Rudd talks climate change with Gore

Source: The Guardian

Australia's plans to join the fight against global warming were underscored on Tuesday when the country's new leader, Kevin Rudd, said he had talked to the leading climate change campaigner Al Gore.

Rudd, whose Labor party swept to a decisive win over the outgoing conservative prime minister, John Howard, at the weekend, has already decided to ratify the Kyoto pact limiting greenhouse gas emissions, overturning a key policy of his predecessor, who refused to endorse the agreement.

The 50-year-old new leader revealed that the former US vice-president Mr Gore called him yesterday to congratulate him on his election triumph, and that the two men talked about global warming and climate change.

"'G'day, Kevin?' that's what he started by saying," Rudd told reporters. I've taught Al how to say g'day. As you know, with some of our American friends, it's very hard to get it quite right."

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,,2217749,00.html

I've considered it before but now I REALLY want to move ...

of both happiness for the Australian people, and the world that Rudd was elected, and a sad envy that we Americans are a country standing alone with a Dictator who terrorizes the world.

Thanks for the thread, sabra.:thumbsup: