Wanted to comment, but couldn’t open the report, it kept coming up with “this page has expired”. or something similar. I did get to look at the executive summary from another site, (unaccountably it was missing a page as I recall) and I did hear the Professor being interviewed on radio.
My initial impression of what the Professor was saying was that cutting our emissions in Australia was what we had to do to address the challenge of climate change. I was worried that there might be a bit more to it than that. That the rest of the world could ignore it and our actions would be ineffective. The bits that I heard on the radio had lead me in that direction, but the executive summary fragments that I saw seemed to say that we would tie our actions to those of the USA and the Europeans and that they’d already made suitable noises and that we were bedding down in their camp.
This still leaves out Africa, India, China etc and I wonder if aynone can sketch it out for me, or give a reliable link to his draft/interim/report. OK, I understand that he said that the situation of our resource use and influence on climate meant that we needed to make some drastic changes, but what changes will they be, apart from cutting our GHG emissions by x% by 2050? Will they be economic, social, technological ... ? Political?
By the way, I found his radio interview, Sat morning (?) ABC, interesting. Anyone out there with a bit of an overview of it all?
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