Scheduled March 23rd.
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Scheduled March 23rd.
Spur Australian Parliament conscience vote.
Write to your MP.
Sign petition for Bill for Climate Act Now
Parramatta Climate Action Rally, 25th February 2020
Published at Knitting Nanas and Fossil Fool Site
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in the CASSE NSW environment / economy survey.
The Coal Industry has Manipulated and Controlled Australia through the Liberal National Party and Murdoch NewsFork for decades, and looks forwards to ruining it while it profits.
Even aiming to stay within the global warming range of 1.5 to 2 degrees C, the earth systems are pushed on a path that takes us to the kind of climate of 3 million years ago, Pliocene or even 50 million years ago, the Miocene. The Holocene, which nutured our civilizations, is over forever.
Right now, to avoid the extreme, conditions of the Miocene, not compatible with human civilization at all, and insure that only Pliocene conditions are reached, a rapid, global exponential decarbonization is required
David Suzuki points out, that a recent climate science paper says there remains only a 5 percent chance of staying below 2 degrees this Century, and we have actually more chance of reaching 6 degrees of warming (10%), than staying below 2 C. So we'ed better get on with it, as a global apex species, because even 2 degrees is not favourable to the long term survival biosphere apex species such as ourselves. Australia is especially singled out for its rigged corporate games in government..
Everything politicians think they know is most certainly wrong for the real world. Global governments fixation on mutual traded, competitive, exponential, fossil fueled growth. This is the worst possible, long term option ever. There is no wriggle out of contract consequences - Making a Hell of Earth. So what is the cause of this collective insanity? Rapid extinction is nature's unthinking plan for a species that collectively destroys its foundational environment.
The Global Carbon Project, which collects and analyses our global carbon behaviour, shows that nearly everybody is misbehaving.
Growth in global carbon emissions in 2018 looks to be around 2%, which is exactly tied to the rate of economic growth (by GDP)
Growth in Gas was the worst at 3.0%, and almost certainly involves a growth in total methane leakage. It is not provable that the rise in global carbon emissions with GDP has produced a similar rise in global well-being.
New record high of carbon dioxide emissions of 37 billion tonnes for 2018, says we are going to fail very badly.
Humanity are still trying to collectively have infinite growth on this finite planet. Here in Australia, our Prime Madman Scott Morrison, keeps defiantly shouting his "Strong Economy" slogan, in the tones of "Resistance is useless", while Australia burns hotter. After Albert Einstein, we could say that only one thing is infinite, and that is human collective stupidity.
Absent any serious form of global self-control, human global demolition will be future choked by several possible natural "Limits to Growth". Given our massed social and technical ingenuity, we might even manage to have several at once. We might escape the global decline in essential heavy fuel oil supply to power our global big machines, or spend all our energies against the inexorable rise in new climate disasters. This is probably already out of our control, as we struggle to keep creating new limits by growing our ongoing demolition of biodiversity and natural sustainability.
If enough people demand it, governments could declare a climate emergency tomorrow, and we could all get on with the job of fixing it.
Politics, especially when our leaders utilise the media, is almost indistinguishable from marketing. Denial by marketing becomes all inclusive. Sticking to the marketing sales line, means denial of climate emergency, denial of technology change, and denial of total systems change.
World economic forum site article - "Zero by 2050: How the world's economy has planned to battle climate change" states the bare facts of what needs to be done to avoid a complete global climate systems collapse of civilisation. Several nations have already set their target sights. The costs of growth business as usual should now be unthinkable, and business as usual growth projections are now the unrealistic ones.
Transformation yes, growth no. Some nations and regions have set good plans in motion already. Some others are still lagging. It is question of change now or be destroyed in the future by climate crisis. The first reductions are the easiest and fastest. There are also direct benefits of transformation.
I attended the National Climate Emergency Summit 2020 at Melbourne Town Hall 14-15 February. ( #NCES2020 ) It is all about declaring a global climate emergency.
The summit was pre-sold out, and massively attended. All the main stage sessions were live streamed, so the total live audience, was much larger still. For later reference, I hope that recordings of the sessions will be soon be available online. The parallel break out sessions will be made available as podcasts. I felt thoroughly brain smashed by 2 days of intense watching and listening, despite having a long interest in these issues. It is only 2 days later of sleep recovery and processing that I feel able to start writing about it. There were many interesting themes and threads to follow.
