Climate Fresk Event on Wed 14th October in Parramatta Mission, 5:45 to 8:45 pm
Come to the next Climate Fresk workshop where you will learn about the elements driving climate change and work on solutions collectively. Aimed at anyone interested in the issue, whether beginner or veteran, you will come away feeling re-energised and empowered!
Its interactive and imaginative, with images and integration, to stretch our climate intelligence and intuiition.
Held at the Parramatta Mission, Wednesday October 14th, 2026. From 5.45 to 8.45.
But there’s nothing on the drawing boards of world leaders with a sense of urgency to help to mitigate to adapt to the most fearsome climate change in human history. The leaders are immobile caricatures, deers in headlights.
It’s remarkable that thousands, millions of people are not in the streets, screaming their lungs out until they faint!
- Robert Hunziker, on reading James Hansen's latest publication on climate predictions for 2027 and its record El-Nino
How to make middle-earth too hot and burnt for humankind ...
As our planet warms, wildfires are more frequent, more intense, and more destructive. In the past decade alone, we've witnessed a dramatic surge in catastrophic wildfires across every continent except Antarctica, with fire seasons extending longer and burned areas expanding into regions previously thought resistant to such disasters.
Ted Trainer details the vitals of what mass media and politics as usual is ignoring...
There is a long, detailed and very strong case that we are heading for a mega-collapse within at best two decades.
There would have to be huge degrowth to far simpler lifestyles and systems. [Like it or not]
Politically corrected climate science has yet to fully explain the acceleration of global heating this biosphere is undergoing. Now the rate is something like 0.4°C per decade. And the 1.5°C threshold is already "as dead as a door-nail". Skepticism is widely justified that this global civilization can reach a "net-zero" of green house gas emissions or really knows how to make it happen. Example, on the "Energy Skeptic" site, where proposed solutions to our complex predicaments of growth of Modern Techno Industrial systems are regularly dissed.
Link - https://energyskeptic.com/2025/vaclav-smil-on-why-there-will-be-no-energy-transition/
"IPCC’s underestimates of climate sensitivity and aerosol cooling follow from their disproportionate emphasis on global climate modeling, an approach that will not yield timely, reliable, policy advice." - from the Summary "Seeing the Forest for the Trees - James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha.
Link - https://mailchi.mp/caa/seeing-the-forest-for-the-trees
As if any of the best policy advice so far has achieved an impact on "business as usual". The hungry metabolism of our global economic organism continues to feed and excrete on everything. Nothing is yet stopping efforts of 'undeveloped' nations to grow, industrialize, and consume like the developed nations, and developed nations will be giving up their costly fossil fuel dependence, while stocks last.
While our fossil fueled civilization hurtles along without any brakes, the only slow-down looks to be likely is that it will eventually out of cheap fuel and accessible resources. And renewable technologies will also collapse, as their production and maintenance are fully dependent on our fossil-fueled systems and materials. Another indication we soon will all have to find ways of living without resupply from them.
Link - https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/halfway-between-kyoto-and-2050.pdf
More gas mining and coal mine expansions give the lie away of 2050 net - zero emissions, and Australian Labor Party climate action pretensions.
This presentation by Nate Hagens is informed, honest and open ended. It covers a lot to consider. Worth sharing, as the results of very creative efforts on conversations for understanding the nature of our reality, communicated in metaphors, stories and graphics, by Nate and the GS team.
Tim Morgan (Surplus Energy Economics modeller) , writes about our ongoing linked energy and financial systems collapse. Plus still baking in our future climate systems collapse. Why do we keep voting for the same purchased-party politicians who have led us to the systems collapses of here and now?
We cannot grow or trade our way out of global systems tipping points...
World trade and the global economy has become brittle as it slowly approached then surpassed planetary limits. It has now reached its tipping point, generating a ton of anxiety and prompting world leaders to break the system which has ceased to function for them. In their folly they failed to realize that it really doesn’t matter who wins, as resource depletion, climate change, growing wealth inequality, falling living standards, plummeting birth rates, disintegrating societies and the failure of technology and science cannot be stopped by waging wars.
