Ballarat Courier: THE announcement by Professor Ross Garnaut that Australia should seek to reduce its carbon emissions by 10 per cent by 2020 came as something of a surprise. It was surprising because it was modest, particularly in light of Prof Garnaut’s earlier findings in which he said Australia, without a global effort to counter climate change, would be profoundly affected and suffer through reduced agricultural production and increased cost of supplying water to urban areas. So the …