Read this! putting the climate emergency in context

William P. Hall on February 25, 2022

This 50th Anniversary interview with a “Limits to Growth” author puts the work in context and shows more to do than just stopping warming

by Richard Heinberg & Dennis Meadows, 22/02/2022 in Resilience.org
Dennis Meadows on the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Limits to Growth: Only rarely does a book truly change the world. In the nineteenth century, such a book was Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. For the twentieth century, it was The Limits to Growth. Not only did this best-selling 1972 publication help spur the environmental movement, but it showed that the underlying dynamics of the modern industrial world are unsustainable on the timescale of a couple of human lifetimes.

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Facebook still spreading fake climate news & denial

William P. Hall on February 25, 2022

Analysis shows that about half the posts from long established and well-known fake news publishers were posted with no warnings from Facebook

by Elizabeth Culliford, 24/02/2022 in Reuters Technology
Facebook did not label posts from top climate change deniers, report says: Facebook did not add labels to half of posts pushing content from top climate change deniers, according to an analysis from the Center for Countering Digital Hate

  • See also: The Toxic Ten: How 10 fringe publishers fuel 69% of digital climate change denial

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Coral reef ecosystems on the way to being cooked

William P. Hall on February 24, 2022

The accelerating heat content of the world’s oceans will soon be forcing coral reef ecosystems towards their collapse into mass extinction

Click here for a detailed explanation of the graph…

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Insane Gov’t stops replacing of burnt community hall

William P. Hall on February 24, 2022

COALition Gov’t bureaucracy blocks grant to cover costs to replace Sarsfield (Vic) Community Centre incinerated in Black Summer

by Jedda Costa, 21/02/2022 in ABC News (Gippsland)
Bushfire-ravaged Sarsfield misses out on recovery grant due to ABN issue

The bushfire ravaged town of Sarsfield in eastern Victoria’s Gippsland region has missed out on a $3.6 million recovery grant to build a new community hall at a recreation reserve.

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High Arctic is warming 4x faster than the world

William P. Hall on February 24, 2022

The true Arctic zone above the Arctic Circle that drives world climate change is heating at a prodigious rate. Bad news for our one Earth!

See the full article….

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What do you fix first? Methane or CO₂?

William P. Hall on February 24, 2022

Methane is more powerful than CO₂ but has a relatively short life in the atmosphere. CO₂ hangs around for centuries. Both are bad news!

by John Lynch, 21/02/2022 in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Fatal distraction: the problem with the methane pledge

Over the past year, the world has experienced severe heatwaves, wildfires, and drought. As global temperature continues to creep upwards, these events will become more frequent and more extreme. Obviously, humanity needs to make a concerted effort to rapidly bring down greenhouse gas emissions to limit warming to 1.5-2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, as global leaders agreed to do when they signed the Paris Agreement.

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Interesting: green power can avoid winter blackouts

William P. Hall on February 24, 2022

Washington Post analyzes last winter’s Texas Blackout to show renewable energy networks can cope better than fossil fuel based systems

by Kasha Patel, 21/02/2022 in The Washington Post
A year after Texas cold spell, study shows renewable energy could help prevent blackouts

Electricity blackouts could be avoided across the nation by switching to solar, wind and water energy sources, the report argues

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Offshore wind generation set to grow fast in USA

William P. Hall on February 23, 2022

Projects in pipeline promise more than Biden’s 30 GW by 2030, but struggle for financing. Why can’t govt. provide it in climate emergency?

by Emma Penrod, 17/02/2022 in UTILITYDIVE
Offshore wind on track to hit, possibly exceed Biden’s 30 GW target by 2030

Two independent analyses completed this month have determined that the U.S. is now on track to deploy at least 30 GW of offshore wind generation by 2030, meeting a key goal established by the Biden administration.

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Humanity’s massive carbon footprint on our only planet

William P. Hall on February 23, 2022

Almost without exception, every one of those traces was made by burning prodigious quantities of fossil carbon to heat our only world.

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It’s Getting Hotter and Hotter

Rob Bakes on January 13, 2022

Australia is finally having a hot summer. Today even Crikey’s Worm had something to say about it:

WHAT THE FRACK

Australia equalled our hottest day on record yesterday — the mercury reached 50.7C in Onslow, WA at about 2:30pm, the BBC reports. Usually the temperature in Onslow is 36.5C around this time of year, WA Today adds. It comes just days after the EU’s satellite confirmed the last seven years have been the hottest on record — heatwaves are just one of the several dire outcomes the IPCC say humanity will suffer from if we do not act on climate change.

Australia, as one of the world’s biggest per-capita emitters of greenhouse gas emissions, is breaching human rights — that’s the conclusion of the World Report 2022 from Human Rights Watch, who said our government’s climate policy is actively unstitching our human rights record. It’s the first time there has been a Climate Change Policy and Impacts section as part of the organisation’s annual assessment.

Queensland’s emissions target of a 30% reduction by 2030 would be “[blown] out of the water”, an expert has told Guardian Australia, if the Lake Eyre basin is opened up to fracking to extract gas. Origin Energy got the green light in late December to explore the area — which is one of the last major free-flowing desert river systems — but fracking could see 199m tonnes spewed into the atmosphere every year. The government says the lease is for “exploration only” at this stage.

Followed by Argentina, the hottest place in South America, Australia yesterday had the hottest place on our only planet (almost ever!). If we don’t do something serious to stop the continuing progress of global warming, we haven’t seen anything yet.

Unfortunately, Scott Morrison and his LNP Coalition Parliament are doing all they can to keep the fossil fuel special interests that sponsor them in business when they actually need to be shut down to help resolve the still escalating climate emergency. Vote Climate One’s Traffic Light Voting Guide will help you remove your local LNP member or camp follower, or to ensure that your preferences don’t go towards supporting the election of one of their clowns.

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