SR hopefully when our brainwashed younger generation eventually grow up they will stop listening to the clown chorus lead by people like you.

If they don't I hope they treat people like you as you deserve for the disaster you want to cause.

Dear Hasbeen,

Howdy old cock, good to see the fingers are still working.

Well let's see. So not going ahead with the Adani mine would be a disaster more so than leaving an overheated planet for our kids?

You really are one hell of a selfish person aren't you. Gotta keep them mining royalties coming in to support your pension huh? Thing is Adani has a 5 year holiday on any royalty payment. Well let's hope you survive long enough to pocket any benefit from Adani. Chances aren't looking good though.

do yourself a favour Steelie. Buy a ticket to Brisbane and join the silly naïve schoolgirls for your protest against Adani. Just don't forget to tell them that your petrol or plane ticket, your phone, your accommodation, your heating all required mining Steelie. Oh maybe just educate yourself before you go.

The annual BP Statistical Review of World Energy has been released. Global demand for energy is speeding up again — mainly thanks to China, India and the US. Tellingly, all fuels — coal, oil, gas, nukes and hydro — grew faster than their ten year averages, BUT NOT RENEWABLES. So the momentum has shifted back to fossil fuels, especially gas which was up a remarkable 5.3%, one of the fastest rates of growth in the last 40 years

Hi there STEELEREDUX...

What are you doing giving RUNNER a serve, all because you don't agree with him? I can't believe you, actually support these 'climate change' people, who have very little evidence of such an event being caused by the existence of (modern) humankind on our planet.

I've always accepted your Socialist credentials, but now you're telling me you're an ambitious greenie as well? Of course, that is your right, and if it's your credo to support or follow such climate alarmists, that's also your right. But that 'right' doesn't extend to you being given the freedom to abuse RUNNER or anybody else on this FORUM for their views and opinions, no matter how vigorously you might oppose them.

Surely you would've seen the results of what intemperate and overly aggressive language & behaviour will do on this Site? Which I thought I'd demonstrated often enough, a while back. I've had to learn to be more respectful and measured in anything I might've said. Otherwise, people on the Forum would consign anything coming from me, to the 'dump' button.

And so must you STEELEREDUX. You're an intelligent man, who has the requisite vocabulary and ability to express yourself in any manner you so wish, as long as it's respectful.

Somebody correct me, please, if I'm wrong, but it seems that any global warming (are we still allowed to use that specific term ?) affects the northern hemisphere more than the southern hemisphere, or the tropics.

Much more of the northern hemisphere is land than in the southern hemisphere. Much of it is above the fortieth parallel latitude, in Canada and Siberia, and currently too cold for grain-growing. What impact might global warming have on those areas ? Would, say, a half-degree rise in local temperatures mean that the productive frontier (for, say, wheat or other grains) could be pushed north by, say, fifty kilometres ? i.e. a total of around four hundred thousand square kilometres [fifty kilometres wide by eight thousand kilometres in total length] would be available for grain-growing ? Take away all of the bits that can't be farmed, of course: mountains, swamps, lakes, etc.

That would be disastrous: more grain produced would force the price of grain down and ruin many farmers. Huge areas of natural beauty would be devastated. Herders' livelihoods would be ruined. More productive land may not be the blessing some naive people think it might be.

So in spite of the right of Indians to live lives as comfortable as our own, Adani must be stopped ! Now ! Sacrifices have to be made.

Joe