The IPCC has accepted that colonialism causes climate change. Options for reducing beef-related emissions. Vastly different population trajectories around the world.
Anthony Albanese and his colleagues could surely storm to victory if they enthusiastically acted on the arguments presented by climate experts.They would certainly attract the support of the millions of Australians who understandably fear the consequences of our current, disastrously inadequate approach to this topic. (more…)
The time has come for a powerful government Climate Department to allow strong action on legislating, regulating, and coordinating mitigation, adaptation, and transition. (more…)
Seagrasses are the forgotten but valuable cousins of our coasts. Powerful ‘farmers’ pay lots and lobby hard to avoid regulation, but methane emissions can be reduced.
| Scott Morrison has a problem with climate change which reflects his style of governing. (more…) |
So, is the Morrison Government doing enough to secure the protection of the Great Barrier Reef? The question is almost absurd. The answer is a deafening no. (more…)
The Commonwealth government continues to ignore climate action, while developing countries resist bearing the burden of the renewable energy transition. Scientists say ‘no’ to solar geoengineering.
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If no one has noticed a central pillar of Australia’s risibly inadequate GHG reduction commitment of 26-28% by 2030 has recently been demolished by our own scientists. (more…)
Profits trump health in sacrifice zones, and pollution from the 2019/20 bushfires may increase Australia’s skin cancer rate. Dogs destroying bushland. (more…)
The climate criminals are, of course, seeking to cover their tracks.
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Despite endorsing the IPCC’s findings, and rising emissions, Morrison still supports coal development. New climate-social system model identifies central importance of responsive political institutions for controlling global warming.
| I am, of course, referring to human extinction, whilst countless non-human but, nonetheless, brother and sister species plunge into extinction around us, leaving a void, a silence and a grief. (more…) |
When Scott Morrison chides inundated Australians about expecting too much from the government or the ADF during a crisis, he is not just speaking about the nightmare scale of these catastrophic floods. He is setting expectations for the climate emergency’s cascading disasters. You’re on your own. (more…)
Victoria turns a blind eye to illegal logging while USA maps protected areas. Rich individuals and nations need to reduce their emissions and eliminate global poverty.
Humanity faces a self-interest choice – destruction of our economies, societies and environment with unfettered global warming, or a massive transformation that eliminates man-made carbon outputs. (more…)
All flood crises are more or less wasted, and the ones we have just experienced in New South Wales and Queensland will probably be no different. (more…)
Exposure and vulnerability of various natural and human systems to climate change are discussed at length in the latest IPPC report (6th Assessment Report on impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation). (more…)
Prescribed drugs, government subsidies and deforestation are destroying nature. But nature fights back in Ecuador.
In a country expert in killing off mammal species at a rate exceeding that of others (to be fair, there are so many more to destroy, with more to come), Australians now face the prospect that the koala, one of its most singularly recognisable animals, has its days numbered. (more…)
Climatic trends, extreme conditions and sea level rise are already hitting many of Australia’s ecosystems, industries and cities hard. (more…)
We’re destroying wetlands and their methane is killing us. Big Oil can’t be trusted but nor can the EU’s climate commitments. Boomers leave their great grandkids a tenth of what they enjoyed.
Over 20,000 Rohingya refugees have been recently moved to Bhasan Char, and are at risk of drowning. (more…)
Electric cars sales are booming but so are coal’s, strongly supported by the banks. The Kyoto and Pari agreements fail to keep tabs on military forces’ greenhouse gas emissions.
Greenhouse gases explain the science of climate change but money, greed and deception explain our failure to tackle it.
By 2050 we will consume three earths per year. Degradation of land and the oceans, biodiversity loss and global warming are the direct results.
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We’re facing a climate calamity, yet the PM believes Australians are more focused on the next holiday than threats to their children’s future. (more…)
Tackling the challenges of feeding 10 billion people, keeping our cities cool and meeting the increasing demand for batteries without destroying the environment.
Much of the council’s reporting on the greenhouse gas emissions of agriculture is invalid or misleading and underplays the damaging effects of methane.
The move away from fossil fuels will be felt unevenly across Australia: the communities most exposed to these changes must lead our response.
By relying on consultants for policymaking, the government avoids making any serious contribution to the global effort to minimise temperature rise.