision in their draft declaration pledging to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, an official said.
Yi Xianliang, counselor at the Treaty and Law Department of the Chinese foreign ministry, told a press conference here Saturday that the emission cut proposal was taken off from the draft declaration for fear that the binding provision might disrupt the climate change negotiations, Xinhua reported.

Flannery’s wages of fear | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

So how much is Alarmist of the Year Tim Flannery pulling for this endorsement? Add it to the books, the consultancies, the speeches, the backing of joy rides in space and now a government sinecure.