Yesterday Flora went down the road for a chat with our deep-green neighbor, Professor Percival.   She hoped this would earn green points for her in the Leafy-Green Ladies Circle. She came back agog: “Our professor is flying business class to Canberra hoping to get on the climate cavalcade going to a conference in Paris soon.  He says they have this important job to prepare the secret first draft of a new international treaty to save the world from your wicked coal-mining mates.” I said they should put them all to work underground. Later, I complained to our sensible neighbour, Fred McNally, about all this waste on wasteful travel. But Fred had a totally different view. “It was not a bunch of airborne academics who concocted the Kyoto land grab that stopped me from feeding mulga to starving sheep – it was climate industry busybodies at their desks.  Better if the whole green industry is kept in the air flying, or sipping...(Read Full Post)