How about climate hysteric, Matt Kean, calling for more coal and gas to warm us in this very cold start to winter!

Abundant sun and wind!? And that where the (polly want a cracker) conversation ends for (science free zone) green idealogues! Controlled by closed mind idealogical imperatives. Claim that there's nothing cheaper, cleaner or safer and blatant BS. Given Thorium is abundant and everywhere.

Moreover, the soil in your quarter acre backyard or mine contains around 8 grams of the radioactive mineral. That 8 grams as part of a larger scale project would cost around 100 dollars to mine and refine.

That same 8 grams of thorium would power your house and car for 100 years without refueling. Do the maths., that's a dollar a year. And should we ever get to using it as our baseload power!?

Put all the other energy options into forced retirement, along with the energy barons who control them and their bought and paid for pollies!

Who will front the ignorant media with their brand of BS (lies, dam lies and statistics) to ensure the above never ever see the light of day!

Regardless of the economic boost on steroids, the adoption of the above would give, the length and breadth of our economy!
Alan B.

Dan you are a genius! Have to hand it to you mate, you alone have cracked it! Abolish gay marriage and hey presto the climate will return to normal so we can forever burn our abundant coal!

And must mean you have a brain as big as Texas and should be running the country! I mean, who but you would come up with such ingenious solutions! I prostrate myself in your presence.
Alan B.

It is laughable that this has even been published by OLO. Complete and utter child scaring Marxist nonsense and lunacy.

I'm with you, Cody. This article is so ill-conceived and wide of the truth that it's laughable. Nothing but green left wing propaganda. There was no seismic shift of political views and voter actions at the last election - Labor has a 1 seat majority after a Coalition govt which had a one seat majority! There is no energy crisis - people are not dying from too little energy - the sources of energy needed to sustain our economy exist and are available but at a price that is far too high, largely because of the incompetence of past governments to manage our energy systems (in large measure, because they believed the false claims of renewable energy supporters).
With luck, some economic reality is returning to Australia.

With electorates falling hither and thither to the ALP and teals promising 'climate action' to reduce our emissions and save the world (lol), its beyond hilarious to find that they've barely got comfie in their new parliamentary seats when the fossil fuel crisis arrived.

And their solution to the 'crisis'? Beg the coal-fired electricity plants to increase their output. Repeat...burn MORE coal. Which, of coarse, increases the dreaded CO2 emissions.

Funny beyond belief.

And where are the oh-so-pure teals demanding that the coal not be burnt? Why aren't all those who think the GBR is gunna die demanding that we freeze for the good of the planet.

They're hiding from the truth just like their brethren who decided that they'd rather have cheap petrol than pay for their beliefs.

Because in the end, all those who want the nation's emissions to be cut are completely on board so long as someone else does the cutting. They've been lied to and have chosen to believe that cutting emissions is cost-free (for them) and have no intention of suffering the cost of their beliefs. The next three years is going to be a real eye-opener for these dills.