What kind of crisis unites farmers, small business owners, conservationists and people across the whole spectrum of politics and across the entire planet?

Climate change is an issue that is beyond opinion polls and needs to be beyond politics.

As a very smart nine year old correctly answered in the quiz we held as part of our stall, 97 percent of climate change scientists agree that climate change is happening and that human activities are contributing to the rapid rate of change.

Imagine if 97 percent of doctors agreed on a cure for cancer, and our politicians were not supporting this because it didn’t suit the big end of town.

The country would be in an uproar.

Reputable peer reviewed journals and scientific publications take their job very seriously.

However it is natural that people still think that their lived experience (“there were droughts when I was a kid, and this is nothing new”) holds more weight that the many thousands of scientific articles.

We think we know best.

From our quiz answers, people often weren’t aware that the warmest years ever recorded are in this decade. That is not a coincidence.

Australia is getting left behind and our current political stance has a lot in common with the fate of the dinosaurs, who also didn’t see it coming.