sorry to restart an old thread, but it has become a somewhat heated issue in Australia.
recently our government passed a bill that brought in a "carbon tax" that is one of the highest in the world... at a time when we experienced one of our coldest, wettest summers on record.
we have also been hit with a levy to pay for a "desalinization plant" (turns salt water into drinkable freashwater), even when our freashwater dams are so far over maximum that they are over flowing.
personally i believe that global warming has yet to be proven, and even if it is occuring that there are other causes for it other than being influenced by "human development"
recent research into global warming has shown that global temperatures have in fact been steady for a number of years now.
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