Another $billion diverted from the most needed protection of the Reef – stopping GHG emissions

William P. Hall on January 27, 2022

Rob Harris 27/01/2022 in The Age
Morrison promises extra $1 billion to save the Great Barrier Reef

Added comment: Another $billion distraction by the COALition puppets in Parliament to divert attention from the fact that they are protecting their special interest patrons by doing nothing to solve the existentially dangerous climate emergency. Vote them out of office!

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A Canadian take on Don’t Look Up and the need to influence their Parliament

William P. Hall on January 27, 2022

Kathryn Harrison & Simon Donner, 26/01/2022 in The Conversation
The climate crisis demands courage not optimism

Added comment: The authors seem to take the IPCC’s complacent assumptions that reaching zero emissions will be enough to solve the climate crisis. There are strong reasons for thinking the situation is actually far more serious – multiply emphasizing their conclusion that the Canadian Parliament must recognize the need to mount a global war effort if our species is to survive.

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Managing resources to reduce battery costs for zero emissions

William P. Hall on January 26, 2022

Davide Castelvecchi – 17/08/2021 in Nature
Electric cars and batteries: how will the world produce enough?

Added comment: Good review of how to reduce battery costs costs for electrifying fossil fuel driven private transport. Not discussed here is that the fabrication of private vehicles consumes way more resources than just what is required for the power train. If we are serious about stopping and reversing global warming we will need to do more than just stop carbon emissions. Major savings on all sorts of resource requirements can be made by replacing private vehicles with electric bicycles and public transport and delivery. A good project for someone who is good with numbers would be to calculate the global footprint required to produce a private car for a person/family vs how many people/families without a private car could occupy that same footprint.

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Coal assets face rapid stranding from green tech

William P. Hall on January 26, 2022

New technologies dispatching power from sustainable long-term storage threaten to put coal-based dispatchable power stations out of business

We may be sitting on the green energy missing link – don’t tell the Coalition. Photo: TND

By Alan Kohler, 24/01/2022 in the Newdaily

Long-duration energy storage systems are writing coal’s death certificate
Australia is sprinting towards 100 per cent renewable energy, 24/7, 365 days a year, but very few are ready for it, least of all the coal industry and its subsidiary, the Morrison government.

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