#climate-change — Public Fediverse posts
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Wong is desperate to avoid cause and effect getting into the public discourse around fossil fuels and climate change related disasters.
Australia has some super-massive climate-change bushfires coming (IMO) and Wong and Albanese do not want to be standing there saying, "We knew this was coming but we needed to sell all that gas and coal and look it's only 5000 Australians that we've killed this time."
#CauseAndEffect #ClimateChangeDisasters #AusPol #ClimateChange
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I had this letter in the Newcastle Herald the other day. I tried to keep my sarcasm light!
Renewables will get the job done
Carl Stevenson again shares his selective critique of renewables ("Electric offers peace of mind", Letters, 1/9).
It's almost as if he himself is a renewable resource. But as usual he ignores so many facts that his argument goes flat.
While Mr Stevenson has apparently discovered that solar panels work only in daylight (hence their name), wind turbines work whenever the wind is blowing, day or night. The several pumped hydro plants being built typically supply clean energy for 12 hours at a time. He at least acknowledges the existence of batteries, both domestic and grid scale, which provide stored power during the evening peak, but he downplays them.
He probably does know that during late night and early hours, demand on the grid is slashed because we are tucked up in bed with the lights and TVs off, so we don't need full baseload. Sure there will be occasional times when renewables run out of puff, which is why the experts recommend gas peaker generators that can be quickly switched on and off, like the one we have at Kurri Kurri. Not a lump of coal in sight. A near-renewable grid is entirely feasible and, despite the squawking of the three right-wing parties, is cheaper than digging up and burning fossil fuels or a slow build of nuclear at taxpayers' expense. #auspol #Renewables #climatechange -
Why should I give a fuck about a courier aircraft running off a runway when millions of people are (again) going without food, potable water, or appropriate shelter today, and the planet remains on track for a major extinction event?
Fuck the news business.
And fuck all you cheap fascist bootlickers who don't want to pay for essential shared services.
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🐶 NEW: Five #bushdog pups born at #England’s #Chester #Zoo recently emerged from their den as part of a European breeding program safeguarding the near-threatened species.
Keepers note their chirping vocalizations resemble #birdsong. Head of #mammals Mark Brayshaw explains that #climatechange, #habitat loss, and #disease transfer increasingly threaten wild populations, and that by the time a species is #endangered it often faces a genetic bottleneck.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/bush-dog-puppies-sound-like-birds/
#chesterzoo #conservation #cute #animals #wildlife #southamerica #puppies #animalbehavior #endangeredspecies #vocalization #nature #science #birds #europe
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While I love that #National's ideological bias has crashed headfirst into reality, let's not forget that even the targets they've hit are bullshit:
Less people in emergency housing ≠ people housed, meeting climate targets ≠ doing enough about '#ClimateChange', less people taking up elective surgery ≠ a well run #HealthSystemJobseeker #s climbing, almost 80,000 over target | #RNZ
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics_election-2026/1298748/pm-christopher-luxon-s-targets-jobseeker-numbers-climbing-almost-80-000-over-target
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"The “great food transformation” called for by EAT-Lancet 2.0 demands radical changes to how we produce, supply, retail, acquire, prepare, and consume food."
https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(26)00210-1
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wyoming ranchers struggling amid drought, higher costs and new pressures from beef imports
wyoming ranchers struggling amid drought, higher costs and new pressures from beef imports https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wyoming-ranchers-cattle-prices-trump-beef-tariffs/ -
We’re not protecting our oceans as well as we think: new research https://theconversation.com/were-not-protecting-our-oceans-as-well-as-we-think-new-research-289791?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ClimateChange
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The crazy amounts already needed for climate adaptation make serious climate action look like a walk in the park (financially).
The man responsible for protecting the Netherlands against rising waters: "We'll need to double our water management expenses from 1% to 2% of GDP"
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair
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MEDITERRANEAN RECORD HEAT
TURKEY
41.8 Antalya AP
39.4 Kas
36.1 Cannakale
HIGH MINS
32 Konyaalti
30 Antalya
28.9 Bodrum
28.1 Kas
27.3 Marmaris
26.8 Izmir
26.5 Manisa
GREECE
38 Andravida
36.9 Ioannina
35.8 Aktion
35 Kharpatos & Rhodes
GERMANY
33.7 Ohlsbach
30.9 Buchenbach
29.7 Kohlgrubhttps://bsky.app/profile/extremetemps.bsky.social/post/3mux7ixoptk2e
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=4IW1J2_masg
So true, offsets don't stack up scientifically.
They only exist to allow our resources sector to keep making huge profits.
Crossposted with @openvibe
