GOOD on Jess Jennings for calling out the Nats on climate change ("No winter in Bathurst by 2050, report claims", Western Advocate, March 12).
Subscribe now for unlimited access.
$0/
(min cost $0)
or signup to continue reading
The Australian National University research of climate modelling for 151 electorates paints an apocalyptic picture.
READ MORE:
While my ancient bones might welcome warmer winters, the rest of my ageing body might not appreciate being baked as summers approach incandescence.
I realise such predictions are as good as the modelling upon which they are based, but the trend is indisputable.
Despite this, at both state and federal levels, here in what was once Ben Chifley's seat, National Party politicians in their 1960s tweed garb glad-hand themselves around the electorate in climate denial, still defending coal.
Shockingly, they might be re-elected.
That climate change is still politically contentious when it is not scientifically contentious makes me wonder when the age of witchcraft will cease.
