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Australian politics cools off on climate change
2013-02-04 18:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In 2007, a tyro Australian opposition leader called Kevin Rudd held a summit in which he labelled climate change the "great moral challenge of our generation" and, rather optimistically, added "we should be at a stage in this country where climate change is beyond politics". Within months, Rudd swept to power in a landmark election that deposed John Howard, the long-term conservative prime minister and climate-change curmudgeon. Australia, one of the world's leading per capita emitters and the...
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