Just about everything the author used as an example is wrong;
The barrier reef is NOT dying, it is thriving; see Prof Ridd &
Jennifer Maronasay.
There have been less cyclones and less strength in those cyclones.
The temperature rise of the last 300 years is right on schedule and
peaked around 1990-2004 as part of the cycle known for centuries.

Bushfires were shown to have been less than some previous outbreaks
over the last hundred years or so.
The only one he did not raise was Islands drowning.
Aukland Uni people put that to bed with a majority of Islands being
now bigger than 1945.

It is with some pride that I read that Australia is near the top of the list of nations with a population sceptical of the whole climate change’ meme. Congratulations Oz!
I don’t think this article quite reaches the level of a tantrum, to reach that level I think it would need a statement like ‘we’re all going to die!! - real soon!. (Or words to that effect).
Raycom. So accurate in just 6 words.

Did I miss the mention of nuclear energy in this article?

I don't know Pete S, did you?
I am advocating nuclear energy that is not only a reliable dispatchable carbon-free first choice! But the cleanest cheapest and safest choice on the table!

See thorium in four minutes, or prize-winning investigative journalist and science writer, Richard Martin's tech talk on the same topic. Or that of former NASA scientist and nuclear technologist, Kirk, Sorensen, if you like to fact check my contribution!

Carbon tariffs will soon become a future reality, as nations like Indonesia abandon coal and gas in favour of MSR thorium shipped in and then anchored wherever the need is? They can. We can't?

Private enterprise cannot get the funding they need for coal-fired power and the government needs a new mandate to invest the taxpayer's money in new coal-fired power stations. And the ones we have now are now deep into there final years of viable operation! And simply cannot be replaced with wind or solar.

If we build gas-fired plants then have our production and or processing hit with carbon tariffs, they could easily become stranded assets? Which is why the investing community is waiting for sanity to prevail and the current prohibitions on the development of the nuclear energy option to be completely lifted and not saddled with radioactive rogue emissions standards that aren't equally applicable to coal and gas! Given the same standards prevailed, current coal and gas would fail! No smog or CO2! And the cheapest by far, option on the future table!

Nah, we don't want any of that? that'd make too many unearnt col-fired/gas-fired paydays disappear!?
Cheers, Alan B.

Galileo had a different problem with the authorities than the heliocentric (sun centered) model- it was about sun spots and the eternal heavens from memory... but yes I believe the Ancient Greeks were probably aware too- amongst others such as the neo-platonists- and stone circle peoples.

See link...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_heliocentrism

To me there are too many people on the Earth- and that is the essential reason for environmental pollution- of which Global warming could be a part. The resulting conflict for resources between ethnicities and cultures has created a mexican standoff.

But to be fair to the articles author I should read it before commenting further

I've noticed that everyone except me wants to avoid discussing the fact that the AGW problem is too big to fix.

Shows that there is a lack of scholarly and scientific knowledge out there amongst a lot of people.

There was Greek, whose name I cannot remember who measured the length
of the shadow at noon of a stick in Northern Egypt then traveled south
into Nubia I think it was, and measured the length of the shadow
at noon, and from the difference calculated the diameter of the Earth.
He confirmed experimentally what many believed.
A nice bit of mathematics there.