[We're saved!: Australian farmers allegedly do something to improve the weather; can they have large amounts of your money now?]

Mr Coulton says it is important governments talk to farmers to learn how they deal with climate change.

"They've been pioneering techniques where they have been direct tilling into native pasture and by doing that and getting away from conventional methods they've had incredible increases in soil carbon ... they are doing that for economic reasons, it makes sense economically and as far as their farms go," he said.

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One thing i've noticed about this heat wave is that people are a lot less quick to blame it on global warming

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