Could we "persuade" the latest "Australian of the Year," David Morrison, to take early retirement like, immediately, and replace him with the person who has made the greatest, boldest and, dare I say it, most "innovative" contribution to Australia so far this year? 
No, I do not mean our first "innovation prime minister", whose one great "innovation" after nearly six months in the job was to finally take something off his "'tax reform table" - nothing less than its centrepiece, an increase in the GST.
The real Aussie of the Year is Larry Marshall, the relatively new CEO of what should be our premier 21st century -research organisation, the CSIRO, but which has been in sad decline for most of this century as it institutionally gulped the Global Warming True Believers Kool-Aid by the gallon while wasting tens of millions of taxpayer dollars.
All Marshall, who has been CEO for a year, has set about doing is what any competent CEO of any organisation would, indeed should do: aim to best, well, marshall its -resources to maximise and -indeed optimise outcomes.
Yet in doing so he -unleashed roars of outrage, for what he was also doing was making the first direct assault, infinitesimally tiny as it was in the global scheme of things, on the climate change gravy train.
This is the train funded by tens of billions of dollars of your money and that of your peers in other developed countries every year, and which rolls continually around the world, stopping every 12 months or so to empty thousands of its passengers at the annual global warming feast otherwise known as "COP" or Conference of Parties.
"All" Marshall has done - and I put the word in quotation marks because in its way it's as big a step as that taken by Neil Armstrong on the moon - is to say: can't some tiny, tiny, bit of that money be better spent?
Instead of spending the money to prove over and over again the supposedly (long since) "settled science", -redirect some of it to research on mitigating or adapting to what that "settled science" is going to deliver?
If you believe in global warming the only logical thing to do is spend the money to prepare for and deal with that heated planet.
We could reduce our emissions in Australia to zero today and it would make not the slightest difference to rising global emissions. It would make not the slightest difference to whatever global warming is going to throw at us this year, next year, forever.
So on all number of levels of rationality, what Marshall has set out to do makes the most basic sense. This is so most -especially if you are a global warming true believer and have some grasp of rationality - it makes sense to spend the money to minimise the expec-ted, indeed inevitable, harm.
This is so, especially for Australia and Australians.It is where - for true -believers - you will get the most bang for your CSIRO -research buck.