"I have become the bete noire of the $1 brains. They hate the fact that I am what they are not: one of the most educated guys in the country and - according to people who know a lot more than I do - extremely smart."

WOW!! I take it that your excreta don't stink either?

>>"I don't think the sunspot theory is the only answer to changes in the climate"
Good!

>>"I don't think there is an 'only answer'"
Then you're with the majority of climate scientists that measure many different forcings. But our CO2 and methane ARE the dominant forcings we are aware of on our planet.

>>"I think its a combination of many factors that are beyond our current scientific knowledge"
On what basis? A counter-theory requires some sort of evidence. Why don't you accept the 95% confidence of the IPCC? We KNOW how much heat CO2 traps: 4 Hiroshima bombs per second. That's physics. We MODEL where it goes. That's the tricky part. How much heat can our massive oceans hold without side effects on us? Etc. Where the heat goes is the trick. But their models are accurate, and getting more so every year, sharpening to the nth degree.

>>"I think the TCR is closer to 1c than 2.5c but that we'll never get to a doubling of CO2 levels to find out anyway"
That's what you think. I note it's got no evidence?

>>"I'm not your caricature 'denialist'. Very few are."
You might not be, I can grant that. But MOST are!

Josephus, stand by *do you understand it was JOHN HOWARD * who first subsidised solar panels?
Why do you think he did that?
Do you understand we who use them never ever got that 60 cents for feedback power
That we in fact [after big change] get no more than eight cents
Some maintain a higher rate but not near all
As I pay more than I get how is solar dearer, subsidies are constantly being removed
Now what do you base your costs on
A cost you ignore
The cost of not taking action
38 degrees here right now, summer yet to come, fire smoke [no nearby fire yet] is making breathing a little hard climate change? you prove it is not.

From their ABC, lunch time today: half of all bushfires are deliberately lit.

TTBN: Whether lightning strike or arsonist is not the issue.

The sheer scale of the drought and current weather conditions is!
This CSIRO climate scientist knew 40 years ago that we'd be facing this around now.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/17/what-could-i-have-done-the-scientist-who-predicted-the-bushfire-emergency-four-decades-ago

Also, while Coalition politicians blame city greenies, it's actually the FIRE experts saying they can't burn off during winter any more because the weather is too dry!
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/14/former-australian-fire-chiefs-say-coalition-doesnt-like-talking-about-climate-change

Max Green while you are aware many are not
Social media is full of the greens did it but that ignores the truth
Country folk are not supporters of the greens we want to burn in winter,always have
But this drought, and those that came before, make winter burns firestorms, see many that got away
Yes some demand we not burn lard heads at best
But you can not burn when very real fire storms are the result
Yes firebugs start fires but they have dry weather and climate change making that possible
Clutching at straws, looking for something to blame other than drought and climate change is not on