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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Graham Readfearn

What are conservative commentators saying about the floods and climate?

A family looks out over a flooded street in Lawrence, northern NSW
‘Bolt wrote that climate change had been linked to drought, fires and now floods – as if climate change can’t have multiple affects.’ Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Floods and their causes are complicated and there has been a clamour for answers from Australians over the role global heating could have played in the devastation left along the east coast this week.

But one thing several of Australia’s conservative commentators are sure about is that the climate crisis had nothing to do with it.

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