@David G: "I'll guarantee that, to a man and woman, they all have shares in armament manufacturers, oil and car companies, miners, etc, and operate trusts which avoid tax."

Who are these 'flat-earthers' of whom you speak? Are they perhaps people who ignore the obvious for a long time -- say, seventeen years or so -- because of a passionate conviction that can't be supported by the facts?

I have shares in oil and gas companies, because they make money. They make money because they supply people with what they want and need, at a price they can afford. I had quite a few shares in a couple of environmental companies once, but they both went broke. It's not that having shares in them drives my convictions, rather that the knowledge gained from research to justify my convictions determines what shares I buy.

How many shares did YOU have in Solyndra and its bankrupt colleagues, I wonder? No wonder you're cross...

PS: I certainly don't have money in a trust, and if I did, what would be wrong with legally avoiding tax? Do you front up eagerly at the Tax Office to hand over some extra dough as a reward for the Gillard government's brilliant achievements?

Lyn. Quoting Flannery is no way to introduce an article on climate change, the man is completely discredited on this topic. For you to DENY that this summer is nothing unusual, for you to DENY that 'isolated weather events' as witnessed over the past year are not connected to AGW, for you to DENY the lack of statistically significant temperature anomaly for the past 23 years then.... I am afraid that you are the denialist.

Lyn, you are another fraud backer who does not know the difference between climate and weather. There has been no global warming for fifteen years.

The global warming last century amounted to a paltry seven tenths of one degree.

All of Flannery’s predictions have turned out to be wrong, as reality has caught up to the prediction date. This is the clown who said that our dams would never fill again, because the rain would be insufficient.

The AGW Fraud is dead, and nonsense from people like you does not even make the corpse twitch.

As for Denial, there is no science to deny. There is no science which shows any effect of human emissions on climate. The IPCC, having no science, comes forward with a statement that it is “very likely”. About as likely as a CO2 increase in the atmosphere causing increased warming of the globe. Reality shows that it has not, despite all the failed predictions of the climate modelling.

A rise of 100 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere over the last 15 years has seen none of the predicted rise in temperature as asserted by Gore, Hansen and the IPCC.

Gore, in his 90 minute film, told 35 lies. For years he had a cheer squad which assembled whenever he appeared in public, to chant “Liar” and “Fraud”.

You have no reputable science to back anything that you have said, Lyn

The alarmists certainly seem to have a lot of influence. Getting the CIA and the Pentagon to issue warning statements about the threat of Global Warming, and producing false satellite pictures of the shrinking ice caps and glaciers around the world must take a lot of organising.
The insurance companies make money out of assessing risks,I suppose that when they refuse to insure properties in some areas along the coast that they must be staffed by alarmists.

Thank you Lyn for writing what you did. I was well said.
I noticed that denialist ratbags on this list displayed their use sarcasm and rudeness. They learn northing because the latest research In the New scientist , American Scientist is ignored as well as other reputable sources