Australia accused of cooking carbon books

[Matilda]

"The Australian Government has been accused of accounting fraud in the reporting of its carbon emissions.

By ignoring a massive rise in polluting gases from the agricultural and forestry industries, Australia has managed to make its overall emissions seem much lower than they actually are.

Under the Kyoto Protocol, Australia is allowed to increase carbon emissions by 8 per cent compared to 1990 levels.

But figures supplied to the United Nations earlier this year show that between 1990 and 2007, Australia's real carbon emissions actually rose by 82 per cent."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/14/2770326.htm


We knew Rudd wasn't serious when we saw his ETS legislation, but this is worse than I thought. The Government is
making no attempt to deal with climate change at all.

The only thing that can save Labor on this is that the Coalition is worse.

How embarrassing for Australia at this time!