In answer to Joe Loudmouth-

"The world is a bit more complicated than your schoolboy version of it."

Answer- That's because in little more than one generation the Locke Liberals, the New Left, the Global Businesses have made it more complicated- and dangerous. A dangerous house of cards...

We do indeed live in dangerous times.

But then as Tor Hundloe points out - Galileo was
put under house arrest by the Vatican for saying that
the earth moved around the sun. In fact, in 1633 the
church made him recant his theory of the universe.

And as Hundloe tell us - in case this religious
intervention in science is seen as a thing of the past,
he tells us to be aware that on issues which require
radical solutions that are likely to harm vested economic
and political interests, censorship exists today.

He states that in Australia in 2006, leading
climatologists with the country's pre-eminent public
research organisation, CSIRO, were forbidden by the
organisation's management from publicly discussing the
implications of climate-change. Management was acting on
behalf of the government.

And Australia is one of the stand-out countries in terms
of human development status. It is not corrupt. Its
science is world class. None of this mattered.

In 2006, the Australian Government's position was to cast
doubt on global warming and refuse to enter into UN
agreements, such as the Kyoto Protocol. With the release of
the Stern Report on climate change, the Australian
Government's position changed - yet the PM remained half-
hearted about a commitment to counter global warming.

Little has changed in many decades from the times of
Galileo when ignorance and vested interests are confronted
by scientific facts.

New ideas, instead of being welcome for the opportunities
they open up for the improvement of the human lot, are
threats to those who have become comfortable in their
ideologies (religious or otherwise).

The climate debate has been used as a stick to beat the other side of politics by both of the major parties. Both parties advocate globalist industrial growth systems (Locke Liberal Systems) which are unsustainable on a finite Earth, unmanaged, and irresponsible- the only difference between the systems is who controls the reigns to hell.

When you reward mismanagement you get more mismanagement- that's what liberalism is- and something will break- sadly the cultures that are responsible will disappear first- ours is one of them.

The pictures on the wall...

Grandpa and Grandma, Father and Mother, Uncle and Aunty, my family- Aunty Grandma you read stories to me as a child- I was the Protector- I'm sorry I couldn't protect our families legacy- like you protected me- I can only keep trying until we are destroyed- it is inevitable. It's my fault. We will sleep forever forgotten in the winds of time... no one to remember us now... swirls of dust.

Rest in peace.

Canem Malum,

What 'climate debate'?

We're too busy dying from the WuFlu to worry about the climate.

But since you raised it, it appears that the massive 100 year floods across southern China at the moment are the consequence of global warming.

If global warming can do that to China then I say Bring it on!

Kazys Kunca addressed Albert Namatjira:

"You are like the night, like my shadow
You are homeless in your country,
like me
Your heart cries out to the universe
And you beg Heaven
for freedom, maybe".

Mr Opinion- Interesting article.