The Cyclone Jasper damage is expected to be a Billion.

Add a few more Dollars !

CO2 traps the spectrum of infrared heat close to the earth and prevents it from normally reflecting back into space.

CO2 is a super plant fertilizer that promotes increased plant growth/production almost like that as happens in a greenhouse. And that why it is called the greenhouse effect and CO2, greenhouse gas.

This increased plant growth/activity comes with increased plant aspirated moisture which as increased humidity, traps thermal heat across the heat spectrum. Just as clouds does on a mild winter night!

We are not talking about natural climate which does will occur. Nobody is arguing that fact! e.g. we should now be experiencing a cooling phase as part of the natural cycle. And reduced solar activity!

Instead, we have seen record heats, heat waves and English summers more like Australia than is traditional. Ditto northern Europe. We are not concerned with this or that year but what is happening over decades as trendlines.

There's is no question in recent decades there has been extreme weather events outside living memory. Brisbane would have been all but washed away not that long ago, but for Somerset and Wivernhoe dams.

If the facts don't suit your belief system? Ignore the facts why doncha. And this rings true for most if not all climate change deniers.

It's all a money making they will claim as the park their brains in the dustbin. I mean, believing in a flat earth never made it flat!
Alan B.

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Another disaster for our money to be spent on.

The cost of replacing our coal-fired power stations with the nuclear option, i.e., SMRs or MSR thorium, is less than refurbishing our current coal-fired power stations.

Search the world over for one example where the privatisation of energy supply has resulted in cheaper prices or more reliable service! I couldn't find a single example. Or in any public service amenity!

Recently the Chinese not confounded by bureaucracy, unions and officialdom managed to iron out all the bugs in MSR thorium and have made them available on the market for prices we couldn't duplicate here!

We should bite the bullet and buy as many as we need to replace use by date coalfired power. Some before then as the price of coal becomes even more prohibitive!

There's a huge upside in the production in medical isotopes from MSR thorium, the most notable, the alpha particle, miracle cancer cure, bismuth 213. Which reportedly has cured many death sentence cancers. Ovarian and some very nasty inoperable brain cancers.

The fossil fuel energy barons don't yet control our uranium or our thorium reserves, which by the way comes as a byproduct of rare earth mining and act as an indicator mineral that can be seen in aerial surveys.

And makes power at 3 cents or less, PKWH. This will reduce the cost of building/producing all manner of building materials and their transport etc. And negate the need to build on flood plains or remote fire prone regions to produce affordable housing.

And councils must have rezoning taken from them to further bring down the price. And speculators must develop land banks within a year of purchase, to further ameliorate price barriers.

Governments must not allow our current debt burden to prevent any of this as, this is the only way to draw down debt/put affordable housing back on the table.

And done off budget via internal means as social credit. All doable and done elsewhere in the past!
Alan B.

Only 40% of El Nino comes with disastrous droughts. Albeit with reduced rainfall.

While we make 1.2% of all global emissions our energy exports may make as much as 40% of them?

Transitioning to nuclear energy as MSR thorium and MSR nuclear waste burners, will turn us into an energy exporting superpower. As we export reliable, dispatchable, clean, safe, affordable electricity to all who want it. Via undersea cables.

The national debt is a problem that can only be drawn down via increased economic activity and has always been thus.

The changes suggested will not tank our economy! Just the very opposite as energy dependant high tech manufacturers beat a path to our door!

And if supported by genuine root and branch, tax reform, as
a 15% flat tax collected above a generous tax-free threshold.

It could be a virtual stampede of manufacturers and their operational cash reserves. Could be trillions in total. Moreover, such changes/reforms, could make us a manufacturing and energy exporting superpower, self-reliant economy, able to compete with allcomers/China/Hong Kong and the like, for market share.

Face facts, the above scenario is never going to happen or even possible with coal, gas or renewable power! But is possible of we transition to nuclear power ASAP or yesterday.

Leadership with future foresight would have transitioned to nuclear power 20 years ago! And the national fleet would been kept, modernised and powered by nuclear power. Ditto our railways!
Alan B.