Firstly, I guess some of the urgency comes down to whether or not you think climate change is real and that it needs to be acted upon with some urgency.
As to the cause of the outage it is not quite as simple as that.
The SA government certainly believes in climate change since they decided to move away from coal and now get most of their energy from renewables.
But because of this, they got blamed for the blackouts by the opposition parties, who put the blackout down to the mad rush into renewables.
Now there is an election coming up next year, so I have no doubt the opposition would have used that same argument during that election.
But where I think this might backfired and why I think the SA Premier has come up with a master stroke, is come this December SA will have it's battery and in part because of climate change, it will be stinking hot all over Australia.
So if the SA battery works as designed and helps to keep all the SA air conditioners running at maximum, it will be a very big win for the SA Government.
As to the cause of the outage it is not quite as simple as that.
The SA government certainly believes in climate change since they decided to move away from coal and now get most of their energy from renewables.
But because of this, they got blamed for the blackouts by the opposition parties, who put the blackout down to the mad rush into renewables.
Now there is an election coming up next year, so I have no doubt the opposition would have used that same argument during that election.
But where I think this might backfired and why I think the SA Premier has come up with a master stroke, is come this December SA will have it's battery and in part because of climate change, it will be stinking hot all over Australia.
So if the SA battery works as designed and helps to keep all the SA air conditioners running at maximum, it will be a very big win for the SA Government.