No expense spared: Police helicopters and boats patrol to mark the occasion

Some young people in Australia, have realized, from a sane ecological perspective, that continuing our addiction to fossil fuels, which started growth of modern techno-industrial civilization (MTIC - overshoot creation of homo colossus, the detritivore) using coal, is already taking our biosphere rapidly towards a future where earth's climate will be unfit for survival.  Most of earth's larger and slow reproducing species, including humans, will go extinct our predicted future hot-house earth. Many people of various "walks of life", a good representation of Australian Society, have gathered around Newcastle to take part in this organized "Protestival" over several days.

They are doing a temporary blockade of passage of Coal Ships that need to cross the narrow waters of the Newcastle harbor channel, over this weekend. This is symbolic as far as the annual coal shipment figures are concerned, but there were still official legal hurdles to overcome, such as police actions that are paid for by taxpayers.

Here is a few more pictures and news-clip, from members of ParraCAN, and participants in this Rising-Tide event.

Typical coal bulk transport ship navigates the Newcastle channel

Lots of kayaks nearby ready for action

Some young people in Australia, have realized, from a sane ecological perspective, that continuing our addiction to fossil fuels, which started growth of modern techno-industrial civilization using coal, is already taking our biosphere rapidly towards a future where earth's climate will be unfit for survival.  Most of earth's larger and slow reproducing species, including humans, will quickly go extinct in the climate of our predicted future hot-house earth. Many people have gathered around Newcastle to take part in this organized "Protestival" over several days. They are doing a temporary blockade of passage of Coal Ships that need to cross the narrow waters of the Newcastle harbor channel, over this weekend. This is symbolic as far as the annual coal shipment figures are concerned, but there were still official legal hurdles to overcome, and all the police actions are paid for by taxpayers.

Climate change, is the politically correct term for human released green house gases heating oceans and atmosphere with a rapidity that has never happened before in this planets known history. The important figure here is the rate of temperature rise. It is now going up to 0.4 degrees C "per decade", and getting faster. Just the last few years added another 0.2 degrees C to our average global temperature. Conventional climate scientists have said that known climate science cannot explain the current acceleration above climate model predictions. Our climate data is statistical, and algorithms and models, no matter how complex, are approximations. The direction and speed of change are all we really need to know in order to realize that this biosphere is in for big trouble.

Northern hemisphere permafrost is melting with faster methane release, which is a very potent GHG, Overall "carbon sinks" of this biosphere are no longer absorbing the amounts of carbon dioxide excess that they once did. We are now in a state of global "climate tipping" towards a hot-house earth. Global species extinction rates are set to rise, beyond that already enabled by non-climate impacts of global human civilization.

If ever there is a good time for a political panic, to put on the fossil fuel brakes, it is now. There is no way to avoid global MTI systems collapse. Using up fossil fuels as fast as possible, with ever increasing inefficiency, will only speed up our global climate demise. Obsession with climate global temperature thresholds of 1.5 or 2.0 degrees C are just plain silly. What matters is the global warming speed at which we are breaking, but not braking, through these global markers of global heating acceleration.

It is unfortunate that so many still believe the marketing hype for a generalized "Green Transition". This is sometimes known as "hopium". By such means of "renewable" energy harvesting technology, it is hoped to save this high-energy civilization from its ongoing collapse. The facts and arguments against success are simple.

The transition isn't and will never be green, because all such technology is still made with energy, minerals and materials from everywhere, all still mined with dirty fossil fuels, which speeds up our global heating. It is not yet even remotely becoming a transition, because of Jevon's Paradox, plus our rapid net energy decline, plus our biosphere is already in decline from human impacts that are independent of the existence of climate change.

Renewables enable us to waste even more energy. We still increase fossil fuel mining, because of absolute energy hunger and total energy blindness. At best renewable energy technology provides energy to offset ongoing decline in net energy yield from fossil fuel mining. The absolute quantity of fossil fuel burning is still rising.

Renewable electricity, solar panels, wind turbines, battery storage, electric vehicles, all seem very "clean" once built and installed. As does most MTIC technology that attracts approval at consumers end-point. They are heavily marketed. They give MTIC a possibility of pleasant environment, when they are far removed from their origins in fossil fuel powered heavy mining with widespread environment impacts, and yet they still isolate humans even more from the enjoyment of healthy natural ecosystems we once co-inhabited.

China, supposedly world leader in renewable energy systems creation, looks like it might achieve at best a "relative" transition, for a few decades. China has boosted the electrification of its energy economy to about 30%. China does have declining population demographics, which imply a real reduction in its total energy requirements.

The money, time, and total energy and mineral resources that are required to significantly "transit" this MTIC off fossil fuel dependency have been totalled up. This is compared to major shortfalls in all practicial future available resources, and the verdict is a green transition is physically impossible, and is being used as a political excuse for not taking the real necessary climate actions that absolutely require diminution of all human activities that depend on fossil fuel burning.

Geologist Simon Michaux  has done a lot of data gathering and number crunching to prove and publish the impossibility of a "green transition". He now researchers some "maybe" possible methods to continue a form of restricted MTI as a "Purple Transition". Areas to dig deep include garage-sized thorium - powered nuclear energy reactors, and burning iron powders for vehicle internal combustion engines. This appears to be really "clutching at straws"? No one wants to MTIC to die, as we are culturally and physiologically adapted to the cocoons of MTIC. A Green Transition is a deadly form of "bargaining" as we deny that MTIC is as mortal as we are.

Our future is biological, as we are still biological beings. Only if our species can survive the present train-wreck messes of MTIC.

Meanwhile, conventional "developed, civilized" governments just pretend it isn't happening. Climate conferences are now nakedly just fossil-fuel corporate marketing meet-ups. The best use of an intercontinental ballistic missile right now, would be to take out an entire greedy clique of fossil fuel global criminals at the COP29 in Baku,

Big government parties are more interested in serving corporate bosses than working for global climate survival