If we could just convince the greedy and stupid that;
"There is no economy on a dead planet."

"real significance of the climate emergency"

The relevant fact is that 99% of the world's population doesn't accept the climate alarmists' belief. Those who do are wealthy elites in the richest countries. Climate change is their religion.

The problem is that the “very high HDI” countries like Australia have a high proportion of rich people who are prepared to spend money on supporting the Greens’ religion. The governments of these countries are competing to make the largest commitments to emissions reductions. They are ramping up spending on near useless renewables and other equally useless policies. The funding wasted on useless policies will slow global GDP growth. Lomborg says the increase in energy costs alone will slow global GDP growth by $1-2 trillion per year. That means more poverty for longer, more useless, poorly directed handouts, more conflict and all that compounds the economic losses.

9.7 million people from around the world – nearly half from the poorest countries – have voted in the online UN "Have your say" poll to say "what matters to you" http://data.myworld2015.org/ . Climate change ranks dead last. However, the details of how different groups voted is interesting. Compare the ranking of the importance of climate change in the very high HDI countries with the ranking in countries with lower HDI. Only the high and very high HDI countries rank climate change above last. The higher the HDI the higher climate change ranks.

It’s also interesting to compare the education levels of the Australians, Americans and British responders. The proportion of voters who completed only primary school or high school are much higher in Australia than in other very HDI countries (where most voters competed a higher level of education). I expect Australian school teachers (led by the far Left Teachers Union) have been telling their pupils to vote …. after ‘educating’ them on how to vote of course.

'Denial is a defence used to manage fear. '

Plenty of real fears to manage instead of made up ones Lyn. Paris was made up of charlotans and gullible people who really think they have control over the weather. Organise a clean up day and you will be doing much more than those polluting the planet by flying to Paris and drinking fine wine. You really have to be kidding? No doubt Lyn was oblivious to the amount of security needed to protect the goons at the airports and meetings in Paris. Oh thats right Islamic violence is a made up problem.

Yes we can have clean coal, but not by just wishing for it or waiting for some investment angel to do it for us!

It's possible to feed all the smokestack emission into clear plastic pipes filled with nutrient laden currently problematic effluent and algae. And given sufficient tonnage of algae, clean up all/more than the relevant power station emission.

Algae absorb 2,5 times their bodyweight in Co2 and given optimum conditions as described, are able to double that bodyweight and absorption/oil production capacity every 24 hours.

Some types produce virtually ready to use unrefined, diesel or jet fuel and almost indefinitely, even after the power station is decommissioned!

Even with a fuel excise added can be profitably marketed for as little as 44 cents a litre, providing a massive break the door down market and potential!

But take everything they can foreign investors don't think like homegrown patriots and therefore, we could wait till hell freezes over before one lifts a finger to invest more than they need to to continue to gouge profit for little or no real outlay or do more than the piss weak law and even more piss weak Aussie politicians with their eyes glued to the prize, require.

Extracting the oil is child's play and done with very simple technology!

After that the remaining biomass may be fed into digestors to make, food and arable land free, ethanol and yet another layer of profit for the investor; which given the lack of progress on the part of the itinerant coal/power industry, or private players, needs to be the government, which has really run right out of excuses for lack of any real or visible action on this front!

None of it fixed by endless promises by word smiths and all too clever accounting!

Time to can the can and the endless excuses, clean the wax out and just get on.

The additional income would do no harm to the current and rising deficit!
Rhrosty

Oh well it was a "given" that the trolls would join in on this. Goodbye guys see you on another thread no doubt.

Robert

Why do you require other people to force you to stop using fossil fuels and consuming natural resources?

Why don't you just stop using them? Then you would have the additional moral benefit of practising what you preach, wouldn't you?