Somehow this just says it all about the disconnect between our political processes and those operating in the natural world, which is the nub of the problem at Copenhagen.

Also noteworthy is a Think Tank here funded by a shopping centre mogul - no one in big media comments on that source of funding - with a poll that people in Australia ‘don’t really care that much about the issue anymore’. (Because it was all an insincere ALP Big Union wedge to defeat Work Choices?)

And according to chameleon thespian and oxygen thief Bob Carr we should just go nuclear anyway (so Macquarie Bank can invest?): Never mind the merits just be sure to run interference on The Greens starting to get significant media traction yesterday with their alternative legislative package.

You know, why worry about a real solutions based package that skewers special interests and promotes the public interest when we’ve got our big party backsides to look after first? Public interest never worried Bob Carr on forest woodchipping for 20 years, Mega Tip waste volumes, water and river degradation, escalating land clearing rates, Homebush Bay dioxin, Botany Bay degradation, repeal of the 1979 Planning laws, expansion of coal mines, tollway proliferation. But he’s ‘reliable’ on nukes.

Also he’s got this big bridge he wants you to buy.

Sounds about right. Look for Australia to push a forest preservation clause so we can pay a token amount for PNG to not be logged and therefore claim many carbon offsets.

Let’s just hope he doesn’t commit any self-harm when it all turns into a farce.