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Australian MPs: Act now! Later may be too late!
Human activities are triggering self-reinforcing existential climate risks that are growing more lethal with time — our extinction is likely Over the last 200 years prodigious amounts of carbon-based fossil fuels (coal, oil, methane) have been burned to produce waste gases (mostly CO₂) and useful energy to drive the Industrial Revolution, our affluence, our toys,…
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More on our warming World Ocean’s revenge…
Following on from my May 22 post, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology is raising warning flags that the impending El Niño will be the worst yet. https://twitter.com/LeonSimons8/status/1660912578401296384 There is actually a lot more on the front burner than El Niño. There are signs we may have just crossed a catastrophic ocean tipping point over the…
A warming ocean will take its revenge on us
Around 90% of the extra heat trapped by the greenhouse layer warms our Ocean to slow rising temperatures. We’ll pay the price. The climate scientist, Bill McKibben reminded me of this fact in his regular newsletter, The Crucial Years, in his 18 May post, Maybe we should have called this planet ‘Ocean’. His post on…
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Utter insanity: they’ll outlaw gravity next
As if a planetary system is going to pay an iota of attention to what Iowa thinks. New law says state regulations must ignore climate change! The only people who will suffer will be those harmed by and dying from increasingly extreme weather events as a consequence of global warming from the fossil fuel industry’s…
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Puppet politics: Majority governments work for themselves
Labor puppets will work to benefit fossil fuel industries’ continued hyper-profitable exploitation come hothouse hell or high water flooding! How do we know this? In the feature article here, Fake Reform: Jim Chalmers’ itsy-bitsy tax “hit” is a gift for foreign fossil fuel giants, Michael West Media compares the Australian experience with fossil fuel exploitation…
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Meteorologists report weather – they don’t make it!
Meteorologists are being threatened and abused for forecasting and reporting record high temperatures and weather extremes. Last week Spain recorded the highest April temperature on record (38.8 °C) following on from last year, 2022, its hottest year since records began. Nearly 75 percent of Spain is susceptible to desertification due to climate change. Water reservoirs…
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