Australias floods - climate change in action?

I'll keep this one short because I don't have much to say, but the Australian floods have really been getting on mind mind. Especially as none of the news coverage has even mentioned "global warming" or "climate change" so far.

What I fail to understand about Australia is that for 30 years, the Green movement told the world that rising seas levels had a "hit list" of cities. That's 30 years that these idiots have taken to still fail to believe in something that is actually happening right now in front of their face- DUH!! Surprise surprise the area underwater now in Australia was predicted as a danger zone for freak floods caused by climate change. Yet even though Australia is clearly feeling the hit of the warmer world, it's people and it's government still act as if climate change isn't a problem. Only Australia and the US failed to sign the Kyoto Protocol to cut carbon emissions back in 1997. Now you could say they are paying the price. As of March 2010 only 44% of Australian's believe in man made climate change. This particular kind of foolishness is like a 100 a day smoker with lung cancer not believing that their illness was caused by their habit. Sometimes you just have to accept that after doing something which is in the short term enjoyable, you may face undesired long term consequences. It is no good for the Australians' to simply deny the root cause of the ever more frequent freak weather events that they are experiencing. This particular kind of intellectual primacy is only going to f**k them up even more in years to come. It's not that I hold a particular grudge against Australians- in fact I feel sorry for the 44% of the who do accept reality, but I just refuse to feel sorry for the 56% of them who complain about a crisis that they are largely responsible for. At 17.9 tonnes of CO2 per capita, Australia is one of the worst global warming culprits in the the world. Only a few island states that are heavily dependent on long distance imports (like Trinidad and Tobago), oil rich middle eastern lands (like Qatar that comes in at number one), and the odd tax-haven of the super rich (like Luxembourg) beat the Aussies and the Yanks at the race to scorch the earth.

It's about time the 56% of Australian's who don't believe in climate change grew up and accept that they have misbehaved and are now paying the price. Things are only going to get a lot worse for them if they don't.