Wonderful stuff from Australia: While some idiot professor suggests that carbon dioxide could cause 160 country towns to "be gone within 20 years", "80, 90 per cent" of farmers scoff at the global warming hoax

Climate change scepticism could wipe out rural towns - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

A new report is warning hundreds of inland Australian towns could cease to exist by 2050 if locals do not adapt to climate change.

The report studied 1,600 bush towns and found the ones with low education rates are least likely to make the decisions needed to adapt to a hotter future.

But in many regional areas there is resistance to change because of lingering scepticism about climate change.

...Author Professor Andrew Beer says climate change and market forces will de-populate entire towns.

"It's impossible to predict because between now and 2050 is a very long time," he told The World Today.

"But you could easily see the loss of 10 per cent. So 160 country towns across Australia could be gone within 20 years and a further 10 per cent by 2050 - simply because of climate change and the failure to adapt to it.

"So, many people living in a small place right now will discover that their town won't be there in 40 years' time."

Mount Gambier resident Leon Ashby disagrees.

..."I lean over the fence post, and talk to a lot of farmers and that, and I would say 80, 90 per cent would scoff at what's happening politically when you are talking about climate change," he said.

"We all say 'look, we'd love some global warming when it's a cold day or whatever it is'.

"All those sorts of attitudes, they're constant right through the rural community."