It rolls off the tongue so easily, doesn't it - "keep Coal in the Ground !" Nice alliteration.

Yeah, that should do it.

Anyway, we can make solar panels and wind towers, using - not electricity derived from burning cheap coal - but from electricity derived from solar panels and wind towers which, in turn, have been made using such renewable energy. It may be all at a horrendous cost, and we may have to pay five or ten times as much for our renewable energy, but surely that it something we should all put up with, in order to ensure the globe doesn't warm up and the sea-level doesn't swamp Fiji's mountains ?

Or maybe somebody will have the sense to ask, what is an acceptable - i.e. an environmentally acceptable - level of CO2 production, the sustainable balance between production and absorption of CO2 ? Will switching to natural gas mean far less CO2 in the atmosphere, i.e. closer to a sustainable level ? Or should we keep natural gas in the ground too ? Hmmmmm, not so alliterative. Well, sort of.

Or will we have to watch yet more disaster movies about a two-inch sea-level rise over the next century, swamping all before it (i.e. all under two inches tall) ?

I hope that NZ's South Island can recover from this AGW anomaly of being covered in snow and that normal internet services can be restored ASAP.

Joe