Does it matter if global warming is true or not ?

We must leave oil before oil leaves us.
In a longer time period we must leave coal before coal leaves us.

We must build a new energy regime, simply because of the decline in
the reserves of oil at the highest prices that the economy can pay,
together with the decline in coal quality, world wide, that the economy
can afford.
Australia is in a good position on coal and it is needed to build
whatever is the replacement. So why are we flogging off the lot ?

Australia now imports 98% of our petrol & diesel.
ANY INTERUPTION to our supplies will mean that in two weeks there
will be fights in the supermarkets over the last tins of food.

Exaggeration ? Its exactly what happened in the UK due to a strike.
Are you aware that there is no Emergency Plan for such an emergency ?

Sure the commonwealth has legislation for taking control of fuel but
there is no displan for local control of any kind.

Now that is what I call a crisis !

"Beware! The crisis is coming!"
It sure is.
But it ain't the weather.

"‘Dire’ comes from Latin dirus meaning fierce, horrible, frightful. Can you summon up such a problem currently facing our society?"

Currently, no.
After one or two generation of kids growing up in the meaningless mess of Multopia, yes.

An advertisement I see ad nauseum online sarcastically celebrates their inability to find a typical Australian family.

When that really *is* true, you'll have your crisis.
The smirking and back-slapping will end.
Fiercely, horribly, frightfully.

Oh Dear Don still flogging this horse. Please continue your war on mainstream science you'll get the be a staff writer for some right wing think thanks if you keep trying. Hell you might even get ask to write a column for the world news daily bunch, or conservapeadia.

But what you certainly will not be doing, is contributing to the study of the climate, no we will have to rely on actual scientist for that.

There is certaily a crisis of rational thought in Australia, with alarmists ignoring the lack of warming. Then their is the furore over the Royal Commissioner and calls for him to stand down from an idiot who aims to Attorney General in a Labor government, but who doesn't know that no mere politician or government can interfere with a Royal Commissioner or his Commisson, nor that he (the idiot) would be charged with contempt if he repeated his ravings outside of parliament.

Then there is the hysteria of homosexual "marriage" drowing out all other real problems, and the fact that one third of members of a suppose conservative government are further left that the Greens. Throw in the fact that polls show that a man up before a Royal Commission to answer questions of his involvement in union jiggerry pokey is wanted as PM by 64% of by knuckle-heads for PM, and we don't have A crisis, we have crises, one after the other.

certainly the leftist media and its followers display blatant stupidity. Whether it be promoting perversion, gw fantasy or encouraging drownings, the leftist dogma fills the headlines. The smaller the readership fairfax gets the louder they scream their irrational stupidity. One would of thought university was about thinking and learning. Now it produces mindless rhetoric hidden in masses of websites and group non think.

Have to agree with Cobber, and have the headline rewritten as, Don't miss the boat, the opportunities are coming!

Don is an expert, with an alphabet soup after his name to prove it!

The most appropriate "scientific" definition of an expert remains, an X is an unknown quantity; and a spurt is merely a great big drip under considerable pressure?

Don, the great big solar furnace in the sky that supposedly is responsible for all our climate change, has been in a waning (cooling) phase since the mid seventies? (NASA)

And the possible reason, (you think) for the reported (formerly permanently frozen) permafrost melt and lack of summer ice along most of Alaska's foreshores.

Or the myriad new summer lakes up there bubbling literally millions of tons of(lighter than air) methane to the surface!

You really expect anyone, except a moron, is going to believe a cooling sun can do any of that?

Or because you can't see it from here, isn't actually happening, and just part of a great big conspiracy to separate a fool (government) and his (our) money?
Rhrosty.