Don't forget, the Liberal Party thinks Global Warming is crap

Apparently, global warming will be characterised by extreme weather events. I guess Mr Abbott and his bunch of… um… er… ministers will not change their view from that of global warming being crap until we have such extreme weather events. 


You know, until America is plunged in to a deep freeze where if you leave your face uncovered for any length of time your skin will freeze. Let's say when it snows in Texas. When extinction rates rise. (Okay, not strictly an extreme weather event) Or the sea ice collapses in the arctic  Maybe when the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets both lose mass, along with most glaciers worldwide. When there is extreme heat in Australia that is so extreme let's say Adelaide is declared the hottest city on the planet.

Maybe when Portugal, China, Hungary, Finland, and Britain, all record heat waves. When the temperature in some place like Death Valley, hits 54.0C, the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth. When Shanghai records 40.6C, the highest ever temperature recorded in 140 years of records in that city. When Brazil suffers its longest drought, maybe followed by massive floods.

When warmer Europe experiences massive rainstorms. When as much rain falls in a few hours in central Europe as normally falls in two months. When Czech Republic, Austria, south and east Germany, Switzerland, Slovakia, Belarus, Poland, Hungary and Serbia all experienced heavy flooding in what are described as once in 100 year rain events. In some places in Austria, 150 to 200mm of rain fell in a day. That’s one day.

When there are massive floods in Sudan, where more than 250,000 people are forced from their homes. The region around the capital, Khartoum, is particularly badly hit, with at least 15,000 homes destroyed and thousands of others damaged.

Or when hail falls in Cairo, snow in Israel, Syria and Jordan, and record high temperatures are recorded in Scandinavia.

I guess until such extreme weather events happen, the Liberal Party is justified in dismantling every environmental control Australia has ever put in place. Including the marine park protecting the Great Barrier Reef and the World Heritage Listing on Tasmanian forests. Because, until these extreme weather events happen, we all know that global warming is just crap.