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Source: The Daily Green
Prominent climate scientists criticized the Australian government's top climate adviser on Tuesday, saying his recommended targets for carbon emissions were too weak and would not help avoid catastrophic climate change.
Climate adviser Ross Garnaut has urged the government to cut Australian Greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent on 2000 levels by 2020, and to set a carbon price of A$20 ($16.25) a ton in the first years of carbon trading in Australia from mid-2010.
"That won't be good enough if Australia is wanting to minimize the impact of climate change on Australia and on the rest of the world," Melbourne University professor of meteorology David Karoly told Australia radio on Tuesday.
The criticism comes as a new poll found 88 percent of Australians support the centre-left Labor government's moves to curb carbon emissions, blamed for global warning, with 61 percent saying Canberra should act even if other countries do nothing.
The Newspoll in the Australian newspaper also found 58 percent would pay more for energy to help slow global warming.
Australia is the world's 16th biggest carbon polluter and produces about 1.5 percent of global emissions. But Australia is the fourth largest per-capita emitter, with five times more carbon pollution per person than China.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who won power last November, has promised to set up carbon trading in Australia by mid 2010, covering 75 percent of the economy, to provide a financial incentive for business to clean up their pollution.
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