'Roasted, toasted, fried and grilled' - Lagarde

Christine Lagarde.

Minimising serious debate about climate change risks and solutions looks likely to be a key feature of the Australian media’s approach to the 2013 election campaign. There are however two powerful reasons why this silence is profoundly disturbing and misguided.

Evidence of the likelihood and risks of global warming beyond 4 degrees continues to grow. As IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde bluntly notes: “unless we take action on climate change future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled”.

These are the opening paragraphs from a story in The Conversation headed: “Looking back from 2030: how the climate war was won”.