Dave,
You may not realize this obtaining all your information as you appear to from the ABC, Gore and the Guardian but the climate is always changing.
According to the IPCC ( the modeller`s bible ) global temperatures have gone up since 1900 by 1.3 deg C taking the average to around 14.5 deg C.
Still a little chilly!
Since 2008 when the global disaster database settled EM DAT there has been no increase in global disasters.
Meanwhile the world has revegetated under the beneficial influence of increased CO2 plus crop yields have improved.
Still waiting for the climate change devotees to show proof that CO2 is the primary driver of this mild global temperature increase.
Not correlation!
