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.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/12/queensland-school-water-commercial-bottlers-tamborine-mountain

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.

Catastrophic bushfires in south-eastern Australia, like this summer's ongoing catastrophe, have always been caused by combinations of weather patterns and fuel load, often the unfortunate synchronicity of circumstances. They are now labelled as 'unprecedented'. The main relevant causal circumstance change in the last 50 years, from 1970 onwards, is global heating. 

Current Australian Government climate policy still follows the worst case scenario.  For us in Western Sydney, and other parts of Australia, we can look forwards to a future of more unbearable heat impacts, of counting many more really hot days. Current climate policy is not acceptable.

Lives have been lost, homes and business have been destroyed and thousands of people are stranded or in limbo as fires burn in parts of Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia.
The needs of first responders and victims are great and varied and it's the services and charities on the frontline who are best placed to know what is needed and where. That's why monetary donations can often be one of the most useful ways to help.

The head of marketing for the Australian Coal Industry, Mr Scott Morrison, has found out that love of coal, coupled with denial of Anthropogenic Global Heating, really is a fossil fool's business gambit in the longer term.

In recent years, monsoon arrivals have been late for India, and haphazard. Crowded overdeveloped cities like Delhi, the city of the capital in northern India, depend for survival on regular flood waters of their rivers, and the refreshment of their flood plains soil. This being the 21st century, the century of massive global heating, the farmers and rivers are slowly losing.

According to the World Economic Forum, the global water crisis is the fourth major threat of our civilization. In fact, studies warn that two-thirds of the global population could be living in water-stressed countries by 2025 — just a few short years away.

Its December 28th 2019, in the middle of a deadly heatwave and fires in Adelaide Hills, with worse to come. Maybe this koala knows we owe it something. It stays on the path, and stops a group of cyclists, who figure out it needs help.

The Reserve Bank of Australia in this report, shows its care for coal, and zero concern for Global Heating, in predicting "modest growth" in Australian Coal Production over the next few years. "Modest Growth" of Australia's already large baseline level of coal exports in global trade terms, is still significantly large in absolute terms. and helps to blow everyones global carbon budget.

At the rate Australia is already helping to pour CO2 greenhouse gases into our Atmosphere, this is extinction news of great concern, as the RBA and the Australian government only worry about "markets" and  continuing "business as usual". Money makes their world go around.