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Last year and again last month, I spent time flying through North & West Queensland up to Cape York Peninsula.

Winton is my favorite country town in Australia and the area around Winton, Richmond, Cloncurry and Hughenden is characterised by the quantity and quality of dinosaur and pliosaur fossils. These fossils date back to 150,000,000 years when these carnivorous and herbivores roamed the earth.

What are they doing in the middle of the desert?

The answer is that it wasn’t always desert. It was forest, with fresh flowing streams.

Why did it change? Climate Change of course!  Was it because Dinosaurs burnt too much fossil fuel?

At the Kronosaurus Centre in Richmond you can see the almost complete fossilised skeletal remains of the massive Richmond Pliosaur which swam in the Oceans about 90,000,000 years ago.

If these fish swam in the ocean, why are their remains in the desert in the middle of Australia?

The answer is that they swam there when western Queensland was part of the world’s oceans and the present deserts were 65 metres below the sea level.

Why did it change? Climate Change of course! Or was it that the fish drank too much water and the oceans dried up and they died of thirst?

Go to Lake Mungo in the Willandra Lakes area of South West NSW where the 40,000 year old remains of Mungo woman were found and surprisingly you will note that the Willandra Lakes are now totally dry. They contained fresh water for about 30,000 years and dried up about 15,000 years ago. “Why did the lakes dry up”?

The answer is Climate change.

Or was it? Maybe we should blame those naughty aboriginals who lived in the Willandra Lakes area 40,000 years ago. There is undeniable evidence that they lit fires to cook their fish and mussels. Maybe they also burnt the surrounding grassland and spewed carbon dioxide into the air and destroyed the world’s pristine climate, condemning us to global warming as a result of their contempt for the environment.

Which group of humans caused the coming and going of the ice ages and the rising and falling of the seas? The answer of course is that there were no humans on earth to have done this. So how did it happen?

The answer is Climate change.

Around 1985, on behalf of the Victorian Heating and Cooling Association, I wrote to the Bureau of Meteorology and commented that we had noticed that the temperatures seemed to be slowly increasing throughout Australia. They wrote back and said that there was no major change and that the changes we were observing were cyclical and just part of – you guessed it – normal cyclical Climate change - which has been happening ever since the beginning of time. Variations, fluctuations, rising and falling temperatures, rising and falling oceans, ice ages and dry periods.

Throughout the history of the world, creatures have learned to adapt to climate change or have perished. Humans have learned to survive in the frozen Arctic and in the deserts of Africa. No doubt we will learn to adapt to the slow changes in climate over the next 500 years.

If humans are the cause then why are we encouraging people to have more children, take more immigrants and increase our population for the perceived economic benefits it will bring?

Our governments give handouts to people just to have more children. We provide financial support for child care and the more children you have, the more money you get.

Then we tell the poor and the impoverished nations that while we cleared land and burnt coal and used petroleum, to allow us to live our lifestyle they can’t do the same. They must live in poverty while we enjoy all the benefits of a consumer world.

We tell China and India that we are alright and we built our prosperity on the industrial revolution and by burning fossil fuels, but they shouldn’t allow their people the same opportunities. Our extremist environmental ‘saviours’ are happy in their air conditioned homes and buildings made from manufactured products, driving their cars, using electricity and all the while telling the rest of us that we are causing the problem. Is Al Gore the perfect hypocrite? Or does the titles belong to Penny Wong or Kevin Rudd or Bob Brown?

The promoters of ‘man made climate change’ use all of the emotive or vague general terms such ‘the evidence is overwhelming’, ‘the scientists all agree’ etc to promote their extremist cause. People who use these lines in argument or debate, usually have no substantive facts upon which to rely and their whole purpose is to make people feel guilty rather than decide on merit.

We are usually presented with worst case outcomes,  based on worst case evidence which results in a worst case scenario which multiplies the potential problem.

All of the doom sayers are happy to predict sea level rises and temperature increases for 50 to 90 years time, when they will be long dead and unaccountable for their predictions.

None of them have sufficient confidence in their own analysis to provide their predictions in a graphic or matrix form showing emission reduction vs temperature and sea level rise on an annual basis over the next 90 years.

Why would they, when they could be judged and criticised if found to be incorrect.