New Zealand Herald: For a nation that has shown a marked reluctance to engage with the campaigns to mitigate climate change, at least at the highest political levels, the endorsement of Tim Flannery as Australian of the Year last year is a remarkable personal tribute. But no one has done more to bring the issues to the top of the national agenda than this scientist-turned-polemicist. Flannery has also chilled the blood of Australians by pointing out their country’s environmental fragility is so extreme …