I note that alarmists always make a big noise about people dying from heatwaves, but are spectacularly silent about the much greater numbers of people dying from cold.

A fine example of observational selection.

Good Grief. Catch Peter Doherty in the current "Monthly" and compare his scientific expertise with your own.

Mike Pope may gain integrity selling insurance.

I never cease to be amazed at the crackpot utterances of those who reject global warming and deny it has anything to do with human activity, despite irrefutable evidence supporting the opposite. They include Senator Minchin who should no better, to Joe Average who may not.

They also to include the JBowyer who seemingly does not know the difference between an ozone hole in the stratosphere exposing the earths surface to increased harmful solar radiation and the formation of ozone much nearer the earths surface with potential to kill those with lung or heart complaints.

Then there is Sniggid who believes more atmospheric CO2 is good for us and that the earth had been cooling since 2001 – The ice age cometh! Rather like asserting that climate science is wrong, I am right and, like any good sceptic, I don’t have to produce a shred of evidence to support my position. Furthermore, since Tuesday last week was hotter than to-day, its time to buy winter woolies.

Far be it from me to confuse anyone with facts but scientific records show that global temperatures have continued to increase since 2001. There is a nice graph at http://www.pewclimate.org/global-warming-basics/facts_and_figures/temp_ghg_trends/temp.cfm which clearly shows this.

Little Brother thinks a few degrees warmer is neither here nor there. Just burn the fuel load and we shall be spared bushfires. The latter will definitely help but a warmer climate has two effects. It does permit disease carrying insects to move further south bringing their diseases with them and it does melt land based ice causing sea level rise and, probably sooner than later, coastal flooding.

Federal and State governments are beginning to recognise and warn of these dangers, even if sceptics do not. Their concerns and the facts which give rise to them have never troubled the likes of Senator Minichin or his weird conspiracy theories, so I suppose we should not blame others too much.

I think we should be very concerned by global warming. It is not a figment of the imagination, nor is it going to go away simply because a few deny it.

Jonjay (Wow an apt name for a sanctimoneous little prig!)Ozone mate is ozone and The greenpeace nazi princess said they had cured the ozone depletion by making us all use more expensive propellant gases. Now the this diddyman comes along as said the ozone is going to kill us as there is so much of it being generated.
Get your stories straight? Well that is not possible as this all a lot of nonsense. You keep shifting ground as a moving target is harder to hit. First we are going to freeze then AGW and now climate change, perlease! There is no science here and anything to do with the UN has got to be a scam.
This is all a taxation claim from Rudd the irony being is that the biggest winner will be the Wall Street Bankers who will be trading the certificates which we will be paying for.
I arrived in Australia in the early 1970's and some American bird lead the campaign that said all Koalas would be extinct by 2000. Last weekend some other woman is now saying it's 30 years time under her tax free and FBT free status. Nice money if you can get it!

Another BS piece of alarmism from the climate fascists.

"The sky is falling, the sky is falling!"

Jonjay, a small increase in the space of nearly nine years!?

A small increase in temperature on a planet that has been in existence for how many billion years? I'm pretty sure that the climate has changed far more dramatically than this many times over before industrialisation occurred, let alone before humans even existed.
That is not evidence of anything.

You claim to have evidence, but everything I've seen is conjecture and 'consensus' among a few scientists, most of whose wages are paid by governments. Which is convenient given it's governments who are angling for more unecessary taxes, and control over the lives of everyone else.
It's either that, or scientists who were nobodies five years ago are trying to carve out a niche for themselves at everyone else's expense.
Wouldn't be the first time.
Even the AGW poster boy Al Gore falls into this category of corrupt AGW pushers, given his interest in companies such as Bloom, and the many inaccuracies/lies contained in his rubbish political piece "An Inconvenient Truth". Just another crook methinks.

There was a time the scientific consensus held that the world was flat, so forgive me if I don't trust scientists when it comes to the way the world works regardless of how far humanity has come since then.

The fact is that humanity's ability to accurately predict the future of the weather (or of anything else for that matter) past about 7 days is non-existent, and none of our long term 'models' can honestly be described as accurate.

Oh, and as a general rule, the burden of proof usually lies with the accuser (AGW alarmists) and not the defender (sceptics), so you've fallen over there as well as in proving AGW is worthy of action.