Environmental Justice Australia - EJA - has made some telling points lately about who is raking in profits from coal fired power stations, and who gets to pay for it, in terms of decreased life-span or poor health, from being one of several millions of people who are the involuntary human guinea pig smokers of coal burning power station particulates. sulphur, and nitrogen oxides.

Human take over of ecosystems is now critical, as this article on a global reports tells. Worsening worldwide land degradation is now ‘critical’. It is undermining well-being of 3.2 billion people worldwide. The report agency is called "Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services" - IPBES.  In many ways this is a more visible and serious issue than climate change.

This is the global context under which then Environment Minister Josh Frydenburg, failed to block a wetlands "development" project near Brisbane, against strong departmental advice, breaking a 25 years old international trust under the RAMSAR treaty. Large amounts of money donations have been made to both ALP (Queensland Labor state government) and  Liberal Party (Federal government). The LNP attitude towards environment nature conservation is to demand which piece can be next turned into a concrete development. What is the point of having ministerial departments, when the minister has already been paid not to listen?

The Climate Council of Australia looks at the climate facts. Australia is becoming more water insecure, for obvious reasons. As their full report details, climate change from continued burning of coal, oil and gas, has major future survival consequences, and is creating multiple national security issues.

Both Australia and India will have heavy long term survival costs for starting any new coal mine projects. The Adani Coal Mine project, is  the first of many proposed to  "develop" "demolish" the entire Galillee Basin for its coal resource.  We need now a new category of crimes, for such future consequences, for permanent damages to our biosphere. Demolishing the Galilee Basin for coal would qualify as a first-class terrible global climate crime. Its political perpetrators and shills need to be barred from public office, as we do now for trivial breaches of the Federal Constitution on citizenship or income irregularities. There are far too many permanent externalities for fossil fuels, and there energy excess is leading to growth of a harmful unsustainable economy. The Adani mine is a Coal Cancer.

There is no way an honest global and local environment impact assessment could  allow the Adani Coal mine. The fact it is still being allowed to go ahead, indicates Australian politics and institutions are incompetent, unfit for purpose, full of climate change denial and fossil fuel money corruption, and are a long way off from taking notices of current global climate reality.

Cassandra's Legacy Blog Spot points out that global supplies of Heavy Fuel Oil and Diesel are already in significant decline, and governments are taxing Diesel higher as a form of rationing.

No wonder the great oil-addicted military powers are becoming very twitchy. "Trade tensions" and tariff tit-for-tat between USA and China seem almost a cover as outright usage heavy fuel oil by ships must decline, and this will induce cutbacks of global trade by necessity.

Another reason why the Axis of Oil hates Julian Assange. Diplomatic cables from 2007-9, released by Wikileaks, imply a senior Saudi government oil executive warned that the kingdom's oil reserves were overstated by as much as 300bn barrels, nearly 40% of total recoverable reserves. This was already suspected by most peak oil observers.

The mandate of the current minority federal government to still rule Australia continues to be the rhetorical claim of a "Strong Economy". An economy is our summary term for the overall through-put of goods and services, all of which requires energy, and also requires thoughtful handling of lots of wastes. How is the "strength" of an economy then measured? How can we be sure that the current "political managers" are really doing their job?  My test is to look at how the transition to new energy sources is being managed, especially renewable energy sources, since our old fossil fuel energy systems are chock full of critical sustainability, cost and depletion problems. That doesn't worry our Fracking state governments, of WA, NSW, NT, Queensland , as they push fracking gas, in the bid to keep up with global growth in carbon dioxide and methane emissions growth.

Bill Shorten proposes that an ALP Federal Government will do more than talk about Climate Change Emergency Disaster, by setting and funding significant energy and carbon emission goals.

The view from the UN is that emissions reduction efforts need to be strongly increased, globally.

Australia's current carbon emissions performance to date is dismal, going "At a canter" in the wrong direction.

As for Forestry and Land Clearing, Australia grovelled to get its special "Australia Clause" in the Kyoto protocol for restraint on land clearing. This seems to have been forgotten, as native forests continue to be logged, while land clearings get the go ahead by state governments, or carry on regardless.

Weather systems on the East Coast of Australia are now showing what they can do with all the extra heat energy that Global Warming has squeezed into our oceans and atmosphere. The BOM says bushfires in Queensland and floods in Sydney are linked by a connecting weather system. They are also linked by being part of a global warmed ocean and atmosphere system. Heat from the continent interior has smashed coastal temperature records in North Queensland. The bush fires near Rockhampton can only be run away from.

The Yongding River. that supplied Beijing,  has been dry for 30 years. At its peak, the 700-kilometre river was at least 10 metres deep.

The cause seems to be that the sources, the plateaus and mountain ranges, are drying up.  Last winter, Beijing endured its longest period without any precipitation, snow or rain — 112 days. Every year remaining farmers have to go deeper into the watertable. On average, it is dropping 1 to 3 metres a year around Beijing. The Government's $100 billion South-North Water Transfer Project has been tipped as a solution. In unusually blunt terms, former Chinese premier Wen Jiabao has warned the lack of water threatened the very survival of the Chinese nation itself.

