Isn't it curious how the term 'Global warming' is gradually being phased out ?
Climate Change is the new Catch-cry from those who are so out of touch that it hurts to just listen to them.
I recall water temperature of 29-33 degrees up here in the deep North but over the past few years 28-30 Degrees is about the highest.
Why won't the pushers for Climate Change funding accept that it is acidity that's causing coral bleaching ? Tell you why, because it's caused by the very bleaters ! Curb pollution & the Planet will recover ! No billions of Dollars needed for 'Studies".
Of course, that'd mean accepting that the Govt is doing exactly what it can do & that's not much at all until people i.e. voters curb their excesses ! So, stop blaming Govt & start blaming yourselves !

Alan you are old enough to know dam well we had much bigger & "better" floods & bush fires way back in the 1800s, & again in the early & mid 1900s. Hell it was even much hotter in the first half of the 1900s, before the BOM started to rewrite history. It is foolish to hitch your wagon to what you must know is a scan, simply because it partially supports your love of thorium.

Aiding & abetting shysters will not promote your dream, when the best scam in town by a long way is windmills.

I am not against any nuclear system that proves economic. However anyone with school boy math knows that the cheapest power comes from a coal fired power house built on top of a coal deposit, & honest people know that CO2 is the life force of the planet.

You are getting yourself into a lather about nothing, Viv.

Here is what LibLab stands for environmentally: 1. Endless mass immigration, for a 40% population hike by 2050. Permissive logging and land-clearing indefinitely. 3. Fossil fuels forever. 4. A Murray-Darling un-plan for irrigators. 5. Permissive species crashes for koalas, and anything else that impedes development.

What more do you actually want? Bulldozing the bush, just to punish it for being there at all? As WA did, right up until the late 1960s

It is time to vote for change rather than more of the same or the business as usual BS that describes politics today by the major parties.

If climate change is your concern and if you feel that carbon concentrations are the cause? Then know that nuclear power is carbon free. And given we Choose thorium as our safe clean and cheapest power source. then we need to vote for that, or choose candidates who will usher that in as our reality.

Energy and what it costs impact every which way on the cost of living or doing business or making stuff here and the flow on costs to the consumer.

Yes there were big floods in the past as one in one hundred years, events. Now-a-days, those same events happen every decade or so. Meaning, building on flood plans cannot continue.

And we need to understand, doing what we've always done is little more than a recipe for the ushering in of another great depression! And that will not improve anything for anyone, least of all the less well off. I've offered a series of positive solutions that alone will allow us to avoid another Great Depression.

We need to choose our future, not have it chosen for us by foreign vested special interests! Be it what we produce here or who we allow to finance our best possible projects, so we never ever get to own or control our own income producing projects, mines or manufacturing etc.

It is time to vote for change, just not the kind of change envisioned by Viv. Bury your head somewhere warm and comfortable and pretend nothing has changed if you will? but don't expect others not blind to reality to emulate that blatant stupidity!
Alan B.

Hasbeen, Your claim that the cheapest power is a power station built on top of a coal mine just doesn't add up. Even with ROM coal and with the situation you describe, the lowest cost for the above is at best 3 cents PKWH!

Moreover, no bank or financier is going to back any new coal mine or coal-fired power station in! I get you are not against nuclear just the God's honest truth?

Mainly because you can't change because your old brain has fossilized and isn't capable of supporting rational logic. Just impregnated false beliefs like climate change denial!? Which is a very much an extreme minority view by a selfish few who don't give a rats for anyone else, their neighbour or humanity!?
It's the economy, stupid!
Alan B.

What a synical piece of crap from a flunky of the mining industry. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but once one has prostituted themselves to vested interests as this person has done, their opinion is less than worthless.