'Climate babble' seems never-ending

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ustralians are subjected to never-ending “climate babble”.

Treasurer, Joe Hockey, -
stealing his term
- Australia has become a
 nation of
global warming "leaners".

Listen to the government and Australia, and Australians, are climate mitigation champions – Environment Minister, Greg Hunt, confidently delivered that message just today.

Listen to climate change credentialed people from other parts of the world and Australia is a “free-rider”, contradicting Minister Hunt’s message.

To plagiarize Treasurer Joe Hockey’s phrase, when it comes to dealing with the dilemma of global warming, Australia is a “leaner” and we are leaving the “lifting” up to other countries.

Australians are among the world’s worst per-capita emitters of carbon dioxide and the situation has only worsened since the Abbott Government removed what it wrongly described as the “carbon tax”.

The judgement of Australians being “free-riders” is not parochial political view, rather a consideration of an international panel.

Environment Editor, The Sydney Morning Herald, Peter Hannam, has written about that in today Age in a story headed: “Australia singled out as a climate change 'free-rider' by international panel”.

We are a nation of 'Co2 leaners' when it comes to climate change

Joe  Hockey - he want's
Australians to be "lifters".

Australia is quite clearly a “leaner” when it comes to the world’s efforts to address climate change.

Efforts to “sell” the Coalition Government’s 2014 Budget drove Treasurer Joe Hockey to ask Australians to decide whether they were either “lifters” or “leaners”.

“Leaners” in Mr Hockey’s terms only worsened Australia’s budgetary situation and what we needed to be, again according to Mr Hockey, was a nation of “lifters”.

Many countries in the world are making determined efforts to reduce their respective carbon dioxide emissions, but Australia, considering our massive per capita contributions is doing almost nothing, so we are in effect “C02 leaners”.

An example of Australia’s token efforts is shown by Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop, who has rejected requests for Australia to become a “lifter” rather than a “leaner”.

A story in today’s Melbourne Age, headed: “Julie Bishop rejects UN request to strengthen Australian climate targets” tells of this blatant desire to ignore what is a planetary emergency and continue to lean on the efforts of others.