Climate change has not been answered for farmers: we need more information, not less | Marian MacDonald

Cuts to the CSIRO's climate and land and water research will make finding solutions - and making milk Australian families can afford - ever more difficult

"" in the last decade we've definitively answered the question that the world's climate is changing. What keeps me up and night and I think what keeps most of the country up at night is what are we going to do about it? How are we going to mitigate it?" - CSIRO chief executive Larry Marshall, ABC's 7.30, February 4

Perversely, I'm pleased CSIRO chief Larry Marshall is lying in bed worrying about how to mitigate the effects of climate change. I'm only glad he's not a farmer like me, because I doubt he'd cope.