THE policy of both major parties is to reduce Australia's carbon dioxide emissions by 5 per cent by 2020, even though both know that, in Jason Fong's words, it will make ''negligible'' difference to global temperatures.
So the question is, why bother? If the key goal of global climate policy is to at least cap temperature increases, what difference can Australian action make? There is a factual answer to the question, and there's a context that is more complicated.
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