Labor's Rudd sniggers at the thought of all the dupes he's exploiting.

Carter better sleep with one eye open. They might snatch him in the middle of the night - perform a lobotomy on him and then he will be all smiling and happy instead of causing trouble by pointing out the truth about the biggest scam in history. It worked in the book "With Folded Hands" when the robots did it.

"... climate change is potentially a very real problem — not manmade climate change, but the natural kind that actually happens."

Quite. I am a bit worried about increasing pollution - CO2 is not all that healthy for animals, and even plants have limits. But given the choice between six inches of water and six hundred feet of ice in my neighborhood I'll take the water.

And given that Old Sol is acknowledged eve by the likes of IPCC politicians to contribute some 500 degrees Fahrenheit to the temerature of our planet, I do not understand those who say even a 1 degree change can only be attributed to humans.

There are many things which contribute in varying levels to our climate, and we humans probably are one if minor, but the political/green "solutions" to date are what computer types call "vaporware" - announcing something today as if it were accomplished when in fact it is under develpoment and may not make it further than a press release.

Noted that many global warming proponents are trying silence the skeptiks in anyway they know how including perhapes sending them to concentration camps for imediate brainwashing by the earth worshipping pagan scumballs HANG CAPTIAN PLANET CRUCIFI GAIA

Well, good luck with that. I've had some recent discussions with several liberals about global warming, and trying to point out anything that conflicts with their religious belief in climate change is like trying them to admit that 2+2=5. They are so convinced, so sure they are right, real temperatures and rational thought aren't going to change their minds. At all. Nothing will. If they have power, global warming will find it's way into policy and those who cause global warming (in their tightly closed minds), like big oil, will be punished.

Unfortunately, Rudd has these scam artistes on his side:

10-years absent global warming causing monster waves in Australia

Australia's coastline is increasingly being battered by extreme waves that are driven in part by climate change, government scientists say.

Scientists from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have identified an emerging threat - monstrous waves that have increasingly pummelled Australia's southern shores.

These ferocious conditions are associated with the passage of extra-tropical storms through the south of the continent.

Researchers believe that a shifting climate could be partly to blame.

They have said that Australia is vulnerable to an accelerated version of global warming, which is causing serious droughts and sudden severe storms.

This vast, arid land was recently listed by the United Nations as a climate change "hotspot".

Australia needs all the help it can get on that front as it is one of the world's worst per capita emitters of greenhouse gases.

Andrew Bolt on the climate change issue: very interesting.

@ Scott: "Australia needs all the help it can get on that front as it is one of the world's worst per capita emitters of greenhouse gases."

Key word being "per capita." In real terms Australia emits about 1.5% of total greenhouse gases. Even a halving of the per-capita rate with the accompanying radical changes to the entire lifestyles of the entire population of Australia, would make only a 0.75% difference to total emissions.

Tell this to a liberal, though (I've tried), and they'll simply parrot the response that "the costs of inaction will be higher!!111!!!!!!222!!!!" and "Australia needs to set a good example so other countries like India and China will follow suit!"

Yeah, right. Requesting a slightly more realistic assessment of the benefits of crippling the entire economy in order to affect precisely zero change to world emmissions will result in a "does not compute" rant.

Oops. Linky no worky.

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column_garnaut_turns_up_heat_on_rudd