Howard years saw 42% increase in carbon emissions

That will be his legacy.

clipped from www.smh.com.au AUSTRALIA has been named as one of the top three world greenhouse gas "sinners" by a European environmental report, ranking it with the United States and Saudi Arabia for failing its responsibilities towards the global environment. "The worst climate sinners are Saudi Arabia, the US and Australia, which not only have extremely high and mounting emission levels, but also employ insufficient and inadequate climate policies," the director of the Climate Action Network, Matthias Duwe, said at a press conference at the United Nations talks in Bali. Australia ranked behind China, Russia and India because of its policies during the Howard years, the report says.