The biggest ever single cause of emissions would have to be Black Summer caused by lack of mild burning. A huge peak in charcoal deposition across 70,000 years of record occurred when Europeans disrupted Aboriginal burning. When foresters reinstated landscape burning after the mid 20th century it declined against the trend of warming temperatures. Greens put and end to that and gave us what we have today.

Climate policies and actions need to be justified on the basis of the economic impacts of global warming, not on the amount, rate or causes of projected temperature changes. If global warming is beneficial, as empirical evidence indicates may be the case, policies and actions to reduce global warming are not justified.

Don't pull the "Don't be fooled by the mild summer" stunt. The fact is that the climate is not doing what you scare mongers said it would. You don't even know the difference between carbon and carbon dioxide, so stop the lecturing.

As for being a "world leader", we are now a world leader in high electricity prices, thanks to the likes of you.

To pre-empt Alan B.'s accustomed THORIUM pitch :)

CHINA may be WORLD LEADER in Thorium reactors for ELECTRICAL POWER!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power#China

"In March 2014, with [CHINA'S] reliance on coal-fired power

having become a major cause of their current "smog crisis,"

[CHINA] reduced [CHINA's] original goal of creating a working reactor from 25 years down to 10.

"In the past, the [CHINESE] government was interested in nuclear power because of the energy shortage. Now they are more interested because of smog," said Professor Li Zhong, a scientist working on the project. "This is definitely a race," he added.

In early 2012, it was reported that China, using components produced by the West and Russia, planned to build two prototype thorium MSRs by 2015, and had budgeted the project at $400 million and requiring 400 workers." China also finalized an agreement with a Canadian nuclear technology company to develop improved CANDU reactors using thorium and uranium as a fuel.

Currently two reactors are under construction in [CHINA'S] Gobi desert, with completion expected in 2020.

CHINA expects to put thorium reactors into commercial use by 2030."

Guy Hallowes,
There is no need to compensate mines and power stations closing down. The evidence of their environmental effects has been clear for over thirty years.

We needn't specify how trucks will be powered; just that they will get their energy from sustainable non fossil sources.

> The only way of actually creating, implementing and maintaining a coherent policy to
> combat Climate Change in Australia is by having a bi-partisan approach to the issue.
I'm not so sure about that. The USA appears to be starting to do so another way - perhaps we could too?

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Little,
>The biggest ever single cause of emissions would have to be Black Summer caused by lack of mild burning.
...Except it wasn't just caused by lack of mild burning. For example it also extended into areas that were normally too wet to burn. And even where there was a lack of mild burning, that was often because hot weather in the preceding months had reduced the opportunity for mild burning.

I think in future there will need to be a lot more mechanical removal of undergrowth.

> A huge peak in charcoal deposition across 70,000 years of record occurred when
>Europeans disrupted Aboriginal burning.

So more carbon was stored in the soil at that time? Are you sure? That's not what I'd expect!

>When foresters reinstated landscape burning after the mid 20th century it declined against the
>trend of warming temperatures. Greens put and end to that and gave us what we have today.

I don't ever recall seeing any Green campaigns against such burning. Do you have any evidence?

Climate Change and what we should do about it
Guy hallowes,
Let COVID-19 do an unhindered run ! That'll cleanse our atmosphere ! Birth control would be an even better option !