Australia: If climate realists don't knock off the extreme rhetoric, CO2 will cause our houses to flood, and we'll die!!!

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DEPUTY Prime Minister Wayne Swan has called for an end to ''extreme rhetoric'' after a week of intense mud-slinging from both sides of Parliament.

Mr Swan said the Liberal Party was part of an ''unholy alliance on climate change in this country'' which included the federal opposition, Pauline Hanson, One Nation affiliates and extremist political groups.

Despite calling for calm in parliamentary behaviour, Mr Swan took aim at Opposition Leader Tony Abbott as fanning a political climate of ''fear and intolerance''.

But Mr Abbott decried Mr Swan's comments as ''increasingly shrill and desperate'' in the climate change debate.

MPs told to warn of climate mayhem | The Australian

MPs are also urged to warn that extreme weather leads to associated additional deaths.

"Sea levels could rise by up to a metre and possibly even more by the end of the century," the document says. "Up to 250,000 existing homes are at risk of inundation.