Brian Rogers Rogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz

Global warming has been cancelled due to lack of interest.

It's official. We've declared it over. The science is questionable, the motives are dodgy. Even if all the carbon buggerising worked, it would not save enough to alter a jot of world warming.

So someone has to say it. We have officially declared the game over and Al Gore and his mates can be put out to pasture.

The Greens, politicians and the old ladies everywhere who have been feverishly counting their carbon footprints can relax. You all meant well, but the whole idea is simply a skewed commie conspiracy to extract money and gain power.

At least this is the message I'm taking from Lord Christopher Monckton, who achieved at least two remarkable feats in Tauranga this week:

1. Made more sense of the global warming debate in one night than all the other tripe we've been fed all decade.
2. Managed to get 200 Tauranga people away from their tellies on a weeknight to fill a room at the prehistoric Bureta hotel to hear him speak.

So it's up to you. Make your own decisions. I know which way I'm leaning.

The debate on CO2 emissions has been clouded by hysteria. We should be reducing burning of fossil fuels and other dirty energy for the right reasons: Such as pollution reduction, and conserving a finite resource.

The point that turns most NZers is having yet another tax foisted upon them. A tax that seemingly penalises every facet of our lives, and no one can show us where it goes. Adding to insult – the world's largest emitters are not playing the game; and carry out belching emissions till the cows come home.

There are still a lot of folk with the wool firmly pulled over their eyes.

We admire your commitment and concern for the environment, but it is misplaced and unfortunately, part of a larger scam that has suckered a lot of influential people. You'll notice they will be particularly reluctant to give up the game – it's hard to save face when you've been proven horribly wrong.

But don't just take my word for it. I've been rabbitting about it for years with few science qualifications at the end of my name, other than LMAO and WTF. But a bit of CS (common sense) has been applied and thanks to visiting Lord Monckton, the fable has been debunked by someone with some credentials and has bothered to investigate.

We've kept an open mind and an objective viewpoint on the global warming debate. After hearing Monckton, it's reinforced the suspicion that giant foobie woobies have been inflicted on the world and Gore's house of cards is crumbling.

No matter which side of the carbon fence you sit, every Kiwi should hear what Monckton has to say.

No harm in considering both points of view, is there? Unless, of course, you don't want the truth exposed and are trying to indoctrinate the population with a lie.

Public and politicians especially, at all levels, need to open their eyes to the apparent faulty science being used to bleed us dry. We've been brow beaten by the Al Gore camp; brainwashed our kids at school with his dishonest distortions – for the sake of balance, you need to hear the 'climate realists” take on the matter.

Could it be that the earth has not warmed for 18-20 years, or that some naughty scientists fudged the figures? Why would they need to fiddle the graphs, unless they didn't show what suited their politics? Is there an insidious left wing plan for world government lurking behind the crooked ‘hockey stick' graph and the emotive photo of the polar bears on the melting iceberg?

Why would the warmies need to lie and deceive, unless there was another agenda?

Hear the man, decide for yourself.

SunLive has an interview with Lord Monckton and there are plenty of his talks on Youtube, for those who missed his appearance.

In the meantime, take it easy on the planet for the right reasons.

Welcome, show us your tongue

There's been trouble this week over the energetic little man jumping up and down, waving his arms, making obscene gestures and scaring foreigners.

So in future, we'll have to keep Jim Hickey under better control.

There's also been some fuss from a Danish politician who took offence at a traditional maori welcome. Yes the challenge can be scary, but probably nothing worse than being confronted by Morris Dancers.

Other cultures around the world have some peculiar greetings.

In Tibet, a traditional welcome is also poking out the tongue. It dates back many centuries to a volatile king Darma, who had a black tongue. Fearing he would be reincarnated, Tibetans began greeting with their tongues showing to prove they weren't evil. Some travel advisers suggest avoiding eating liquorice before visiting Tibet.

Eskimos have their version of the hongi, called the kunik.

You can expect to see a fair bit of wild leaping going on in Kenya, as a welcoming dance there finishes with warriors seeing who can jump the highest.

I guess it's called leaping to conclusion.

Mongolians present guests with strips of silk, and in some places, trade pipes for smoking and exchange snuffboxes: a ritual on NZ's east coast and parts of the Coromandel, where the exchange of a certain locally-grown herbal smoke can signal a bond of friendship.

Asian cultures have various versions of bowing and folding of hands; in the Phillippines a younger person greets an older person with a little bow, grasps the elderly person's right hand with their right hand, allowing their knuckles to touch the old fogie's forehead.

We've seen a similar version in downtown Tauranga in the small hours, when one drunk will greet another drunk by thrusting his knuckles into the other's head.

Speaking of travel, Hairy Maclary has made it to China.

Tertiary Education, Skills, Employment and Most Other Things Minister Steven Joyce launched the Chinese language version of the New Zealand children's book Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy, at an education event in Shanghai.

The Hairy Maclary series, first published in 1983, has sold more than nine million copies worldwide.

We hope Maclary did not stop over in Samoa, as some of the island's politicians are attempting to rid the country of stray dogs.

Samoa's Parliament debated the Canine Control Bill when the idea of exporting dog meat was raised.

Minister Toeafoa Faafisi reckons: 'We can use the meat as a fertiliser for plants or even food or something else like a sausage.”

Brings new meaning to the term 'sausage dog”.

Let's hope Maclary is not travelling with Schnitzel von Krumm; who should be very worried.