Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Wong suggests public wants early poll | Herald Sun
CLIMATE Change Minister Penny Wong has refused to say whether Labor would like to fight an early election on climate change, but she believes it's "very clear" the public wants action.
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The move by Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull to try and defer a vote on emissions trading laws until after global climate change talks in December was weak-willed, the climate change minister said.

"What has occurred today is an extraordinary act of weakness, an act of surrender by Malcolm Turnbull, surrendering to the climate change sceptics in his own party room."
US energy secretary urges action on climate change - Forbes.com
The U.S. energy secretary said Tuesday that he's had enough of talk about fighting global warming. He wants action and has pledged that America will act first to help move along the talk.
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"The U.S. will move, inevitably it will move first, as a more developed country we should be moving first, and I hope China will follow," he said.

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