Ah Bucko! I live in the Latrobe Valley and regularly go by our two wonderful brown coal plants. The air around them is cleaner than the inner city areas of Melbourne where I assume you sip your Latte's? What to do about those inner city areas? What about no cars allowed?
Solar only produces power when the sun is up, enough. When it goes down in the sky, no power. So back up coal is needed. The private power companies happily closed Hazlewood knowing they would reduce costs, ramp up existing plants and increase prices (Your super hero Danny Andrews estimated 20%) resulting in doubling their profits two years in a row. I could go on but you have your entrenched reactionary views and are unable to listen to reason.

Askbuko said; If it works, and we now know its price is putting coal and nuclear out of business in the US, then accept

Do you still believe renewables are cheaper ?
You had better go back to square one on that.
Make sure the X key works on your calculator.

Why are realists now branded deniers ? I haven't met anyone yet who denies that there is a climate change.
What no-one seems to acknowledge is that there are too many humans & they cause massive pollution yet no-one seems to be too concerned about that. Pollution is real man-made, Climate Change is a natural cycle. Why is that so difficult to understand for so many educated people ? Are they so educated that they've run out of brain space to hold common sense !
Looks like that to many I speak with !
lte's focus on taking action on issues we can effectively tackle instead of just crapping on & on about things/phenomenon we can't do anything about ! Is that so difficult to comprehend ?

more drivel from Mark Buckley who hides behind his pseudo science to demonise Morrison. Nearly as bad as his first effort. Saw Tucker Carlson making a complete fool of Bill Nye the other day on utube. Quite hilarious when even the 'experts' have nothing to offer except for pseudo science and lies. No doubt they have learn't most of their climate 'facts' from Greta.

prefer the look of a coal-fired power station to a paddock of wind turbines.
askbucko,
What number of wind turbines do you think would be required to keep the average consumer happy ?
How much pollution do you think the production & maintenance of all the turbines would amount to ? Considering that they require metal & plastics etc. I'd think the resulting pollution would out-do coal mining & burning by 2:1 !
Let's just focus on curbing population growth. If a lot of power is needed for towns then small, portable nuclear plants would keep pollution down, giving the environment some chance to recover.

Oh, well that didn't take long.

The author went from trying to analyse the potential conflict within the government over CO2 to simply demanding that everyone who disagrees with him "get on board". Because, it seems, he's educated..or something.

Additionally, apparently, we all ought to "study the 'mood'." Well I somewhat expect that the 'mood' is very different among those pontificating over a cheeky cab-sav as compared to having a XXXX after digging up another 16 tons..( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKnYN5C69RY ).

The different moods were exemplified by Shorten trying to walk the tight-rope between Melbourne Ports and Adani. He failed. As will anyone else who tries to reconcile emission control with economic necessity.

The author wants us to remain on topic. But his essay wasn't the topic he wanted to discuss