The Uranium industry is quietly rehabilitating itself, while even the coal industry is on a roll, as smelting enough silica to produce all those politically-correct solar cells will call for the expenditure of more energy than the solar cells can generate in their lifetimes and will require the construction of additional coal-fired power stations, and charcoal from millions of trees for the smelting process.
While Tasmania has been spared new hydro-electric power, the Western Tiers will no doubt be enhanced by the busy hum of thousands of aesthetically designed windmills.
Despite solid evidence that graphs of the Earth's mean temperatures of the last few thousand years have exactly corresponded with the sunspot cycle, anyone who does not agree that the human race by producing greenhouse gases is the cause of global warming is publicly deemed a fool or unfit to hold their job.
The planet Mars has an atmosphere consisting almost entirely of carbon dioxide and yet is colder than the hairs on a Polar Bear's butt - no global warming there.
Millions of years of ice ages and interglacial periods have come and gone with no human intervention whatever. Accordingly, global warming could be classed as a bona fide religion and given the appropriate tax breaks, while its gurus should perhaps be ordained as ministers to give their edicts greater status.
Of course, all this could be reversed when the present solar cycle, busier this last 40 years than any time in the last two thousand, comes to an end and the planet starts to cool again, unless the global warming gurus claim all the credit. Wait and see… And remember, you read it here first!