Record breaking hot ocean temperatures in the Coral Sea drove the intensity of flooding from Tropical Cyclone Alfred. Global warming is happening faster. Make your politicians listen to the facts, helpfully summarized by the Climate Council, if they want to stay in office.
Welcome to the world of negative sum games: where we lose, but you lose bigger.
[ Economic Growth and Renewable Energy replacements ] are predicated on an unfettered access to cheap, easy-to-get raw materials and having prodigious quantities of similarly cheap and easy-to-get fossil fuels.
Problem is that the easy-to-get (low cost) part of those necessary resources have now been consumed, and what remains would require an exponential increase in energy and material expenditures to get… A rather big and nasty fly in the ointment indeed.
Now is really an important time ... to think clearly about our existential emergency and a positive way forward.
Raise awareness and thereby government policies, and finally media attention, that we need to treat ecological overshoot and economic overgrowth, as the central causes of the human species predicaments and growing suffering that we are facing as our unavoidable future. This petition needs your signature.
The Australian Institute wants you to know, about what most Australian's know, and feel, about climate change. It is in their latest annual "Climate of the Nation" report. It shows what Australian citizens would like have done, that would be meaningful climate action, and suggests that our political parties are way behind actual voter intentions on climate action, and politicians are not listening to climate voters at all. How shall we get rid of these troublesome political parties who are so blinded by corporate ideology? Or is it hoped that publication of the extent of strong climate action memes will change their policies?
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 go extinct 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.
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William Rees is an ultra-distinguished ecological scientist, and
an original researcher on human impacts on biosphere life. Eric Lee has
cleaned up, and
published a formatted transcript
with slides, taken from Prof. Rees recent webinar presentation titled -
"Will Modern
Civilization be the Death of Us? Have Humans Become Obsolete?". It is presented here, because of the disinterest of mainstream media and conventional political narrative.
The idea of a renewable-energy powered future that allows for economic growth is a ... delusion — a death sentence for Earth’s ecosystems and posterity’s well-being. It reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of reality. ...
The real problem lies in the way we think — that’s the true dark matter operating beneath the surface, shaping how we perceive and engage with the world.
Eric Lee works hard to understand, organize and quote from people who actually have a clue as to what is going on.
I present the text of the "Climate Emergency Forum" this week, the video is published on YouTube, State of the Climate 2024 - Earth in Crisis. Discussion centered around the publication in the BioScience journal, available online - "The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth". This was published on 08th October 2024, by an author list of Climate Scientists in prestigious institutional paid positions, who are not known to be given to alarmist predictions without strong evidence. A number of factors suggest the earth's climate system warming resistance is collapsing. Terrestrial carbon sinks are not working as well as before. Well known climate tipping point processes are getting bigger. And of course human civilization continues to pump out more greenhouse gases every year.
.. to pageUgo Bardi offers a flash of insight into reasons for differences in strategy of Nation-State majorities, versus the ideology of elites in charge of Empires.
... Nation-States persecute minorities, while Empires try to protect the rights of its minority groups, something that an independent power can often do. A nation-state, instead, is a natural born killer of minorities. Simply, it has no mechanisms to protect them from the whims of the majority.
... In Western democracies, you can vote for any candidate as long as he/she obeys the orders of the US elites. Once people lose their trust in democracy, the American Empire cannot last for long.
The Climate Analytics (CA) report published this week confirms that Australia has one of the world’s highest total per capita emissions for all greenhouse gases, double that of China and nine times bigger than India. . . .
According to the CA report, Close to 80% of Australia’s total fossil fuel CO2 footprint in 2022 was due to exported carbon. Australia is the third largest fossil fuel exporter in the world, after Russia and the US. In terms of total greenhouse gas footprint, Australia ranks second, however, due to our love of emission-intensive coal.
