UPDATED: "Pick a loved icon, and put a gun to its head"

Quoth Andrew Bolt. But this time it's not the koala, but the white possum, which the Courier Mail thunders has been made extinct by "global warming" (shurely "climate change" - Ed):

"If it has died out it will be devastating," Ms [Sheridan] Morris said.

"It is a big one, and a big one to bang the drum over.

"It is equally as shocking as losing an iconic marine species like a whale or the dugong."

It's a big IF of course, and doesn't tie in with the fact that global temperatures are much the same as they were 30 years ago...

Read it here.

UPDATE: Andrew Bolt skewers the whole thing very nicely here.