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meekly submit to all these new tax measures and regulations required to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions then there will be runaway global warming and an environmental catastrophe. The end of the world is nigh!

5. The pollies and Greens expound the idea that they alone can stop global warming! There are no scientific measurements to support this warming idea or that we can do anything to stop it even if it existed. In reality, over the last decade no warming has been measured and a cool period is predicted, even with presumably rising atmospheric CO2 levels. Also, the inevitable descent into another Ice Age is a long overdue possibility. So who do you believe and trust?

6. Before we disembowel our present world economy and spend trillions of dollars in the process it would be prudent to have a worldwide debate on whether or not we've got the underlying science right and to highlight the uncertainties.

So, starting from this personal background understanding, I shall comment on the wisdom or otherwise, of what governments are doing, or should be doing, about climate change, mainly from an Australian perspective.

1. Governments are dependent on input of reliable information and advice upon which to formulate policies, if thought needed. This is the primary the cause of the present debacle. Why should the UN's IPCC be the only source (i.e., have a monopoly position) for supplying the Australian government with climate change information? The IPCC and the associated Kyoto Protocol are pretty radical political organizations whose influence I believe needs to be curtailed. There are many other organizations and think tanks of scientists around the world that could provide useful information and alternative policy suggestions on climate change but are ignored by Governments, probably because their ideas are not "politically correct".

2. Water, or the lack of it, is a serious problem in Australia in our present time of prolonged drought. It has happened before and eventually rains come and fill our dams, and then there will be another drought, and so on. That's how Nature operates. No amount of "carbon emissions trading" and like policies will make one iota of difference. Our water shortage has nothing to do with the level of CO2 in the atmosphere! Such a bogus idea is another red-herring promoted by the Greens.

3. In some of our major Australian cities plans are afoot, or in action, to build desalination plants to provide a reliable supply of potable water, to boost

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