The confusion of the public can be easily cleared by telling them the truth.

Human emissions have virtually no effect on climate. Any effect is so trivial that it is not measurable.

The misleading nonsense of the IPCC has caused the rush for so called “renewables” and huge amounts of taxpayers’ and private investors’ funds have been wasted on giving incentives to this worse than useless sector.

We are fortunate in having vast deposits of coal, which supplies cheap energy.

The two reasons for not being concerned with emissions are firstly that they are trivial, and secondly that the last fifteen years of rising CO2 in the atmosphere, without any increase in warming, shows that the theory on the effect of CO2 on climate, needs a serious rethink.

Nuclear is the obvious answer for those concerned with human emissions, but better still would be for them to understand that their concerns are baseless.

“The AGW consensus scam is one of the most astounding frauds in all of history, not only because it is patently false, but also because it is being used to propel the most sweeping and authoritarian scheme for global economic, social, and political regimentation the world has ever seen. This is not merely a theoretical scientific debate; the alleged "science" is being used to drive policy and legislation — at a global level. The policies they have already succeeded in imposing have caused devastating impacts.”

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There is little doubt in my mind that very low water use algae framing will eventually replace most of the liquid fossil fuels we use now. Dutch scientists have been growing algae for some years now, and were reportedly ready to produce commercial quantities of jet fuel as soon as 2010. Green technologies in Boston Massachusetts, were trialling algae as a natural smoke stack de-carbonising fuel producing product, around a decade ago. Their success apparently had them predicting a future, where all the diesel we need would be green. Silicon valley is following a similar line of research or enquiry, and was some years ago, running a couple of diesel powered Mercs, on the fuel they where then producing.
If you drive a diesel or petrol powered vehicle, you are driving one powered by algae laid down and metamorphosed millions of years ago.
Some algae are up to 60% oil, which is virtual child's play to extract, utilising waste power station or solar thermal heat.
Algae absorb 2.5 times their bodyweight in carbon emission. They can under optimised conditions, double that bodyweight and Co2 absorbing capacity every 24 hours.
Algae grown in closed cycle systems use very little water, which can be merely borrowed and returned to the environment, cleaner and with all problematic nutrients removed.
[Currently wasted, tertiary treated effluent is fine.]
Very large scale algae farming/bio-diesel production, would both rescue and greatly prosper the Murray/Darling basin and all who live in or rely on it!
Moreover, done on a large enough scale, as followed pragmatism/example, would eventually give all participating nations total fuel independence, and actually begin to reverse carbon pollution trends!
However, we do need to earn much more export income, in order to be able to affordablly convert our economy to a carbon neutral one!
We could do just that, by simply accessing our currently locked away; natural, lower carbon producing, income earning, hydrocarbon assets!
Rhrosty.

No private households need to pay for power again. Leave the dirty power for industry to sort out.

I always wondered who Tom was. Tom's letters are regularly featured in the letters section of the Australian "news"-paper.
They are instantaneously recogizable by their content and tone - recognizable without even having to refer to who the author of his letters may be.

Rhrosty
"There is little doubt in my mind that very low water use algae framing will eventually replace most of the liquid fossil fuels we use now."

You're joking right? Scientists have been able to create fuel with that stuff for years, but have you any idea of vast scale that would be required to replace petroleum production? Then there is the difficult question of whether you would use more energy making the stuff than you would get from the resulting oil. Biofuels now grown as crops have the same problem.. they exist because governments subsidy them, not because they make the slightest difference to the world's energy.

Once upon a time the technoligical genius of the USA was harnessed to produce the atom bomb via the Manhattan Project. And via the challenge by Russia via its Sputnik "victory", to come up with a technological solution to challenge and beat the Russians to put a man in space.

Why then can not the latent techological genius of the USA be harnessed to invent/provide a solution to the techological conundrum re the unsustainable increase and use of fossil fuels, and the obviously untenable use of the nuclear "option" with which all of humankind if faced.