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  • Did Australia's obsession with global warming contribute to the Brisbane floods?

    01/15/2011 6:24:15 AM PST · by giotto · 15 replies · 1+ views
    The Telegraph ^ | January 14th, 2011 | Brendan O'Neill
    Who, if anyone, is to blame for the terrible flooding in Brisbane? Commentators are pointing their collective finger at the usual suspects. For the extreme green magazine Grist, the floods expose mankind’s arrogance in believing that he can build settlements anywhere he likes, even on floodplains... But might there be another, so far overlooked, contributing factor to the floods? Might the politics of environmentalism itself – the contemporary obsession with global warming as the greatest threat to mankind – have exacerbated the impact of the flooding in Brisbane? ... It is worth looking at a document called ClimateSmart 2050, which...