A better set of statistics would be pollution per hectare. Pollution per person shows Australians worse than Chinese or Indians, but pollution per hectare shows the Chinese and Indians are the problem.

To combat the problems of global warming the solution appears to be to plant trees to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, so how does Australia stand with our trees?

Half of Tasmania is forest.

Cross to Victoria we have the Otway forest, the Grampians, Mt Cole Forest, Creswick Forest, Canadian Forest, Wombat Forest, Dandenong Forest, Gippsland Forest, the Australian Alps Forest, the red gums along the Murray River and the green triangle along the South Australian border.

Follow up the Great Dividing Range, the forests extend up to Cape York with the Blue Mountains along the way. Cross to the Kimberleys, you have tropical forests.

Down to southern West Australia the forest blend into the country across the Nullabor back to South Australia.

We must have at least 1000 trees for every person in Australia. Every city also has parks and street trees and Australians love their garden trees.

We finish up on the plus side on global warming with our trees.

The people who worry about global warming also push for less use of coal, gas and oils and seek alternative energy sources.

I do not argue against this because the amount of coal, gas and oil are limited and we will run out of them one day.

Global warming or not, our argument should be with the Greens to get the rivers dammed and go for hydro electric power to add to solar and wind power.