I’m very grateful to the Agmates.com website, which published one of my articles last week. The article carried the provocative title Rudd’s Greenhouse Target: Disaster For Our Grandchildren? (a copy is also on this website). It has provoked quite a discussion over there..

The Agmates community is based in the Australian bush. Like any group of people, it includes quite a range of opinion. But it would probably be accurate to say that the majority view is sceptical of the case that climate change is a significant threat.

So Steve Truman, the editor, shows guts to publish these articles and invite comment. It’s exactly what media should do much more, but actually do very little: stimulate discussion and exchange of views.

Today, Agmates also published my follow-up article: Not Far from Climate Change Consensus for Action – A Response to Climate Change Sceptics.

You can also read it on this website.

The article is an attempt to put the case for strong and rapid action on greenhouse emissions reduction as best i can.

It’s written from the perspective of someone who’s been concerned for many years about this subject, but didn’t ‘make a career’ out of it.

I don’t pretend to be an expert in the science of climate change. If anyone spots errors in my arguments or the data I rely on, please let me know. Feel free also to post comments in this blog.

Just to tease, here’s the kind of cartoon that may send serious sceptics over at Agmates into an apoplectic fit. Yeah, it is simplistic. But it’s a cartoon, after all. (Kudos to the brilliant Tom Toles!)

Global Warming Inonvenience