Restarted US-China climate talks have wrapped up with the Aussie equivalent of a big yeah/nah… Beijing has sent US presidential envoy John Kerry home with no new promises to reduce emissions. China burns more coal than the rest of the world combined, and Kerry had been looking for “specific actions” that would “move the ball”. But while he spent 3 days chewing the fat with his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua, he didn’t score a meeting with President Xi Jinping. And in the diplomatic equivalent of a serious side-eye, Xi gave a speech this week while Kerry was still in the country, insisting China would take climate action at its own pace and not be dictated to by outsiders. Meanwhile, the world just measured the hottest 2 weeks on record, and the heat-frying parts of the Northern Hemisphere are set to sizzle for a few more days yet…