No, really not. Australia is not being taken to task for several reasons: 1) Unlike China, Australia was a signatory to Kyoto (actually, I'm not 100% sure if

No, really not. Australia is not being taken to task for several reasons: 1) Unlike China, Australia was a signatory to Kyoto (actually, I'm not 100% sure if China was a signatory or not, but at any rate they didn't have binding targets). 2) Unlike the US, Australia actually met its Kyoto targets. 3) Everyone knows that most of Australia's economic activity is geared towards exports of primary produce to the rest of the world - as already noted, Australia's own population is small, certainly not big enough to consume even a tenth of what is being produced. As such, at Kyoto it was agreed to not heavily limit Australian emissions, as these emissions would more fairly be placed on the books of the consumer countries. 4) Australia was willing and able to play ball in Copenhagen, unlike the Chinese. 5) Australia does not have very much diplomatic clout, so it is not being held accountable for the failure of diplomacy, as the US is. 6) And, finally, at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what Australia does per capita, as its population is simply too small to make a difference on a global scale - even if we accept the dodgy figure of Australia emitting 11 times more per capita than the Chinese, that still means that China is emmitting more than 5 times more than Australia. Using more realistic figures, China is emitting about 10 times more than Australia, and the US is emitting nearly 20 times more. And that is why no-one is pointing the finger at Australia.