Col Rouge... Smile, you're on candid camera.

David Leigh "Col Rouge... Smile, you're on candid camera."

Not really sure what you mean

but I can understand how the exceptionalities of my life would make an appropriate topic for study ....

should I get my agent to contact you?

Ah David,

no peer revied literature of your global warming scientists predicted record colder autumns, record colder winters, record snows nor record floods.

They did predict endless drought, warmer summers, winters, autumns and springs.

David your comments about the current weather events only go to show that weather patterns are returning to what they were 30 years ago.

That's climate change in action. Climate changes ... in cycles... always has, always will. It's not a continous warming as you lot would have us believe.

The movement of the ocean currents in both hemispheres is a recurring natural historical event. It is not exclusively caused by climate change (Warming or cooling) as you assert. Again nothing peer reviewed about your claim.

Oh and David please ... rising sea levels. Well the latest peer reviewed literature tells us that as CO2 levels have risen sea levels have actually risen at a slower rate than they had with lower CO2 levels.

Explain that?

The weather and newer peer reviewed science is making claims of perpetual global warming look very very silly.

Imajulianutter, your so-called peer reviewed reports seem to be in opposition to the thousands of scientists globally, who have researched and worked tirelessly to warn the world of impending disasters. Of course Australia is different to the rest of the world. Australians (at least in the Abbott camp) are smarter, more informed and better able to advise global governments that the action they are taking is wrong and unnecessary. I am sure the UK and EU governments generally will be pleased to know that the billions spent on reforming their economies could have been saved and instead invested in fossil fuel energy production. There are some however, yourself included, that will look very silly if events like say, the seriously fractured section of the West Antarctic Ice Shelf (WAIS) should finally fall into the sea. The 3-metre rise in mean sea level should just about wipe out most Australian cities and possibly thousands of cities globally. I am sure also that the people living on the thousands of tiny islands around the world will thank you for your wise words and be comforted in the fact that it has nothing to do with climate change and is just a natural cycle. I wonder if your children and grandchildren will be as comforted when they are faced with an overcrowded world that looks much different to the one you inhabit. Still, as long as there are profits for large mining and energy companies the rest of the world can go to hell… Right?

David Leigh “the seriously fractured section of the West Antarctic Ice Shelf (WAIS) should finally fall into the sea. The 3-metre rise in mean sea level should just about wipe out most Australian cities and possibly thousands of cities globally.”

When it happens we should do something – until it does, since it will not “spontaneously melt, we should wait, watch and do what I have done…. Live on a hill

Real estate prices going the way they are…. I figure my plot of dirt will be worth a lot more after “the melt” than before

- I always thought those trendy Melbourne Dockland Apartments were a waste of money

Really David, from your comments, I can only observe,

your desperation is turning to hysteria...

btw you still have not explained your "Candid Camera" comment....

of course.. maybe you meant "Big Brother" is watching...

Who cares... I have never been intimidated by leftards type threats

better dead than red (and I will just take a few with me)

Very wise Col, hills are good places to live. It is not the melting that is the problem. The rock beneath the ice is warming, causing the under side to become smooth and lose its grip. This has stressed the whole ice sheet to the point of fracture and approximately half the sheet is in danger of breaking away. I tend to trust the scientists on the spot with their appraisal of the situation, rather than politicians and the major polluters. It could go at any time and if we are lucky will happen in 10 years or so. The problem is nobody actually knows. I would not be buying a canal estate home or any waterfront dwelling and as I live around 190 metres above sea level feel relatively safe. It is food supply that could be a worry, with much of the coastal plains in WA, Queensland and other states under food crops. Also the seepage into slightly higher land areas of salt water will have a serious impact on what we grow there. If you combine that single glacier with the many others under stress globally and couple that with the Greenland ice melt it adds up to a much higher sea level rise. The problem again, nobody is talking about falling ice, only gradual sea-level rise. Any one of the many incidents of slipping glaciers could have devastating impacts on coastal regions around the world. Stay high and keep dry.