If this article is meant to promote his new book, then he needs a new publicist, the article isn't a good sales pitch.

1. The world is not on fire! The writer is a professional scientist and should n better than to write such stuff.
2. Greta is not a messiah, just a child puppet operated by ambitious activist parents, who use child abuse to promote their own ideas.
3. Ending fossil fuel use?, tell that to India and China!
4. COP25 in Madrid was a fiasco. The commitments where not worth the paper they were written on and as such the agreement is dead in the water. Why even bother with the Glasgow COP26? Oh yes the 90,000 delegates need their holiday trips on 747s.
5. New economics? why not get Bernie Sanders to run the world? Except for India and China, who will take over any world run by the likes of him.

Really, with this sort of rhetoric, how can the author expect readers to want to buy his new book?

@Allison Jane

Well said and I fully agree!

I think it is high time the silent majority finally speak out against this push by the Communists to wipe out Western Democracies around the globe. This 'climate change' scam is just the latest in a long line of attempts to destroy the free world so they can bring in their totalitarian regime on a worldwide scale. And that is no conspiracy theory. You only need read Agenda 21/30 to realise just how bad the world will get if we fully implement these evil laws.

This Greta sheila and all the other Commies like her around the globe are peddling pure evil. Their lies are so easily debunked but yet so many of the idiotic and stupid general public are still brainwashed and silent. They know they are being scammed, but are too afraid to stick their necks out, even just a tiny bit, to call BS on what is clearly a load of crap.

Take the garbage about Australia's bushfires this season. We have had far worse in decades and centuries gone by. What made these fires so bad was the fuel load. We always get long droughts and searing temperatures in summer. So the conditions for large fires are there every single year. But because our rotten and criminally negligent politicians deliberately prevented the clearing of the forests by either cold burning or physical removal of fuel, the fires turned into raging firestorms that no one was ever going to stop.

In Victoriastan there are large tracts of forest full of heavy fuel loads that the criminal and lying Andrews and his govt refuse to show the maps of. His BS about giving the locations to arsonists is just a cover up.

Wake up Australia. The world will not end in 12 years. That is a load of crap, but life as we know it today in this country may very well end in a decade if you let these Communists win!

Greta Thunberg, like all naive children - with a dose of mental problems and awful parents thrown in - is not 'right' about anything. As for John Avery, well Alison Jane's comments are more than adequate

Really, so Boris Johnson is also a communist.

I think the global warming deniers will always be in the very small minority of people. In fact, I will bet on it.

I even think Australia, with its large reliance on coal, is also going to change in the coming decade

Once Asia decides to ditch coal and oil gets expensive then global emissions could decline slowly. After the next COP in theory international carbon pricing could be implemented. If so Australia may be forced to comply. The current government seems to have some truthiness issues... they say emissions are decreasing when they went up last year. They want to build a new coal fired power station and at the same time be carbon neutral by 2050.

The decline of US fracking could be a trigger for an oil panic. We'll fly and drive less without being asked. If we're not allowed to have all-weather electricity like nuclear then we'll have to use less. This decade I think emissions could peak due to general anxiety not so much deliberate policy.

It's quite straight forward. We give all our assets to this mad scientist. We do exactly as he says or the world will end?
Here is a thought how about we take his passport and put a court order so he cannot fly in a plane or travel in any mode of transport that seats less than one hundred people. He can then show us the evil of our ways. Of course all you global warming bed-wetters can join him and I will stand back and be amazed.