We SHOULD drop out of Paris.

Therefore we WON'T drop out of Paris.

Morrison is an unknown on climate policy but he may come to the realisation that the only way to get power costs under control is to abandon the renewables fetishism. But I have my doubts.

Alternatively he could just adopt the solution to the problem that Germany has adopted. Having been at the forefront of climate alarmism and demands that everyone cut emissions, Germany has now announced that they can't possibly meet their 2020 targets and therefore their Paris commitments are no longer valid either. They also said that they didn't really expect anyone else in Europe to meet their 2030 targets either.

So effectively they've said "oops, our bad" and then continued to demand that places like Australia abide by their targets.

And we are going along with that.

Eventually we'll work out we've been taken for fools. But things have to get a lot worse before the penny drops.

Then again, maybe Morrison is braver (and/or more desperate) than I think.

I could be wrong but I suspect that Morrison will
dump Paris if his past record is anything to go by.

Morrison has been unequivocal in his support of
Australia's traditional power source. He famously
brought a lump of coal into Parliament in February 2017.

"This is coal," Morrison shouted across the chamber.
"Don't be afraid. Don't be scared. It won't hurt you.
Those opposite have an ideological, pathological fear
of coal."

Is there an actual alternative to coal at this time ?

Hi there STEELEREDUX...

Will PM Morrison dump Paris, I'm really not sure, what is certain Paris will surely dump Mr Morrison. After all Paris is incredibly wealthy, being as she is the heir apparent to her father's vast Hotel empire. And while I've not had the pleasure of meeting Mr MORRISON, somehow he really doesn't seem her type. Besides he's married with children, and while Paris is to some, a rather 'fetching' and classy young women, to others she simply too fast, and altogether too ritzy for them.

Now once again your unwarranted slur has not gone unnoticed nor was it based on fact. It is well known, Naval personnel really do have a girl in every Port, and Naval Aviators have a veritable bevy of girls awaiting them, as they land their sleek fighter Aircraft in or near every Port. Do I need to say more.

As I type this I 'think' I heard the PM would NOT be abandoning the Paris Accord, so nothing has changed much in that Department. After all Scott M. was the preferred victor, by Malcolm TURNBULL when he announced his leadership spill. Mr Potato Head, was certainly not the anointed individual for leadership of the LNP. So he's very lucky indeed, that he's not sitting way back there, with Mr Tony ABBOTT, in the far off bleachers, way back in the, House of Representatives. Steele, this is one Topic, that've got a really good handle on!

IS there an alternative to coal?

Of coarse there is...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Diorama%2C_cavemen_-_National_Museum_of_Mongolian_History.jpg

Anyone who signed the Paris agreement, is either a liar or ignorant of the laws of thermodynamics: NO ENERGY IS RENEWABLE! If we could find such an energy, then hocus-pocus, we could have built perpetuum-mobile machines!

Nevertheless, the Paris agreement does not care what you do, only what you say - it's a political statement, stating who one's friends are, rather than a practical resolve.