Professor Garnaut thank you for joining us.
Good for you to be with me.
The GARNAUT report on climate change.
I beg your pardon?
It’s the GARNAUT report on climate change.
That’s what I said.
No, you said, “your report on climate change”.
Of course, but you are Professor Garnuat and is it not your report?
Yes, I am. I am PROFESSOR ROSS GARNAUT. And it’s MY report. Didn’t you see the cover?
I did.
Looks good doesn't it?
Yes, lovely. Tell me, why didn't you only publish the report on-line? A lot of paper must have been used in printing so many copies of the report.
But there wouldn't have been a cover!
Quite. Your report says…
The GARNAUT report says…
As you wish. The Garnaut report says that…
You’re not quite getting it. It’s like playing a wind instrument. First, one must inhale, deeply, and, then, as you come to “Garnaut” one must exhale from the lower diaphragm, much in the manner of a member of the brass section before undertaking a particularly important and vital phrase of the piece. A trumpeter, for example…
A first trumpet? A solosit, perhaps?
Quite so. One inhales, deeply, and then exhales with great force as one speaks, with emphasis all on the initial word of the title. Like so, “the GARNAUT report on climate change”. After all, with a subject as complex and diabolical as this, it’s important we get the basics right. For how can we get the policy right if we can’t even understand the most important factor at the heart of the report? The report upon which the country's future depends.
And the most important factor at the heart of the report, I’m sorry, of the GARNAUT report…
…on climate change
Yes, the GARNAUT report on climate change, upon which the whole nation depends, the most important factor at the heart of which... is?
ROSS GARNAUT, Professor.
Professor Garnaut, we’re grateful for your time.
Yes. You are.
