As the monstrous swell of water churned and threatened Brisbane from the north and west, the woman rushed over to make a point to Ms Gillard.
"Those climate change sceptics need to get over it!" she told the Prime Minister.
The woman, distraught and indefinitely homeless, had inadvertently raised a key issue we must now face.
When you consider the floods in the context of so many recent natural disasters, the climate change debate needs to be re-ignited. If you?re a climate change denialist who believes it?s all a global conspiratorial scam by scientists and governments, it?s probably best to stop reading right now.
While you?re at it, probably best to stop reading and watching the news.
