Arrived back in Australia this morning after a visit to farming parents and extended family in NZ. Few heated discussions about this topic during that time. Received a gleeful call this afternoon that the Herald has a fantastic article about global warming today - just proving their case that it is all nonsense!

Our discussions in NZ were more about Kyoto and why NZ is the ONLY country that records the cow fart methane and are then duly taxed immensely for our emissions. Is this true? The financial effect of the kyoto taxes were what they seemed were most upset about - that the farmers in NZ are the ones taking the blame. So they will deny it till the end regardless. Inflamed by the numbers of 4 wheel drives on the road AND travelling the country for weekends away AND flying all over the world for fun - all of which makes a few cow farts quite negligible!

Personally I don't actually care whether global warming is human induced or cyclical or solar induced or whatever. We are currently trashing our planet and anything that makes people and industry change to a more earth friendly existence is all good by me!