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" It is starting to come to the general attention that, because Al Gore sold his TV network to the Hezbollah, and because crafty scientists have convinced latte-drinking liberals and the Hollywood Elite of the Great Climate Change Hoax so that they can ram through Agenda 21 and unleash the UN secret army to steal all our golfs, Australia is simultaneously burning down and melting, which is a considerable climatic feat when you think about it. There are gas stations that can&amp;#039;t pump fuel because it vaporizes too quickly. It&amp;#039;s gotten so bad that they have had to change the weather maps. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has added dark purple and magenta to its color-coded weather forecasting map to represent temperatures of 51 to 54 degrees Celsius (123.8 to 129.2 Fahrenheit), officials said. Temperatures on the map were previously capped at 50 degrees Celsius, represented by the color black. &amp;quot;In order to better understand what temperatures we might see ... we introduced two new colors,&amp;quot; said Aaron Coutts-Smith, manager of climate services at the Bureau of Meteorology. The government has tried to do something but, of course, there was a carbon tax involved, and that&amp;#039;s energized the opposition. This time, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is listing climate change as a background cause, and is warning of more extreme weather to come. &amp;quot;Whilst you would not put any one event down to climate change,&amp;quot; she told reporters in Tasmania as she toured the damage, &amp;quot;we do know over time that as a result of climate change we are going to see more extreme weather events and conditions.&amp;quot; While that&amp;#039;s been said before in Australia in the context of bushfires, it&amp;#039;s significant this year because the prime minister&amp;#039;s carbon tax-which aims to avert the devastating effects of climate change by reducing the amount of carbon in the air-will feel the full brunt of a brutal election campaign against an opposition that vehemently opposes the tax. And the country, alas, also is something of the home office for vituperative climate-change denialism. And if they win the political argument, what do they suppose will happen? The temperatures will continue to rise anyway. The fires will go on burning. Things will continue to get worse and worse. This is a problem that has moved beyond politics, at least beyond politics as we know them in this vital moment. If you can still argue that the evidence is under dispute when it&amp;#039;s 129 degrees outside and the country is both burning and melting all at once, and if you can find a strong enough political constituency for that point of view, there&amp;#039;s really not much any of the rest of us can do. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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