Even if you want to give credit to Australian Senator Fielding’s new-found knowledge of solar flares as the cause for global warming, the phenomenon itself is definitely real – not a flare-up.

So real that Indonesia has put offers on the table to help neighbouring island nations move to its higher-lying islands. The first climate refugees will be tenants on these islands. Nauru, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati and Tuvalu are all candidates for becoming such tenants.

Fancy losing your land, your country, only to become a tenant elsewhere… What if you don’t pay the rent. Surely we need better answers.

A report by the Global Humanitarian Forum blames climate change for the deaths of 300,000 people a year, seriously impacts on the lives of 326 million people and costs $125 Billion per year.

The situation always has been serious but the effects are now beginning to be felt by many. The Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012 and we must put something much more potent in place of it.