Climate Sceptics

Many of you will have noticed a new party on the Senate ticket this time - and might be wondering why they didn't get a few Senators elected.

Because as we all know "Climate Change" is crap and "Climate Science" is a left wing plot designed to de-industrialise the West. And other blah, blah, blah.

Or at least that is what Tony Abbott, Nick Minchin and the usual collection of rabid right wing *wingnuts* have been saying now for a couple of years. And Barney Rubble has spent much of the campaign running about and railing against the "big new tax" that will likely be imposed - to fight that imaginary problem of "Climate Change".

So given that these views are *fact* then there must be many hundreds of thousands - if not millions - of Australians who were waiting to vote against that confected problem called "Climate Change". I expected to see at least half a dozen new "Climate Sceptic" Senators emerge on Sunday morning.

Er actually no - the Climate Sceptics managed to get something close to SFA - or 19,031 actual votes - Nineteen thousand actual votes Virginia!

Pretty significant really when you consider that there were over 10 million votes cast in the Senate ;-)

And Rudd was so scared of them that he wouldn't take the opportunity to go to a Double Dissolution election on this issue.

Gutless politicians - dear reader are one of the reasons why we now have a *hung* parliament.