Swept up by climate change tedium | The Daily Telegraph

AVAST and destructive force slammed into Australia last week. People ran for cover, but there was no avoiding it. And there's worse, far worse, to come. Professor Ross Garnaut's initial update of his 630-page 2008 climate change review is just the first of eight such exhausting, smothering new instalments. This category five snore-a-thon kicked off last Friday in Melbourne.

Possibly aware he was presenting the dullest, most pointless document in Australian history, Garnaut attempted to sex things up a bit. "If we are seeing an intensification of extreme weather events now," said the Rudd-appointed academic, "you ain't seen nothing yet."