" I think the global warming deniers will always be in the very small minority of people."

The hysterics and fear mongers still can't make up their minds if their bogey man is 'climate change' or 'global warming' even after a couple of decades of flat out scaremongmering. Is it change or warming we are supposed to be denying?

It is neither of these, of course. It is the man-made aspect of change/warming that we deny.

As for our minority status: I think Chris Lewis needs to look back at pre-election polls to see how far down the 'important' list the majority of voters rated the issue. Easier to grasp is the result of the last last election itself, when Australians were threatened with the loss of more jobs and even dearer electricity be because of the AGW lie.

that is true, but momentum towards greater action to reduce human generated emissions is likely to grow.

of course, the contradiction between self-interest and environmental needs will require smart leadership, but I feel Australia will end up making a much greater effort to reduce emissions.

I live in hope.

The outpourings of the deniers prove that parallel universes exist......

Agree with most but not all of this! truth be known the way out has a massive economic upside!

Population growth is the formula of greed and deliberately created pockets of poverty. And manifesting as tiny islands of wealth surrounded by deserts of want and unmet need.

Used to put downward pressure on wages. And dumb as when the real effect is to put downward spiralling pressure on the domestic economy support by the discretionary spend! Yes, we do need a new economic template just not the one governed by the ideological imperatives of an ill-informed Author.

Populations growth is controlled and downsized with economic growth in the lower socioeconomic sector and by the removal of poverty. Plus by the accompanying education of the female cohort.

Best facilitated with cooperative capitalism as the overriding implementation vehicle! And given that as the template deals out greed is good, conservative boosters.

Further assisted by real tax reform that just doesn't allow any form of greed is good, tax evasion to take place! TBC.
Alan B.

I am increasingly impressed with Alison.
My memory of women in debates is they always go with the flow and never get into a confronting or awkward situation.
So like a breath of fresh air we have what I classify as "my kinda woman", ya gotta love it.
Anyway what I find a little disappointing for me is, that she says all the things I have been saying/thinking, and of course once she has said them, I can't, and find myself thinking "that's what I've always said", but don't for fear of being accused of 'piggy backing' or stealing someone else's comments.
But it's all for the good when I realise that someone (she) said it.
Good for you Alison, and don't let sad little stroppy kids like Mr O and Co bother you with their childish, petulant rants.

Cont. And never ever allowed to happen by the current decision-makers

Because they and their ilk are part of the problem and leading us like sleepwaking lemmings to the cliff and coal-fired mass extinction. And I know you know who I mean. And so it will remain as long a very small group get into parliament with just 4.5% of the primary vote.

And it's them and their preferred Idiotic coal-fired policies we thank for the emptying out of rural and regional Australia. And their like-minded ilk, the world over for the severity of the most recent bush fires and extreme weather events, unparalleled in living memory.

We need t end our absurd and asinine reliance on coal! And I personally don't give rats if that sends a few foreign miners broke! Or upsets the 12,000 CMEF union members. There is a veritable smorgasbord of other minerals that could be mined as part of the decarb of the economy!

And given we just remove the self-imposed and stupendously stupid ban/prohibition on nuclear power, give ourselves the new carbon-free energy we need to run a nation and drought-proof it as well and only possible if we also embrace cooperative capitalism as the essential economic template that incentivises outcomes and productive capacity that has no peer.

Is nuclear power safe? Yes it is, if you choose the example that operates at normal ambient atmospheric pressure and cannot meltdown! TBC.
Alan B.