Matt Kean, the New South Wales Minister for the Environment, recently blamed climate change for the current bushfires in Australia.  He said we have to reduce our ‘carbon’ emissions. He means, of course, our  CO2 emissions. And whatever he is talking about, reducing them won’t extinguish one fire.

Even if the increasingly challenged and discredited theory that man-made carbon dioxide emissions are causing serious global warming is actually true, Australia can do nothing to change the temperature.