What are conservative commentators saying about the floods and climate? | Temperature Check

Australia has been through worse, Chris Kenny contends, while Andrew Bolt suggests global heating is brilliant for farmers'

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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.