Of course, the other notable thing that Bejing is famous for,  besides being the political, administrative capital and having a big population, is the poor air quality, because of large numbers of coal burning power stations. Constant production of large volumes of atmosphere pollutants such as sulphur dioxides, and soot particles, must have a marked effect on local climate, as well as being a cause of global climate change, and poor health consequences for all of its citizens.

Australian's with connections to Asian communities maybe more aware of climate change than the average white australian.

I don't see that a complete take over of Australia Government by China can be much worse than the idiocy we have now. So far, China isn't directly denying the causes of climate change and threatening to pull out of the Paris 2015 climate accord. Few people can do this so well as Tony Abbott and still manage to keep their electoral seat pre-selection. It might have helped if the LNP had actually had an alternative pre-selection candidate to choose from. Liberal party members had to choose between Tony Abbott and no one, and a sizeable minority thought that no-one was the best choice. We shall now hope that electorate voters do the right thing.

Here is a link to a Graham Redfern article, on DeSmog Blog, about a finding which got next to no mention by the Big Political Parties and Media. It shows the influence of Gina Rinehart and also no doubt, her fellow class mates, on the Australian Government. Money does it all. The IPA is an influential right wing think tank with close ties to Australia’s governing Liberal Party. IPA fellows regularly appear in the media. Payments suggest that more than a third of the IPA’s income in 2016 and 2017 was from HPPL — majority-owned privately by Gina Rinehart.

Facebook video shows many Australians rising up for climate against the coal coup leadership spill of the australian federal Government.

Online book of terrific pictures and text that graphically describe our current world and predicaments of now.

Has to be seen to be believed, much better than any expensive tourist holiday.

Best viewed on a large screen.
Overdevelopment X Overpopulation = Overshoot

At this rate , pretty soon, earth is going to be "Game OVER".

I do not see this sort of Article very often in a News Ltd publication.
State governments everywhere, cater specially for the interests of less than one percent of population, while their propaganda targets the bottom 20% of population. When the serfs start to doubt, then governments may tumble.

Australia is no exception. The domesticated politicians of Australian governments by priority support the interests of foreign coal and mining interests, invested in by those elites who are far less than one percent of voters.

This is now officially denied by latest Prime Muppet, Scott Morrison, parliamentary coal handler extraordinaire, who wears an Australia Flag Badge, as faked authenticity.
History shows that States always, everywhere, are enemies of the truth. States are about growth, and expanding our take from nature. States are instigators of war, concentrators of wealth and power, tools of oppression, and the playgrounds of influence by elites. Australian governments are deep in their games of mates. Its time for a big clean-out.

Australian States, as high per capita carbon emissions, are fossil fuel powered in energy and politics alike. Truths about climate change are ignored and suppressed.

Many people will now be taking these matters into their own hands. People everywhere are installing their own solar panel and battery systems, at far greater rates than before. Australian Governments have resisted the need to plan for rapid phase out of fossil fuel stationary energy generation, which is a vital first step for overall carbon emissions reductions. These poor coal critter excuses for a government need to be tumbled down into the coal mine pits from whence they came.

This is very strong evidence that the NSW Liberal Government is run for and by the interests of International Coal Oligarchs.

Water should be of prime concern for Sydney's 5 million and growing population, as we should expect the next centuries of climate change heat waves and drought.

The sacrifice of water supply quantity and quality, by NSW Government, for more Climate Change causing Coal Mining, is a typical example of lobby-purchased climate change denial and sacrifice of public interest. Obviously the NSW miniions of the Coal Oligarchs are happy to sacrifice their grand-childrens future. As usual NSW government ignores the dreadful ecological crimes that they are committing.

NEG - National Everlasting bullshit Guarantee - from Juice Media.
-- from our Coalition government of keeping our Coal Moron Forum happy. The Australian Coal Oligarchy wants to hold back any change from being a massive fossil fuel burning and waste production society. Government PR that says you can always have everything for next to nothing is pure bullshit.

Renew economy article indicates that the Coal Oligarchy are still trying to rule Australia via the NEG - a gift for the Monomaniac Coal Forum aimed at keeping carbon emission reductions to minimum.  Our advancing climate change emergency says we need to pushing past targets and policy faster than we can make them. The northern hemisphere is in major heatwaves and wildfires.  Our turn next. Large scale climate change and drought advances in Australia.

Robert Hunziker and others tell it like it is. Train wrecks in progress.

The corporate media has failed abysmally at preparing the public for a climate changed world, let alone reporting on it. Forget about it for any serious alarmed mention by any of the major party politicians & media in Australia. Forget about it for anything but seriously same-old public relations bullshit in shovel loads of readiness for next federal election.