The worth of the conference includes being able to see together so many people that have a common view our climate emergency and urgency. The people who still need to publicly recognise our dire global and national climate emergency were not at the conference. What a wasted opportunity, as they could all have learned so much, since Australia urgently needs to set about reorganising our energy, economic, social and governance systems. We must cut global greenhouse gas emissions by 50% over the next 10 years. Forget about our economy, as it will be stuffed if we don't do it.
For more explanation, find out what this planet was like, the last time carbon dioxide rose to hostile hot earth levels, at the time of the Paleo-Eocene Thermal Maximum.
Elites (survivors) might live somehow in enclaves around the polar oceans, and may need oxygen supplementation and CO2 scrubbing in their artificial habitats, as they go down the evolutionary drain.
For Australian governments, even their stretched promises of meeting 2030 emissions targets are outright lies, going by current policy settings.
Thermal Coal mines are stranded assets, and so are oil and gas reserves, according to our global carbon budget. But we are still firmly on the global heating path, which is moving closer and faster on towards global mass extinctions and industrial civilisation collapse. The large foreign corporations still vested in economic growth, in Australia, have as their weapons the influence peddling of their industry associations, the "Minerals Councils", which are tightly linked to political parties both by donations and personnel. They are bent on retaining income from their invested capital, despite declining economic prospects. This is seriously detrimental for a viable future for Australian people.
. . . as investigative journalist Michael West’s website has exposed in its “Revolving Doors” project, the prime minister’s office is stacked full of ex–Minerals Council executives, such as John Kunkel and Brendan Pearson, hardened pro-coal warriors who will never budge. The Morrison government owes its very existence to a staggering $89 million advertising campaign by would-be Galilee Basin coalminer Clive Palmer, and other fossil-fuel donors contributed heavily. A federal ICAC – with teeth – cannot come soon enough.
Decades ago, the clean energy revolution and threat of global heating, promised to one day make the Coal Industry a dirty old relic. Now global heating is experienced as dangerous reality, and renewable energy is a cheaper option, the big banks know the Coal Industry to be the biggest near-term money loser, as this ABC article link shows.
Coal as profit losers before including also their system impacts, like climate change, as our all-time big market and political failures. Side effects for profits never have bothered our governments, and now the long term side-effects are national survival issues.
When will the political money-hog classes of Australia wake up too? Too bad Australia has a typical money power structure of democratic government. Promises of money generated by perceived mining opportunity has long dominated our governments. Prime Scott Morrison is still at it, with his talk of $70 billion dollar mining industry, that cannot be sacrificed for climate policy, as if Coal Industry all there is to Australia. No, its just all there is for Scott Morrison and his mining mates.
We still have too many third-rate political dummy time-wasters in the ranks and leadership of the LNP and ALP, sponsored by deep infiltration and control by the Minerals Council of Australia. The process of energy transition off fossil fuels, is hampered by mates networks of vested money interests that still fail to understand their policies as national road-blocks. Your continent, your life.
Even the banks still not yet really letting go of money first philosophy. Costs of extraction rise, economic system affordability falls, Coal is now a capitalist loser. Money systems have no sympathy. What else remains to be slain by the growing costs to global ecosystems, of providing energy, water and myriads of stuff for our endless growth demands of global civilisation?
Mike Clarke, professor of zoology, La Trobe University, gives a short interview to RN Breakfast, and expresses concern that Australia flora and fauna will not fully recover from the impacts of the large scale devastating bush fires we have just had.
The reason for this graphic, with a thermometer showing 1 to 5 degrees C of average global heating on the left, and the extinction symbol on the right, with a symbolic rising graph from left to right, is to display as a simple iconography, the dangerous association that so many of our fossil fool national governments and international corporations reject outright from their operational consciousness.
The extinction symbol itself as been adopted and made widely known by Extension Rebellion movement. This movement has resolved that we should tell the truth about climate change, to ourselves and the world, and change our system behaviours according to this truth.
