Carbon emmssions must be cut by 80 per cent: scientist
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Despite urgent global warming warnings, there's little hope that December's Copenhagen climate change meeting will secure an international agreement.
Even domestic measures are subject to bitter politics and trade-offs, like the Australian government's plans to cut emissions by five-to-15 per cent by the year 2020. Even if such measures did pass, one expert says it'd be like giving aspirin to a cancer patient. He says nothing less than 80 per cent emissions cuts over the next ten years will avert catastophe.
The attached audio is an extended version of the interview broadcast on Connect Asia.
Presenter: Linda Mottram, Canberra correspondent
Speakers: Dr Andrew Glikson from the Australian National University is an earth and paleo-climate scientist
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