Aidan
Aborigines burnt forests in summer
scrub growth now makes it too wet to burn anywhere unless it's hot and dry
mulch burns too that's why 500 homes were destroyed in Canberra 2003
it's illegal to burn frequently and mildly enough in NSW to keep bush healthy and safe because Nature Conservation Council is on the Bushfire Coordinating Committee.

The author fails to understand that, while scientists are correctly telling us we have a problem which we must solve, it is not scientists but economists and politicians who must make the decisions about the specific actions we should take to solve the problem. Climate scientists have no expertise in government/politics, managing the national economy, addressing social issues arising from unemployment, responding to higher energy prices which impact more severely on the poor, etc, so the author is wrong to blandly state that we should decarbonise our economy in ways that will lead to non-scientific impacts.
As a scientist, I believe the simplest, most cost effective, natural and safest response we can take to address the climate change challenges is to implement iron fertilisation of the oceans to remove from the atmosphere at least as much CO2 as we are putting into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels, land clearing, etc. The science behind iron fertilisation of the oceans is well understood but is not what the activists prefer as the major climate solution because it does not achieve the societal change they want to meet their political goals.

Solar panels? No, they create mountains of toxic waste in manufacture and again with disposal in landfill!

Solar thermal? Ever seen what happens to birds who fly through that concentrated beam of sunlight? Their feathers are badly burned and the results often terminal!

Wind farms reportedly kill around a million birds a year? And need to turn for around thirty years to offset the carbon created in their manufacture?

Germany shut down its nuclear energy and put up huge wind and solar farms! Outcome? Increased carbon emissions and much more expensive electricity!

Conclusion? The only viable solution to climate change is the nuclear option! And that option has to be MSR thorium! Check out the vids I've shared on FB and the views of many credentialed scientists and thinking environmentalists!
Alan B.

It's too late to fix the problem.

How many times do I have to tell you people?

The moment you get some clown telling you renewables will replace fossil fuels in generating the electricity we need, you know that either they are too damn lazy to do the research, or too damn stupid to understand what they are reading if they tried.

There is no way on earth that the current renewables can replace our current electricity requirements. Add the fact those pushing renewables as viable replacement, are the same people who want to add the requirement to recharge 50 million electric cars to our electricity requirement, & it becomes even more stupid.

These people are either dills, gravy train riders, or have a hidden agenda they aren't prepared to enunciate to the public.

Just not worth bothering with.

The only reduction that'll pull up GW is a reduction in human population. As soon as humanity's demands reduce, so will emission !