"Hamilton's retreat is part of a pattern."

Climate too hot for Clive | Herald Sun

Actually, Hamilton's retreat is part of a pattern.

Al Gore, the Great Profit of Doom himself, now bans journalists from his lectures. The ABC's chief science presenter, warming believer Robyn Williams, refuses to have on the former head of the National Climate Centre, William Kininmonth, because this sceptic allegedly can't understand climate.

And Greenpeace says "we no longer debate people who don't accept the scientific reality of anthropogenic climate change".

Better, Wellington Shire Council is dropping a plan to halt development on a part of Ninety Mile Beach it claims could be drowned by rising seas unleashed by global warming.

Residents had said its scaremongering was driving down property prices and they might sue if it didn't stop.

What a shame the council dodged that debate, too, given what happens when courts start checking evidence.