Alan B wrote:

"[the sun is] Currently deep in a waning phase (NASA), and since the mid seventies."

What you say is factually incorrect (quelle surprise!).

While the very most recent cyclic phases have been somewhat 'quiet', those in the 70's and 80's were among the highest recorded.

Since you base most of your views on AGW on that error, then, clearly, your further opinions are flawed. I look forward to seeing your NASA data.

But its good to see that the truth about thorium is finally dawning on you. Whereas previously you asserted that thorium was available now, we now see you finally admitting that it may be available " In my kid's or their kid's lifetimes?". Kudos, I think?

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We know that temperatures have been higher than the present for fully 25% of the past 12000 years. Surprisingly, given the hysteria, the GBR survived those periods of higher temperatures. Yet, this time it'll be different, apparently. But in fact the only differnece is that we now have an army of careerists and graduates whose entire life is based around the supposed imminent demise of the reef. Given that the 'experts' need the reef to be threatened in order for their careers to be not threatened, its little wonder that they constantly assert the threats to be real and immediate and that none, or very few, bother to even try to look at or explain why their previous predictions failed to materialise.

Superb article Viv

I note from http://www.desmogblog.com/viv-forbes you are a:

"Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy

...[and] also had a long association with the coal industry. According to his biography at Stanmore Coal where he acts as director, Forbes has over 40 years of coal industry experience.."

You be a true mate of Adani Coal I trust.

Happy New Year

Anyone is perfectly free to use Google to see what NASA not only said, but their most recent article, accompanied by Photographic evidence!

Mhaze; In my grandkids lifetime was attributed to fusion, not thorium!

Suggest both you, and Hasbeen. Need to both read what I've actually written, before you further impugn me, or deliberately mischievously misrepresent my words.

I like everyone else posting here? Use google to deepen my understanding of topics I actually know something about. And commend Google tech talks/Google scholar.

As for thorium, Ivy league Professor (ret) Robert Hargreaves, Author of, thorium cheaper than coal. I quote him when I say the median price of power generated from thorium, is $00.1.98 PKH. Yes, an educated guestimate?

Even so, nearly spat out my dentures this morning, when some spokesman for the government claimed the wholesale price of wind turbine energy was just 5 cents PKH.

Given economist Robert Hargreaves know his maths/extrapolation. Wind power costs twice as much then some, than thorium.

The government spokesman went on and on about how much (cents in the dollar) we'd save after the labor government had locked down energy prices.

Well they're they only one profiting from something bought and paid for by Queensland taxpayer, which the government apparently is using as its personal ATM to balance a very dodgy budget?

Mhaze: you'll be pleased to know the Australian Parliament commissioned a report on thorium, which I've read in full, where the alleged Author saw some technical difficulties.

Not too surprising, given he was applying it theoretically to a solid fuel reactor?

Technical difficulties which didn't seem to arrive, according to NASA scientist, nuclear technologist Kirk Sorensen, when used in a molten salt reactor. Like that which ran for four years without accident or incident, at Oak Ridge.

Unexpectedly, there were several largely overinflated problems associated with a massively premature shut down?
Alan B.

What a perverted stupid brainless article.

The latest wheeze from the rent seekers is that they are claiming to be able to fix the Coral Bleaching. Apparently Coral Bleaching occurs and the coral fixes itself. Now these white coats and clipboards are "Developing" magic to fix it? I can see them getting the Nobel Prize, making themselves rich and all on the meeja's believing anything the Greens say.
We must ensure the ABC are not allowed to report this fiction as fact!

Reports that the GBR was going to be eaten up by Crown of Thorns, appeared more than 50 years ago.

It is just as well that Crown of Thorns developed incurable coral indigestion