Guardian: In Australian Prime Minister-in-waiting Kevin Rudd's eyes, climate change is the "great moral, environmental and economic challenge of our age" or at least it was back in 2007 when he beat the conservative Liberal leader John Howard in a general election.
Rudd's entourage had barely unpacked his gear at the Prime Ministerial Lodge, than he was off to sign the Kyoto Protocol which Howard had described as "next to useless" because of the conspicuous absence of the US and China on the list of signatories....