Professor Ian Plimer

Then in the Viking times, it was cooler than now.

Then in the medieval times, it was warmer than now.

And then in the Middle Ages, we had the Little Ice Age.

It was considerably colder than now, and we've warmed up since the Little Ice Age.

Well, what a surprise.

So I think this is the new religion, and this has turned out to be blind, unreasoning faith.

Yes, of course.

Science operates on frightening people if you want a research grant.

So I once served on the Australian Research Council.

I also served on the German Research Council and the Swedish Research Council.

But in Australia, we were instructed by the minister to give money, grant monies, to people who were fighting the war on cancer.

And if you could demonstrate that there was a relationship between ingrown toenails and cancer, you would get funded.

Now you will get funded if you can put climate change into your research grant application.

So it is the new religion.

It's been embraced with fervour.

And it's going to cost us very, very dearly.

It's weird.

Well, she wasn't a school kid.

She didn't go to school.

And this again, we see in religion, in Christianity, young women often appear as something on the horizon