OK, so at first we admit to being baffled by that parting shot in Greens' Senator Christine Milne's retirement speech.
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You know, the bit where the activist environmentalist from Tassie emphasised that her post-parliamentary plans included fighting for "climate justice."
Hmm, did that mean Senator Milne, leaving after 25 years in state and federal politics, was flagging serious repercussions for folks who criticised the Bureau of Meteorology whenever the weather guys issued a bum forecast?
Or that anyone who complained about days of drizzle would be hauled up before a climate justice tribunal and fined?
Then we hit the jackpot with a bit of research showing Senator Milne had hinted darkly she would be working towards ensuring that global warming denialists' would be punished for their disbelief in a gradually heating planet.
Senator Milne last year spoke in the Senate about a "website of climate criminals."
According to Hansard, July 15, 2014, she hinted darkly: "I would have a few people to put on that list."
More a threat than a promise, Senator Milne has been backed (more likely inspired) by a whole bunch of "out there" overseas boffins who demand denialists face court then are thrown in the slammer.
Maybe this seriously weird Stalinist stuff is inspired by that 2009 case of six Italian scientists who failed to predict the deadly L'Aquila earthquake.
Folks got complacent, hundreds died, and the boffins took the rap for not warning the populace.
Former US presidential aspirant Al Gore must have been on board with that concept and, apart from contributing to a potentially glowing globe by running a 40-room "all lights on" Tennessee mansion (plus heated all-weather pool), he forecast(!) "denying global warming would carry repercussions."
Professor Lawrence Torcello, of the US's Rochester Institute of Technology then ramped the concept up a notch by claiming "those who fail to fall in line with global warming . . . should be charged with criminal negligence and thrown in jail".
Apparently contrarians are making the rest of us unthinking slobs complacent about the threat to the planet.
For goodness sake, now Austrian Professor Richard Parncutt has truly jumped the shark by claiming that deniers are already "causing the deaths of hundreds of millions of future people".
"Anyone who denies global warming should be executed," Parncutt said.
Leaving aside the news that the day Senator Milne announced her mooted leave-taking was Canberra's coldest May day on record, it's great to see her making us aware that the weather needs far more attention than we've been giving it.
We recall an English childhood where climatic conditions played a far greater part in everyday lives, and conversation, than ever here in Tasmania.
In the Old Dart, grown-ups in omnibus queues rarely spoke about anything else.
"Raining again, oh well, mustn't grumble" or, conversely, "lovely weather for the time of year," were typical comments before the arrival of the 8.14am Hants & Dorset charabanc.
Weatherwise, it was an unpredictable period that occasionally included snow in mid-summer and rain almost daily.
Mind you, we recall that clouds were larger, and fluffier, than today.
My father would claim that forecasters "employed a pine cone and a bit of seaweed on the bureau window sill to forecast the weather."
Senator Milne obviously wants to see such ideal conditions prevail here in Tassie rather than have the world heat up by an estimated two degrees centigrade.
In the gloom of an upcoming Tassie winter, it's hard to see why.