Hi Celia, I agree with your first paragraph; many of the criticizing countries have Nuclear Power Stations and asking Australia to provide dumping stations for radiated toxic waste. I don't know enough about WA to comment too much but when I lived there for a short time, a state premier was considering a channel to move wasted freshwater down South. An idea that I've had for years is why doesn't Australia build pipelines to move dam waters across Australia (there are multiple pipelines distributing Oil & Gas). Pipelines need pumping stations, the power to run them could be via Solar and such. So much freshwater is going into the sea it's insane.

Sue, what you say is not understood by many of the AGC/CC faith.  It would appear that many are people who never passed Year 12 Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics.

The so-called "Climate Scientists" have always resorted to the "if you're not a Climate Scientist, you cannot find fault with our reports and conclusions".  This appeal to authority style of argument is used by people who are afraid that they will be shown to have flaws in many aspects of their proposals

If a person adds on Climate Science/Meteorology and Statistics to their formal studies, the arguments from organisations such as "The Climate Council" are seen to be even more tenuous.

The only good thing to come out of COP26 was that the economies of Glasgow, Scotland, the UK and the business jet hire companies all got massive boosts.

If COP26 had genuinely been about working out appropriate futures for power generation to all countries and climate variations we would not have seen the grandstanding from so many world "leaders" and so many prancing activists who've never done science even at school let alone at University level.  It would've been engineers and scientists and no politicians.  It would've been so boring that it wouldn't have even rated more than a 20 second sound bite on SBS.

Oh Sue, surely you know by now not to waste your wisdom and understanding on those entrenched in the 'climate change' cult.

Sue, you should do a little more research into the effects of volcanoes upon atmospheric gases. Over the past 50 years they have made neglible difference as they have a fairly short term effect and are a small fraction of human emissions. There is plenty of research and monitoring on volcanic emissions if you look for it. An easily understood discussion on the topic here.

Global CO2 levels fluctuated between 180-300 ppm for the 400,000 years preceding the industrial revolution, reflecting natural variations in the earth’s orbit and varying levels of planet ice coverage. We should be in a cooling phase based on the natural cycles but these are being overwhelmed by the 50% increase in human produced CO2 concentrations to 420ppm since the Industrial Revolution (280 ppm), most of this since 1950 (315 ppm). 

Well said, hit the nail on the head.

Gezzar, the fossil fuel industry in Australia gets no specific subsidies as such.  They get the same Tax concessions as any other business attempting to create a positive industry.

On the other hand, all elements of the renewable industry are only there because of significant and excessive subsidies.  For example one wind farm receives approximately $200k State Government subsidy per turbine per year for the contracted life of the farm (20 years).  This subsidy is paid whether the turbine is generating it's rated 3.5MW or draining from the Grid (when the wind isn't blowing the turbines must be kept turning or risk damage to their bearings.  To do this they must pull power from the Grid).

If you have substantive evidence that the fossil fuel industries in Australia do receive any subsidies, please provide it.

In this particular "race" Australia is in the best place in real terms.

Well said Couldabeen. But words wasted here I'm afraid.

Tim Flannery breathlessly and emotionally told us in 2007 that dams would never be full ever again because rain wouldn't fill them. How did that work out?

Of course back in 2007 it was all about 'global warming'. Since that actually didn't come to pass, we now have 'climate change' and the excess water/rain we have at the moment is blamed on that instead.

Nothing like moving the goal-posts to fit the rheteric.

In 2007 Flannery said that the dams will never fill again so why are people on the Lachlan River getting ready for floods? Wyangala Dam is overflowing once again.

Ronloby, having drinking water in mines would be deadly,   the acid runoff further dissolves heavy metals such as copper, lead, mercury into groundwater or surface water and the rate and degree by which acid-mine drainage proceeds can be increased by the action of certain bacteria.

Re the nuclear power that is expensive/takes ages to build and had a short life AND is dangerous if an accident -- or non-accident like a bomb -- or earthquake, look at Chernobyl and Fukushima still deadly after a long time.    Plus the radioactive waste.

We sure do not need any more radiation at all.

Jack, a point that is not discussed in the burning fuels for power is that every tonne of coal that is burnt recreates up to 400kg of "new" water.  This was water in the atmosphere millions of years ago that has been locked up in long chain hydrocarbon molecules that constitute both the solid fuel fossil fuels and the liquid and gas fuels.

Carbon Dioxide and water are essential for the life on this planet and adding new reserves contributes to increased growth rates of all plants.  The mass of the atmosphere amounts to Terratonnes of gases (including water vapour).  It is a massive thermal store and the same as any object of great mass, it can take a long time to change it's direction of travel.

The atmosphere is generally regarded as being nominally 80% Nitrogen and 20% Oxygen.  There is less than 1% of other gases that include Carbon Dioxide.  This CO2 amounts to being around 0.04%  This is what the plant life struggles to suck in and use for cell growth, liberating Oxygen after the process.  This only happens during conditions of light and during the hours of darkness, the plants revert to taking in Oxygen and releasing Carbon Dioxide.

Dear KSS. 

For the record I am 76 and an ex oil field engineer.

If you  are over 50 the you have no right to vote and make poor decisions on climate change.

Leave that to the 5 to 54 years old who will suffer while you are entombed in your grave.

You do not have to be fire fighter to report a bush fire.

You do not have to be an oceanographer to report tidal waves are rolling in.

You do not have to be a  politician to send out fake news.

You do not have to be a  politician to take bribes.