As MExSc and BSc I understand very well the trials and...

As MExSc and BSc I understand very well the trials and tribulations that go into creating the 'science'

Every scientist knows that most of what you know to be fact today and what is accepted by the majority of the scientific community will be wrong in the future.

The key element in the 'science' lies in the evolution of the 'facts'

Our beliefs must charge as the statistical evidence overwhelming points to the same conclusion. We call it accuracy and repeatability.

You can always draw different connections and conclusions in relation to 'human induced climate change', however, the more time you unbiasly look at the spred of evidence, the more times it becomes apparent that humans are negatively affecting the earth.

I believe that acting on our own with such poor reduction targets will not achieve the 'desired outcome' and is therefore a fruitless and burdensome initiative.

While our per capita emmisions are high, we don't live in an Australian atmosphere bubble.

To remain competitive in Industry, we will outsource to high emmision, high population, low per capita emision countries. But we still don't reach our objective. We only make Australia a less wealthy country with a low population in comparison to SE asian region. We effectively disempower ourselves.

To suggest that a substance is harmless at one concentration means that it is harmless at all concentrations is ludicrace. For anyone other than specialist scientists to comment on the effects or presumed effects is inappriopriate and disrespectful to the individuals who toil over the numbers day in and day out.

In saying this, what is a bad thing for one part of nature will be a good thing for another. That is how evolution works. As a human however, I couldn't care less if tomatoes are triving while the ecosystem that I need to survive as a human, collapses, or should I say evolves.

Finally, if we are serious about the issue, we will properly invest in renewables. To think that we are giving it even a half hearted effort is a joke. Between the wind, wave and sunlight that we do not utilise, we would go a great ways to helping ourselves out. With further advances we will harness energy from a very many other potential sources that hide under our noses.

The truth is that our government and status quo earn too much money from our reliance on fossil fuels. I don't see a real change that will produce the outcomes we all need as humans, coming anytime soon