"The Appetite comes before the eating "Late-line interview with...

"The Appetite comes before the eating "

Late-line interview with Leading climate change expert and advisor to German Govt. , Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber after recently attending climate scientists meeting in Melbourne .

http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2011/s3268037.htm

Upshot - continue as normal , 4 degree temp rise by end of century .
7 to eventually 70 metres sea rise .

Australia's fledgling carbon pricing efforts will have little effect in real terms for a while , but creates a price signal .

Germany , repeals Nuclear option with a radically changed new energy policy supported by %90 of the populace with a pledge to reduce carbon emissions by %40 (from 1990 levels) by 2020 .

Despite being presently the economic crutch of Europe (my words ) , Germany has practically full employment and %4 GDP growth - along with this new radical energy policy and is looking for partners in this new journey.

In general terms , its partners with such changing appetites along with a carbon pricing system , that ESG is well placed to satisfy in the interim ( bridging energy )before renewable's become more feasible .