Even with a humanistic accounting regime and the needed changes to make the necessary reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the cost of achieving the goals of averting catastrophic climate change will be high. - Systemic Disorder

The price of not seriously addressing global warming will be vastly greater than any economic costs we can impose on each other. How can systems blinkered by narrow self-interest save themselves?

We have zero years before climate and ecological breakdown, because it’s already here. We have zero years left to procrastinate. - All climate science experts agree, there isn't any time left.  Peter Kalmus, Jennifer Francis, Michael Mann, Holly Jean Buck say it is our prime emergency right now.

The global warming club of the G20 - China, Russia, Brazil and Australia, all have energy policies associated with future atmosphere over heating of 5° C.  G20 nations as a whole are responsible for 85% of current rates of global carbon emissions. Negotiations are going badly, while global climate extremes are on a roll, striking somewhere new every week. Severe floods have struck Germany, China and England.  Before was the heat waves and fires.  The climate apocalypse isn't waiting for warming to reach 1.5°. And earth's energy imbalance which sets the rate of warming, has doubled in the last 15 years.

Heard about Beetaloo? Get used to hearing that word a lot. It will become as well-known as ‘Adani’ in the coming years. Here’s why.

The Liberals are climate criminals but Labor is backing them. In fact, Labor is no longer divided on climate: they have come down firmly on the side of coal and gas.

Over a decade of paying for oil and gas fracking industry in the USA, investors are waking up to their big losses. It was never going to pay. Not now, not ever. Australian investors in its foreign firms "gas-led" recovery should start paying attention. Who are these duped investors? Pension funds? It must be so easy to be careless in the use of other peoples money. The damages to life, local environment and future climate costs are cumulatively enormous, and will never be rectified by any amount of money. A decade of billions of investor money down the drain for fracking in the USA proves that the oil and gas frackers are the sweetest of talkers. At last, investors there are deciding not to lose any more money for drilling. A pity about our planet. We are not called "fossil fools" for nothing. When do Australian investors and government wake up?

Building sustainable communities is the antidote to fear of a changing climate.

Somebody ought to tell the farmers, and the Nationals party, that having more forested landscape increases the amounts of local rain.
On a dry, drought afflicted continent, you might think these facts would mean something.
Past civilisations generally collapsed after their forests were cut down as once fertile lands turn into desert.
Politicians are handed good plans of how to fix our deforestation habits, but politics thinks it knows better.
Global warming requires forest growth and increase, not land clearing. 

"One path leads to suffering and ruin. The other to a safe and vital future. But you must leave fossil fuels behind" -- Climate Scientist Michael Mann

Robert Hunziker says of the publication that shows global heating rate doubling over the last fourteen years - "If this one report does not turn heads and create a sense of panic to get off fossil fuels, as soon as yesterday, then nothing will ever move the needle to fix the planet’s broken climate system."

and

"Frankly, the world is getting what it deserves and what it has failed to recognize in spite of the world’s top scientists’ warnings, a lot of heat!"

The Liberal National Parties and Australian Labor Party take millions of dollars in donations from public subsidized corporations that don't even get taxed. How is that for self interest?
Are the political parties just extensions of the foreign corporations, or are these corporations vehicles for private interests of the politicians. I cannot say, it can be both at the same time.

Adam Bandt speech youtube excepts - "We don't have time left. ...This is not just a climate crime, this is state sanctioned corruption".
Probably our political corruption has to be typical of all nations in late industrial civilisation.

Tune: I'm just a girl who can't say no.

Solists in lip sync synchrony: Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese.

It ain't so much a question of not knowing what do,
Climate Science told us long ago.
We know what soon will happen as we play the fossil fool,
The end of everything we love and know.

Author of this article acknowledges the recent CounterPunch article on this same topic, "Planet Earth is Heating Up Faster" by Manuel Garcia, Jr. A good article, but I want to do my own version using the original referred science article, "Satellite and Ocean Data Reveal Marked Increase in Earth's Heating Rate". It deserves as much political attention as possible.

The ABC web site here has an animated info-graphic about why Australia needs to be acting very seriously right now on global climate mitigation. The date 2050 only has a chance of working if we all start reducing emissions now. Our government continually tries to ignore this simple principle, and so the only conclusion I have is has harmful intentions. The carbon budget limits are fuzzier, more uncertain and more dangerous than the simple graphics can show.

By extracting and burning more carbon every year, we are mostly likely to overshoot our climate targets much sooner. Australian climate policy is currently a race to spend and profit from a bigger portion of the global carbon budget. The very fact of being told their is a global limit, has only encouraged fossil fuel mining corporations, to try and use up the most first. Every improvement in efficiency, every substitution by renewable energy, has become an economic excuse to have more energy, do more things, make more stuff and still burn more fossil energy as well. The brakes to fossil fuel machines need to even more strongly applied now.