A practical ecologist talks about successes of dry country reforestation in the Niger Republic. Reforestation is an essential part of saving Australia. Where are Australia's ecology and climate restoration teams? How close are we now to ecological collapse?
But a crisis needs to be called out for what it is. No other designation will result in the required concerted corrective action necessary to solve the problem.
The chinese company is called "Joyful View Garden Real Estate Development Resort Pty Ltd". Council approved to pump 96 litres of aquifer water every day, for next 92 years. Who will check to limit their pumping?
What an imaginative label they will have on their bottled water. A joyful view of dried up Australia?
This is corporate-government water crime. The regional council approved the water mining grant, and then imposed more severe water restrictions on residents the next day. No doubt some desperate money changed hands.
Crazy as water trucks carrying relief supplies pass corporate trucks carrying water going the other way to the bottling plants. This seems to be the latest get rich business venture in "sell water for money" in Queensland.
Federal and State governments in Australia are still too much lying prone, and denying even their climate change denial, during our climate emergency multiple crises of drought and massive wildfire season, or are they just very prone to lying. They need to be shown real leadership.
Hence I will be spending time and money on a rare interstate visit to this --
National Climate Emergency Summit - Melbourne - February 14-15 2020
You don't have to be world recognized climate scientist to come here and see how we are making global heating worse. Professor Michael Mann is an early pioneer of Australia's new seasonal tourism industry - The "Smoke Haze" of climate destruction, up close. How good is that?
From the online news limited article -- Scott Morrison opens the door to an ‘evolution’ of his government’s climate change policy
Scott Morrison is under climate policy pressure, and he would be better off by calming down, really listening, becoming better informed, and not forcing out manic sound bytes in a panic.
This current media nibbles policy sales spiel sounds very defensive and rattled. Only the "good" or meaningless statistics are quoted --"Emissions today are 50 million tonnes less on average each year under our government than under the previous government" . What an over-under-qualified mind twister!
Australian total emissions have been steadily increasing over last four and a half years
I heard our Prime Minister defending his governments climate policy on ABC radio interview this morning, 12th January 2020. From rises in tone of voice, I thought the main emotional sticking point that squeaked out was the risk to "billion dollar industries" that provide jobs". I translated this to be market-speak for the billionaire miners who fund government political parties and election campaigns, hence Scott Morrison's Job, and take billions of dollars and fossil fuels out of our country, where money and emissions becomes un-accountable to Australia. This is a most amazing carbon emissions and tax scam. That being said, this recent article in the Guardian points out many ways how Australian climate policy myths are worked in order that some few have lots of money, by avoiding real change and fair-dinkum emissions reductions. Kyoto credits must have gone up in smoke by now, with our unprecedented bushfires.
Science study was done on Siberian cave in limestone with stalagmite formations. Rates of formation are proxy records of past carbon fluxes with global heating. Science study infers that the coming ice free summers in the Arctic will have accelerated permafrost thawing. Not good news, as this global heating accelerator is already warming up.
Global warming moves pole-wards like a bulldozer, pushing more in front, the further it goes.
I was standing in it, here outside Sydney Town Hall. ( Pictures ) It is a long time since I experienced a mass rally so packed and overflowing, and loud. The conventional online media are hiding their reports of this, if they have bothered at all. Even the ABC hid it way down the bottom of their additional online news page. The facebook event page showed 10,000+ people to arrive, and 27,000 interested. The speakers tore the climate negative actions of the Australian Federal government to shreds. A long packed street march followed. Escalation actions are rolling on. The climate bush-fire emergency continues. Online petition to dissolve the current federal parliament here.
Richard Dennis in a guardian article Jan 09th 2020, called Australian Conservative Politicians out for being "Trolls" on climate change, in political fracas during our climate expanded bush-fire season. Richard Dennis is an economist with "The Australia Institute" think tank, and he asks why conservatives connected to the coal industry completely ignore all the future costs when it comes to climate change.
In particular he referred to an often used myth in justifications of climate change denial. "CO2 is plant food", which seems to imply to the target audience - How could you be so stupid? Doesn't everyone knows that?
Just to show, in 2019, some Australian mining notables are still deadly serious about propagating this myth. 'CO2 is plant food': Australian group signs international declaration denying climate science.
