#tonyabbott — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/be/11075/ Orbán Is Very Much on the Right Track in Standing up to Brussels — An Interview with Tony Abbott #Australia #Brussels #China #conservatism #conservative #deterrence #DonaldTrump #Election2026 #Elections2026 #EU #FamilyPolicy #gender #GlobalOrder #HungarianElections2026 #HungarianFamilyPolicy #Hungary #IranWar #Israel #Migration #Poland #RegimeChange #RussoUkrainianWar #sovereignty #StraitOfHormuz #Taiwan #TaxPolicy #TonyAbbott #Ukraine #UkraineEuAccession #ViktorOrban

Greens say Australia should step up pressure on Israel over ‘disastrous, illegal, immoral war’ on Lebanon https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/10/australia-pressure-israel-war-lebanon-greens #Lebanon #UsisraelWarOnIran #TonyAbbott #MarkButler #AustralianForeignPolicy #AustralianGreens #AustraliaNews

#TonyAbbott the #RWNJ who refuses to just shut up & fuck off wants #Australia to fight #Iran. Of course he does. #auspol

#TonyAbbott the #RWNJ who refuses to just shut up & fuck off wants #Australia to fight #Iran. Of course he does. #auspol

#TonyAbbott the #RWNJ who refuses to just shut up & fuck off wants #Australia to fight #Iran. Of course he does. #auspol

#TonyAbbott the #RWNJ who refuses to just shut up & fuck off wants #Australia to fight #Iran. Of course he does. #auspol

#TonyAbbott the #RWNJ who refuses to just shut up & fuck off wants #Australia to fight #Iran. Of course he does. #auspol

Billionaire Gina Rinehart says ‘I don’t understand’ arrest of Ben Robert-Smith over alleged war crimes https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/08/ben-roberts-smith-brs-gina-rinehart-alleged-war-crimes-arrest-ntwnfb #BenRobertssmith #GinaRinehart #TonyAbbott #AustraliaNews

Pauline Hanson says she won’t ‘abandon’ Ben Roberts-Smith as Greens argue ‘no one should be above the law’ https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/07/ben-roberts-smith-pauline-hanson-support-ntwnfb #BenRobertssmith #PaulineHanson #TonyAbbott #AustralianGreens #Coalition #AustralianPolitics #AustraliaNews

Australia would be signed up to Iran war ‘by deception and stealth’ if military support sent, Shoebridge says https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/09/australia-iran-war-deception-greens-shoebridge #AustralianForeignPolicy #UsisraelWarOnIran #AustralianPolitics #PennyWong #AnthonyAlbanese #TonyAbbott #AustralianMilitary #Iran #AustraliaNews

“Gilbert is being flown into #Australia by #Advance to be a key speaker at a conference in #Sydney, alongside former prime minister #TonyAbbott and #Liberal MP #MoiraDeeming. He is billed to make a half-hour speech on Saturday morning titled: ‘The quiet #coup: how judicial politicisation threatens democratic society.’”

Tony 🤪 and his nutter mates are getting the band back together.

#RWE / #extremism / #extremists <https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/obama-conspiracy-theorist-to-address-australian-conservative-summit-20260212-p5o1kb.html> / <https://archive.md/e8aIU>

Will Tony Abbott return to frontline politics? The Liberal party’s most polarising figure can imagine a way https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/17/will-tony-abbott-return-to-frontline-politics-the-liberal-partys-most-polarising-figure-can-imagine-a-way #LiberalParty #TonyAbbott #AustralianPolitics #AustraliaNews #SussanLey

@sortius
Australia is a fossil fuelled colony. People talk about democracy. What democracy, when our politicians are literally dressed as fossil fuelled employees?
#AusPol #Australia #RioTinto #Chevron #Fortescue #AndrewForrest #PeabodyEnergy #MalcolmTurnbull #TonyAbbott #ScottMorrison #AnthonyAlbanese #PetroMasculinity

Tony Abbott intervenes in Liberal leadership battle calling on right to unite to oust Sussan Ley
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-28/tony-abbott-calls-on-conservatives-to-unite-and-oust-sussan-ley-/106278112

It hurts me to say this, but: Susssan Ley is right. She's recognised that if the Liberal Party is to survive, to present itself as a credible Opposition, and have more than just a dream of winning an election in the next decade, it needs to be overhauled.

