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Originally Posted by Renato1
Yep - we've never had bushfires like this before - except that the 100 years trend for bushfires is down instead of up, and while the current ones are bad, we've had far worse.
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Utter nonsense. We've never had bushfires this extensive and long-lasting. These bushfires started in winter and have affected almost every state. We also have much more effective fire-fighting tools than ever before - aerial bombardment etc but they're still unstoppable. Rainforests have dried out and burned!
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Originally Posted by Renato1
And, let's get lots more subsidies for solar panels and heaps more concessions and subsidies for electric cars, so that the poorest members of our society can pay for the elitist rich - so that the latter can virtue signal about how environmentally concious they are.
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Rhetorical dribble.
Renewable power is set to drive the cost of electricity down and we'd likely already be there if it wan't for pollies working on behalf of fossil-fuel interests.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/australi...newable-energy
I'm certainly not claiming that renewable energy is some sort of magic bullet but it's certainly a step in the right direction.
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by your logic and closed down ALL of Australia's fossil fuel power generation, what would have been the result of our grand sacrifice?
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Dishonest absolutism. If we had a government that took the issue seriously we could've been well on the way to a planned transition by now.
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Originally Posted by Renato1
given that China alone typically adds as much coal-fired power in any three to eight month period as Australia's total capacity, result would be zilch. And with countries like India, Germany and Japan also furiously building new coal fired plants, the answer becomes double-zilch.
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This is simply wrong.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/poli...on-tonnes-2019
Germany is not furiously building new coal plants. They plan to phase out all coal by 2038 and are investing big in renewables.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g...-idUSKCN1PK04L
If countries like ours did their share & didn't sabotage global agreements then the likes of China and India might make more of an effort too.
Climate change deniers have been wrong non-stop for a decade now and are just adding noise to the debate - not facts.
No doubt this thread will be locked very soon
