UN climate chief Christiana Figueres calls for global action amid NSW bushfires

Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Ms Figueres also criticised the Federal Government's so-called Direct Action policy on climate change, saying it may prove more expensive than a carbon price.

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The Government has vowed to scrap the carbon-pricing scheme and instead pursue a plan that involves a $3 billion emissions reduction fund.

"They're going to have to pay a very high political price and a very high financial price," Ms Figueres said.

"The route that they are choosing to get to the same target that the previous government had could be much more expensive for them and for the [Australian] population."



Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-22/un-climate-chief-warns-of-nsw-27doom-and-gloom27/5036814

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Thinking Australians are already linking the unseasonable NSW bushfires to global warming - sure, we get bushfires somewhere in Australia every summer, but not normally of this severity so early in the season. Summer hasn't even started yet! We know that something has changed our weather patterns, but Tony Abbott and his cronies have their heads buried in idealogical sand and refuse to recognise any science other than that of sceptics who've been discredited by the wider scientific community.

A lesson to us all not to let people motivated by idealogy rather than logic and facts ever take over the running of our countries!

I will probably be dead and gone before the worst hits the world, but my children will still be here, and I care about what lies ahead for them. Sadly, it seems that most politicians and corporate leaders care only about short-term gain and can't even spare a thought for their own families and their future well-being.