Not such a great challenge for Rudd, after all

The "great moral and economic challenge of our time" has been washed down to number seven on Kevin Rudd's revised list of challenges:

Challenge number seven embraces food security, energy security and climate change. These are inter-related – the loss of arable land; the growing demand for energy resources from major emerging economies; the absence of a global price on carbon impeding the large-scale development of the renewable energy sector. For climate change in particular, the clock still ticks. This requires both global and national action.

Journalists should ask him if he was wildly exaggerating then or is a denier now.

(Thanks to reader Alan RM Jones. No comments during holiday.)