Targets have been set, notwithstanding the only reliable measure of global temperature trends, the NASA satellite data, showing obstinately stable temperatures since readings began in 1978. This is notwithstanding the breathless ABC and SBS propaganda documentaries on climate change that infect our living rooms. The Kyoto Conference in 1997 set 'firm' targets for emission reductions. But it is inconceivable that the US Congress will endorse any measure with adverse economic impacts. Moreover, developing countries, where most of the growth in emissions will occur, are also adamantly opposed to accepting greenhouse targets.
Governments sign solemn treaties.
They just as readily break them. The latest example is to be seen in Germany. Energy, and more specifically, electricity is the key to future reductions. Nuclear is the most greenhouse free sources of energy production, but is conspicuously absent from any Australian greenhouse saving measures. Such a tax impost would transform the economics of electricity generation.