Excellent article, thank you Brendan. But history shows that the chance of commonsense prevailing is minimal. And on page 1 of today's Australian (13 Jan), PM Morrison responds with the fatuous approach of intensifying our futile and costly emissions-reduction.

... emissions-reduction programmes.

The whole thing is becoming ridiculous ! The CSIRO, the governments
official advising body cannot produce a definitive document that
proves Human generated CO2 is warming the planet.
However the planet is warming, and whats more it is right on schedule !
It is the Svenmark hypothesis since confirmed by two Uni papers from
Finland and Japan.
A peak in global warming was expected around 2000 and it has occurred.
It will be with us for a 100 years possibly and then decline to a cold
period in about 300 years when the Londoners can get their ice skates
back out of the cupboard.
Heard of the Medieval warm period ? Heard of the Maunder Minimum ?
Well here we are again !

Bazz, thank you, I've been trying to grill your very comments into SR's limited brain and ability to deduce simple facts.
So thanks for your effort on making it clearer for these morons who somehow refuse to see reason, when it has been presented so many times.

Anything that reduces emission/pollution is great even for the short-term. Will the CC concerned please list the commodities & Habits they're willing to curb as of tomorrow in order to reduce pollution ?

Two days gone & still no-one's told us what they'd do without to curb Climate Change ?