Whatever the outcome of Saturday’s green-tainted global-warming-fixated Wentworth by-election, it won’t knock King Coal off his economy-boosting throne. And there will be no prospect whatsoever of Australians bowing to greenie demands to give up eating meat in order to remove the atmospheric consequences of bovine flatulence. No matter how committed the Labor-staffed ‘Independent’ Dr Phelps may be to hike carbon emission targets (and stop the Adani coal mine), Australia will continue expanding further as the world’s biggest coal shipper and a major exporter of beef.