Empty suits co$t money:
KRudd meets US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington. Mrs Clinton confirmed she will visit Australia in November.
He and Mrs Clinton had discussed the flood crisis in Pakistan after he had visited the country’s stricken areas on his way to Washington, and offered $40 million in Australian relief aid.
KRudd promises Clinton ‘a really good time’
Mrs Clinton met Mr Rudd after her return from Middle East peace talks.
KRudd will attend UN meetings over the next week on global sustainability, climate change, nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear test bans. (The Australian)
Update: White House: Global Warming Out, ‘Global Climate Disruption’ In
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Looks like Kevni is a little behind the times: John Holdren, one of Obama’s czars,  has  determined that ‘global warming’ and ‘climate change’ are now superseded by “global climate disruption”, no s#*t!

(FOX News) From the administration that brought you “man-caused disaster” and “overseas contingency operation,” another terminology change is in the pipeline.
The White House wants the public to start using the term “global climate disruption” in place of “global warming” — fearing the latter term oversimplifies the problem and makes it sound less dangerous than it really is.
White House science adviser John Holdren urged people to start using the phrase during a speech last week in Oslo, echoing a plea he made three years earlier. Holdren said global warming is a “dangerous misnomer” for a problem far more complicated than a rise in temperature. More…