Climate Change is and has always been a reality in our world. In...

Climate Change is and has always been a reality in our world. In my 80 yrs. of life I notice that this CHANGE is happening faster and larger and larger populations are being adversely affected, so much so that once idyllic places to live are being threatened. Scientists have been researching this phenomenon since 70s and before. A sort of consensus finding is that the accumulation of CO2 and methane in the atmosphere contributes to this experience of faster and destructive change to the nature and the environment. The increasing use Fossil Fuels since the dawn of the industrial age liberates CO2 and methane into our environment . Exxon Mobil started studying this relationship back in the 80s and found this causal relationship. An executive decision was taken NOT to publish this finding. And thus started the ERA of the big lie.
Australia has suffered more than most from the promotion of this lie.
In 2007 both the LNP and ALP went to the polls with similar energy policies. Even then Howard recognised the inherent dangers to an economy that was solely Fossil Fuel based and that a Transition to some form of Renewables would have to commence soon or later.
Abbott broke this consensus and resolved to base his career on promoting EXXON truth. Climate Change is crap, he intoned.
And thus started the long winter of delaying the INEVITABLE TRANSITION. It lasted to the election of 2022.
Now a moderate ALP is trying to transition while listening to all sections of our community.
This transition is being hampered in part by gov regulation. This is so slow. Europe has legislated that it cannot take longer than ONE year to approve a project. Solar and wind projects and transmission lines are waiting.
Central to all this is the PLACE of GREEN HYDROGEN. It is NOT a FUEL. It is an export as an EMBODIED agent of change.