Climate change is real and urgent, and Australia must have emissions trading in place in 2010 or face a catastrophe.
That's the message from the nation's top climate change adviser Ross Garnaut, who is sticking to his guns on the need for drastic action to counter global warming.
Tough-talking Prof Garnaut brooked no talk of delays or cop-outs as he launched his draft report on Friday.
"Climate change is a diabolical policy problem," he told the National Press Club.
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