Some experts believe it could be 2080 before the effects of carbon emission reduction can be truly assessed and that’s taking into account the virtual certainty that Kevin will be an addition to carbon emissions before them.

It would be nice to think that current affairs in 2080 will have a familiar feel about them like the LNP in Queensland still seeking a federal seat for Peter Dutton, the government still grappling with Wayne’s debts and deficits, Obama still promising to close Gitmo and Malcolm’s approval rating falling to an asterisk.

It is possible that by 2080 global warming will be more perspiration than aberration? Many Aussies could be cooling their heels in Antarctica waiting in vain for the ETS to take effect.

Temperatures in Australia could have become so hot that Perisher Valley is a nudist colony and girls can no longer enjoy going to the hottest place in town with guys who have the hots for them.

By this time Kevin could be capped and traded from the annals of history for introducing an ETS which failed miserably, ignoring nuclear power which had proved outstandingly successful all over the world and spending billions on clean coal to discover its about as viable as a clean joke about John Della Bosca.

There could even be Global Warming Remembrance Day when effigies of Kevin are burnt on top of bonfires and a picture of him is placed by the $100 E-tag collection point on Sydney Harbour Bridge as a reminder of the terrible toll he had taken.

On the other hand temperatures in the Australian of 2080 could be similar to today. A Kevin Thanksgiving public holiday could commemorate his leadership in inspiring his country and the world to become cleaner more pristine places free from carbon emissions, neo-liberals, Malcolm, Wilson Tuckey, Barnaby Joyce and numerous other polluting old farts.

It is interesting to speculate whether in the event of the ETS working the 2080 Aussies would acknowledge the selfless sacrifices made by their predecessors in 2009/10 to ensure they would never experience the same unemployment and rocketing power prices, the fruitless search for green jobs and the endless ranting from Kevin and Penny.

Sad to say they will probably see us as the recession they had to have.

A recent learned thesis argues that the human race is unlikely to last to 2080. Prolonged exposure to the greenhouse effect could infect human kind with the tomato virus rendering us scarlet and full of pips in trusses.

Hopefully 2009 will not be remembered as the year when the UN Conference in Copenhagen to tackle global warming experienced a failure in its solar heating system and most of the delegates had to be treated for hypothermia.

Perhaps it will take until 2080 for the world to wake up to the fact that global warming is simply nature’s way of supplying an abundant source of renewable solar energy.