A civilization shrink is required, so let us start with some serious psychiatric therapy.

Talking about ambitious goals of reducing carbon emissions by another industrial revolution, might help our bad case of multiple double-thinks.

From the recent IEA report overview, the current state of the global art of global emissions reduction is "promises, promises", while global energy demand and carbon emissions continue to grow. CO2 emissions are in rebound to catchup to normal growth rates after the global COVID impact. Adding more renewable energy just results in more growth by Jevon's Effect. Renewable energy brings down the total energy bill. Renewable energy makes it easier to increase total energy consumption, with more coal and gas. The IEA has a separate report, no doubt incompatible with the regular general progress report. "Net zero by 2050" It asks for dramatic overall changes. Global civilization shows no inclination to change its inherent cancerous nature and will never make a big voluntary effort to even slow growth. Technology change is promoted as the path forwards, while behavior change has the least scope.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) isn't very forwards on global climate mitigation, as net zero by 2050 is not early enough and thorough enough. Net carbon removal from the atmosphere needs happen. What year the world is likely to go past two degrees depends on who is talking, but it is well within this half-century.

There are many problems to come, including our existing "locked-in" warming overhang to continue decades. By 2035 or earlier, the Arctic Summer Ice will be all gone, weather systems even more altered, and 2 degrees average warming is likely to have been surpassed. The IEA says that new fossil fuel development needs to stop now, and that is a minimum requirement for net zero by 2050, the old target year for politicians who won't be around then.

Too few global corporations and governments are paying heed to this. They are doing contrary actions to nix the Paris climate agreement of 2015 that so many nations signed, including Australia. Australian governments are still promoting a  "gas-led" climate apocalypse. To be rapidly followed by global emissions led global life demise. Actually, because Australian government doesn't talk about a "coal-led" recovery, I assume they have secretly accepted that the global coal industry must also rapidly decline.

Mike Meyers in this linked article has written some succinct and poetic imagery. His articles touch on the global predicaments that we all have trouble getting a handle on. Although it doesn't have quite the same grip as Yeats famous poem.

In this article "Minority Authoritarian Rule Must End", the point is, our reactionary governments, controlled by a few, keep applying same old solutions in a ritualistic manner to the huge problems all our previous old solutions have created. A better "Ministry for the Future" is required. More direct democracy. Of course it won't happen by itself. The violent planet destroying beastie won't die so easily. All you need to know is that governments are failing the future everywhere. The best of us need to step up.

The fossil fuel lobby and the Murdoch media continue to hold Australian governments and public demagoguery in their death grip. In their struggle to hide their irrelevance they lash out at the ABC. The LNP government dare not even admit it has serious problems. In the mean-time, opposition to the worst of government non-solutions needs to be stepped up. #StopAdani is "on the road" to build actions to rouse the public spirit, in places all over Australia, in their road-show. More joiners of direct actions welcome. Find an event near you on their web page.

Australian and Victorian Governments are determined stop the rollout of electric vehicles in Australia. Juice Media has some juicy points about this.

Australian governments are so charitable to foreign mining corporations, especially coal and gas. It seems to be a central plank of their existence, plus denying the dangers of global warming to the viability of Australian Society. A most recent update by the Australian Institute, shows the Australian Federal Government fossil fuel money scam continues. Direct cost to taxpayers was $10.3 billion from the budget year 2020-21.

“Coal, oil and gas companies in Australia give the impression that they are major contributors to the Australian economy, but our research shows that they are major recipients of government funds,” said Rod Campbell, Research Director at The Australia Institute.
This tax break not only funneled $1.5 billion to the coal and gas industries last year, but it made it cheaper for them to export fossil fuel to the rest of the world.

New South Wales is putting $100 million into ‘coal innovation’, but much of the research remains mysteriously unpublished, such as a cost benefit analysis of carbon capture and storage in the state.

Australian smarts and Chinese industrial might made solar power the cheapest power humanity has seen – and no one saw it coming. -- This Guardian article recaps disruption history of PV panels. Global warming safety requires rapid acceleration to abandon fossil fuels. Regular reduction of renewable energy costs is a feature of increased scale of manufacture.  The same thing could be have been achieved in Australia for CSP - Concentrated solar thermal with mirrors and heat storage, to achieve "base-line" grid power backup at night-time. Meanwhile the size and scope of big battery projects continues to expand.   The AEMO has contracted for a 300MW / 450 MWh , Lithium-ion Tesla battery near Geelong, Victoria.