Film showings of this epic coal port blockade have started, around Australia. Find one or arrange one for your community.
Rupert Read, Ecological Philosopher, projects courage from his strong convictions in a short graphic film below.
A longer presentation on why - this you-tube link. Salter Lecture 2023 -
"The horrible wonderful truth about Climate. Why facing that truth changes everything".
Gas Emissions Craters (GEC) are exploding in Siberia as the permafrost melts - like a teenager coming down with Acne. Major carbon sinks move towards failure around our planet. The Amazon Rainforests is now considered a carbon source. Our overheated oceans may become so choked with heat and carbon dioxide they stop obliging to absorb more of our insults. Such are dangers being faced by all life on this planet, as human industrial civilisation has refused to stop growing. It is all becoming the stuff of biblical "Revelations". One would think our pentacostal prime minister should to Glasgow to lap it up, but no, Australia and the fossil fuel world isn't ready for this.
. . . unless there are immediate rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that limit warming to close to 1.5° C or even 2° C, the problem will extend “beyond reach” and beyond any chance for some level of control.
NSW nature conservation council needs your support to continue to pressure the NSW government to finally stop the logging destruction of our remaining native forest areas. It can be done. The industry is uneconomic. 91% of timber is from plantations, and it needs to be 100%. We need native forest ecosystems to stop declining and grow in size and health, to enable the survival of the creatures that live in them, including koalas.
I know it is a bitter pill to swallow, but the only real way to slow global warming in any noticeable way is to stop anthropogenic CO2 emissions FOREVER. There are no post-facto technological ‘capture’ or ‘remediation’ techniques that exist now or “could be developed” that would actually work as “silver bullets” of salvation; they would only ‘work’ as money making scams with which to gull those despairing of the ‘loss of easy living.’
- "Notes on Carbon Dioxide in Global Warming, Acidified Oceans, and Weathered Rocks" - Manuel Garcie Jr.
Climate Council Public Petition to sign: To play its fair part in the rapid, sustained reductions required globally, Australia should aim to reduce its emissions by 75% below 2005 levels by 2030, and to net zero by 2035.
Nafeez Ahmed publishes "How to Save the World in 15 Years. PART TWO." The IPCC is politically climate conservative. Climate tipping points are irreversible and evidencing now. Not just the climate. The latest data also suggests that more than half – six out of nine – planetary boundaries appear to have now been crossed by human civilisation.
New is latest IPCC report "Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis" The hard work of many, it has fully documented and projected climate past and potential futures, with lots of corroborating detail, numbers and graphs, and improved datasets. Climate science is more certain, errorbars a little smaller. The website "Real Climate" scored a flurry of new posts from notable climate scientists. Future scenario pathways, our warming future, will depend on choices of today's governments and their money and power brokers. Just how much denial will they be allowed to get away with? Chances of scraping under 1.5 C° of warming in the next thirty years depends on keeping with the best "low-emissions scenarios". Nations need to work more on their NDC's, the "Nationally Determined Contributions". Global cooperation needs to come from a willing positive force from home, not a negative arm-twisted condescension imposed externally.
Analysis reveals that “Net Zero 2050” strategies will lock in many decades of unnecessary fossil fuels use well past 2050, with an unsustainable, business-as-usual economic pathway, dangerous “offset” trade-offs, and unacceptable risks of unstoppable climate warming. - Breakthrough - National Centre for Climate Restoration
Simon Michaux, expert on minerals processing, reports on our real system limits for mining of minerals, particularly those required for IT and green technologies. A detailed PDF of same report is available from here.
Robert Hunziker declares we have started the rolling climate apocalypse. Cities, infrastructure and people of fossil fuel civilization are not designed to withstand extreme heat and rapid flooding events. Evolved ecosystems are dying from the advanced human onslaught.
ParraCAN has its first online survey here.
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.