Boosters for Net-Zero, expensive and unreliable power, and all the climate scams, are just pawns for grifters making money out of the biggest con job since the tulip rort of the 1600s. Our tiny emissions on top of the natural (and essential) carbon dioxide emissions are irrelevant, globally, and they are not changing, despite all the billions of dollars already wasted - money being ripped off the pawns as well as those of us who know it's just one big con.

In the meantime, while Australians are being treated like fools, Chris Bowen has taken 495 people - most with no official, government, business or personal connections to the subject - off for a holiday in Brazil at the COP.

I much prefer the perspectives on the obvious planetary climate crisis provided here: http://www.noemamag.com/article-topic/climate-crisis

And a related site titled Small Precautions
http://nilsgilman.substack.com

Meanwhile the future of the US (in particular) is in the grubby little hands of the current President who does not even have a teensy-weensy molecule of Wisdom in his bone spurs - so too with the GOP in its current form and momentum.

Daff,

Try to be a bit more specific in criticising the orange one. For one thing Trump is going all in on nuclear.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trumps-80-billion-ai-power-163826687.html

That seems far better than Australia's approach of powering the nation with a system that has never been built or proven using 100% intermittent generation from China. To me that looks like a certain disaster.