IT came direct from Kevin Rudd's mouth: the Labor Party cannot commit to ratify a post-2012 second Kyoto period unless Australia's conditions are met.
Having spent 10 years of worship at the symbolic altar of Kyoto, Labor is suddenly selling a very different message. It is the opposite message: Kyoto has become conditional. Its sanctification is coming to an end.
The Australian - Labor sees the light on next Kyoto phase
Labor finally admits the Government was right all along
THE uncomfortable facts about climate change have forced Labor to admit the inconvenient truth about its own position on global warming. If Labor wins office, Mr Rudd may find himself in the same position for which Labor has long criticised the Howard Government, refusing to ratify a post-Kyoto agreement because it does not include developing nations such as China and India.
The Australian - Closing the climate change policy gap
KEVIN Rudd has tried to restore order to Labor's chaotic climate change policy by "absolutely" refusing to ratify the post-Kyoto agreement unless China and India sign on.
The Labor leader's climate change policies were thrown into disarray on Monday when Peter Garrett said it would not be a "deal breaker" for a Labor government if developing nations, such as China, did not accept binding targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The Australian - Rudd seeks climate control
"I DON'T know if global warming will destroy the earth, but it is already frying brains.
Check out Peter Garrett's.
Labor's environment spokesman has got the faith so bad - saying Labor would sign a deal to slash our emissions even if bigger countries wouldn't - that Labor's leader, Kevin Rudd, had to shoot him.
Which makes two frontbenchers that Rudd has executed for saying precisely what Rudd himself has said.
Now there's a sign of a leader who is making it up as he goes along, and is so hungry for power that he'll say anything and ditch anyone.
But it's also a sign that when it comes to global warming, Labor hasn't a clue how to make the huge but useless cuts in emissions it has promised without bleeding us dry.
What a farce."
Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun - Labor's beds are burning
Or if we're going to get religiously zealous aka Al Gore;
"By their works ye shall know them" Luke 13:26
I was interested to see the comment to the effect that developed countries must sign the Kyoto accord to show leadership.
Is this leadership "do as I say", or "do as I do"?
The records of the signatories in actually reducing emissions is not what I would call leadership. The examples that they are setting is that there is no real commitment to reducing CO2 emissions at all, in fact almost all have increased emissions.
If this is the justification for Australia to sign the Kyoto accord, then it is a falsehod.
It is also interesting that the only target that Labor has comitted to is for 2050, not 2012. I do not understand this.
If Labor wins, and sign the Kyoto acord, what will be their emission reduction target?
"By example shall you lead"
PP
One morning Garrett says absence of China and India was no "deal-breaker' to post-Kyoto agreement.
Rudd endorses that statement.
Later that night Garrett says developing country commitments were essential to post-Kyoto agreement.
Naa, that's not a backflip.
They're all getting worried. Fret. Fret. Fret.
Sky will fall in. You're all going to die. Interest rates will be 1000%.
Dearie me, Kev07 has said it is "absolutely fundamental" that developing nations sign up to Kyoto emissions targets....
is that a backflip?