Reply #6: I don't believe it will take five years, look at what's happening in Austraila, [View All]

not to mention the droughts in the U.S., I wonder how much Beck believes this will cost?

"Like many climate change deniers in politics, Howard has been frantically re-adjusting his stance over the past couple of years in an effort to stay abreast of public opinion. (Even George W Bush has been heard to utter the phrase "global warming.") But he still refuses to sign the Kyoto accord, and he still insists that "technology" will solve the problem without any need for major changes in the lifestyle of countries like Australia.

It used to work, but one huge fact has turned politics around in Australia. The country is in the seventh year of the worst drought since European settlement began over two centuries ago, and very many Australians have begun to fear that it is permanent. Droughts are cyclical events and will eventually end. But if this is really an early example of what climate change will do to countries in the mid-latitudes, then it's never going away again."