"Green" policies are destroying this country

Yeah more one offs and endless semi Ds is the way forward of course, we can't let the WEF let us own nothing

The reason there is one-off housing everywhere is because not everyone wants to be shoved into a yellow-pack housing estate where every house looks the same and every 'garden' is 5m X 3m. It's beyond high time that affordable sites for people who want to build their own was made available in and around urban centres and then I'm sure you'd see the ribbon developments stopping. What have the Greens done to address this issue during their tenure, apart from over-riding environmental laws and removing planning permission for massive asylum seeker centres.

I would have thought most of them were built before the housing crisis. Either way, dispersed housing everywhere and urban sprawl of semi Ds around cities is very difficult to cater for with public transport, insane that people think Eamon Ryan could sort it out in 5 years.

Malcolm Roberts Queensland senator said this:

“Those who understand the science understand that it is fundamental. Humans cannot and do not affect the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It's controlled by nature entirely”

“As an engineer educated in atmospheric gases, and as a business manager, I was responsible for 100 of people's lives based on my knowledge of atmospheric gases. I listen to scientists, I cross examine scientists, and I debate the science.

I have never found anyone with logical scientific points based on empirical scientific evidence that shows we have anything to worry about at all. And the basics of this, when you burn a hydrocarbon fuel, you burn molecules containing carbon and hydrogen. With oxygen, they form C02, carbon dioxide, and H2O, water vapor.

That's it. Carbon dioxide is essential for all life. But, let's go beyond the science and have a look at natural experiment. We've had 2 natural experiments, global experiments in the last 14 years:

The first was in 2009 when the use of hydrocarbon fuels in the recession that followed the global financial crisis reduced. There was less carbon dioxide produced from human use of hydrocarbons. And what did that what happened to the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere? It kept increasing.

And what happened in 2020 when we had a a major recession, almost a depression around the world as a result of COVID restrictions placed by governments? We saw the same reduction in hydrocarbon fuel used by humans, the same cut in carbon dioxide output from humans, and yet carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continued increasing.

And, those who understand the science understand that it is fundamental. Humans cannot and do not affect the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It's controlled by nature entirely.”

Or we could shut down our economy altogether.

Anybody that thinks hybrids are good for the environment can't be taken seriously.

Is wind energy a chimera? Yes, according to the analysis below. At 50% capacity factor, wind with open cycle gas turbine (OCGT) backup only breaks even on CO2 emissions compared to baseload from closed cycle gas turbine (CCGT). The wind+OCGT solution is more expensive than CCGT. However, at lower real-world capacity factors wind is more expensive and produces more CO2 emissions.

Wait, though, the above is an amateur attempt. And if wind is absent for an extended period aren't we using CCGT to replace it? Perhaps, but it turns out that using CCGT in this manner reduces its efficiency to that of OCGT as well as causing expensive wear and tear. Here is an Ireland-specific analysis from 2016:

http://euanmearns.com/co2-emissions-variations-in-ccgts-used-to-balance-wind-in-ireland/

This Australian study suggests that the amount of CO2 emissions avoided by wind power is tiny, and it does the job at 50 times greater cost than nuclear:

https://bravenewclimate.com/files/2009/08/peter-lang-wind-power.pdf

And this one from California is especially damning:

"What emerges from this analysis is that in electricity systems that must choose among fossil fuel-fired means of integrating wind volatility, no plausible scenario seems to exist where wind can play a positive role as the means to achieve fossil fuel or greenhouse gas emissions savings."