CLIMATE CHANGE AND CHRISTMAS DOWN UNDER

CLIMATE CHANGE AND CHRISTMAS DOWN UNDER for this editor meant sitting in
front of the roaring log fire in Ballarat, Australia trying to get warm. I
pondered the snow falling on nearby hills which helped put bush fires out,
even though the hail stones didn't damage even the sign at the local lake which
warned "we do not recommend swimming here". Understandable since the lake is
also bone dry.

We conclude that the evidence is definitely against global warming this mid
summer as Melbourne reached its lowest recorded temperature due to winds from
the arctic which lashed Australia's south east.

When I returned home to Tropical Queensland, I noticed that the brilliant
pumpkin crop that had flourished due to a very mild Aussie summer, had strange
markings on it which I had never seen before. On consulting a book on plant
diseases - I discovered they'd been caused by the temperature being too low as
the pumpkin ripened. December in the Tropics and Christmas in Australia is
obviously suffering so much global warming it's been cold enough to kill
you.

Far better to stick with the Biblical record from the God who was there rather
than the weather experts who weren't. The Bible records that the weather has
become increasingly erratic since the time of Noah's Flood. Global climate
change - yes, global warming - no, and it started long before the invention of
the motor car and the increase in factory output of CO2. The world's governments
may never a find a solution to the problem of climate change, but they will
surely find ways to tax it.