Age: THE November 2007 federal election was held a week after the release of the final report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found that evidence of global warming was “unequivocal” and its effects could be “abrupt or irreversible”. Kevin Rudd, then opposition leader, said: “The panel is sending out a very clear warning to the leaders of this country and of the world to act now on climate change.” Now, more than halfway through the Rudd Government’s term, Australians have …