Baillieu rejects Governor's view on floods

VICTORIAN Governor David de Kretser has put himself at odds with the Premier by suggesting climate change is to blame for the nation's catastrophic floods.

Discussing the floods and the Black Saturday fires during an interview on 3AW yesterday, Dr de Kretser said: ''I'm sorry, I'm one of these believers in climate change, I'm afraid, and … I don't think it's going to go away.

''There's too many of these events, not only in Australia but throughout the whole world that are happening now … Everyone says this week [is a] one in 100, one in 200 years [event] but they are happening pretty much more frequently now.''

Premier Ted Baillieu later disagreed with the Governor's linking of the floods to climate change. ''I don't think we are in any position to make a comment on that, frankly,'' he told The Age.