Dingbat Register

Toward the end of this century when all those in denial on the right and elsewhere have long gone and even their children are pushing up daisies and their grandchildren and extended families are searching through the public record to understand what grandad and his forebears did in the great "climate change" debates - then they will come across the truth - and my *Dingbat Register*.

Which is just a list. A bit like Schindlers list - it is a list of Australian's who are in denial about our impact on the planet.

This is the list of names of the people in our society who talk rubbish in the parliament, write stupid letters to the editor, pen dumb comments on science blogs, talk crap on the radio and on television, threaten climate scientists and other people - and who insist that climate change is a myth.

These are the people who spent the best part of the first couple of decades of the 21st century denying the carbon problem existed and who then worked hard to stop any action to deal with it.

They hated science - because it made them look stupid.

These were the dingbats of the 21st century. The only good news is that their comments are on the public record and their names are in my register - so we know a bit about who they are and what they thought.

Sometime after 2081 - with the wind howling and the tide running and the temperature soaring then poor Johnny and his sister Jenny will discover that their forebear was one of the people who could have done something about this problem but didn't - and they will be seriously unhappy.

So send me your details if you would like to make history near the end of this century.

PS - I don't expect the Register to hold very many names as this research found 74 per cent of respondents believe the world's climate is changing and 90 per cent of respondents accepted some level of human causality. The sceptics are a minority group with just 5.8 per cent of respondents characterised as disbelievers.