Age: AUSTRALIA has squandered the chance of responding slowly to climate change and cannot wait for other countries to act, according to Ross Garnaut. Speaking in Adelaide yesterday on the second day of a week of nationwide public forums, the author of the draft report on climate change said Australia faced a compressed timetable for introducing an emissions trading scheme in 2010 because it had squandered its opportunity for a staged start-up by not acting six or 10 years …