We're twice as mad as Europe about cutting emissions Tim Wilson shows that warmist Labor is twice as stupid as even Europe about cutting the emissions it swears are heating the world dangerously: WHILE increasing our carbon tax bill, at last December's climate change summit in Doha the Gillard government committed to cutting emissions by more than twice as much as comparable countries. The headline story from the summit was that Canada, Japan, New Zealand and Russia walked away from the Kyoto Protocol... But not much scrutiny was applied to those who stayed inside the tent, such as Australia... Despite appearances that Europe's 80 per cent of 1990 emissions targets is more generous than Australia's 95 per cent, analysis of business-as-usual projections shows Europe's is only 23 per cent and Australia's 47 per cent off projections for 2020 emissions levels. So Australia has offered to cut emissions by more than double the rate of Europe. That will cost, of course. Money, jobs... And for what?