Susssan Ley has a mountain of work ahead of her if she's trying to reform and modernise the Liberal Party. This comes after years that cannot be swept under the carpet, and memories that stretch back so far in people's minds that we have a clear picture of what is "normal" for the Liberal Party. Some people like Tony Abbott want that "tradition" that he was part of and benefited from to persist, and for the rest of us to forget the aspects that were terrible for most people in Australia.

But, who can forget the lies and racism and RWNJ extremism resembling Nazism of the Malignant Potato Peter Dutton, the lies and racism and self-serving religious quackery of the Liar from the Shire Scott Morrison, the lies and racism and outrageous sexism and anti-intellectualism and cruelty disguised as boofheadedness of The Mad Monk Tony Abbott, the lies and racism and nonsensical neo-con ideology of Malcolm Turnbull, and the lies and racism and mean-spirited divide-and-conquer class-warfare of John Howard?

#AusPol #SussanLey #SusssanLey #PeterDutton #TheMalignantPotato #ScottMorrison #ScottyFromMarketing #TonyAbbott #TheMadMonk #MalcolmTurnbull #JohnHoward

#RWNJ #maggot #TonyAbbott intervenes in #Liberal #leadership battle calling on right to unite to oust #SussanLey.

Liberal MPs Andrew Hastie and Angus Taylor are both in the frame for the top job, but sources say the momentum for a leadership spill has "stalled". #auspol

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-28/tony-abbott-calls-on-conservatives-to-unite-and-oust-sussan-ley-/106278112

Bondi Massacre: Curtailing Dissent
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/19/bondi-massacre-curtailing-dissent/
We cannot allow this tragedy to be hijacked by cynical politicians and the divisive Zionist lobby, writes Stefan Moore. By Stefan Moore Pearls and Irritations CN at 30 My wife and I were at home preparing dinner in Bondi when we heard&#8230;
#Politics #Australia #CivilRights #Commentary #FreeSpeech #Zionism #AntiSemitism #Antisemitism #AustralianPrimeMinisterAnthonyAlbanese #BondiBeachAttack #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceAlliance(ihra) #IsraeliPrimeMinisterBenjaminNetanyahu #StefanMoore #TonyAbbott

Bondi Massacre: Curtailing Dissent
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/19/bondi-massacre-curtailing-dissent/
We cannot allow this tragedy to be hijacked by cynical politicians and the divisive Zionist lobby, writes Stefan Moore. By Stefan Moore Pearls and Irritations CN at 30 My wife and I were at home preparing dinner in Bondi when we heard&#8230;
#Politics #Australia #CivilRights #Commentary #FreeSpeech #Zionism #AntiSemitism #Antisemitism #AustralianPrimeMinisterAnthonyAlbanese #BondiBeachAttack #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceAlliance(ihra) #IsraeliPrimeMinisterBenjaminNetanyahu #StefanMoore #TonyAbbott

Bondi Massacre: Curtailing Dissent
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/19/bondi-massacre-curtailing-dissent/
We cannot allow this tragedy to be hijacked by cynical politicians and the divisive Zionist lobby, writes Stefan Moore. By Stefan Moore Pearls and Irritations CN at 30 My wife and I were at home preparing dinner in Bondi when we heard&#8230;
#Politics #Australia #CivilRights #Commentary #FreeSpeech #Zionism #AntiSemitism #Antisemitism #AustralianPrimeMinisterAnthonyAlbanese #BondiBeachAttack #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceAlliance(ihra) #IsraeliPrimeMinisterBenjaminNetanyahu #StefanMoore #TonyAbbott

Bondi Massacre: Curtailing Dissent
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/19/bondi-massacre-curtailing-dissent/
We cannot allow this tragedy to be hijacked by cynical politicians and the divisive Zionist lobby, writes Stefan Moore. By Stefan Moore Pearls and Irritations CN at 30 My wife and I were at home preparing dinner in Bondi when we heard&#8230;
#Politics #Australia #CivilRights #Commentary #FreeSpeech #Zionism #AntiSemitism #Antisemitism #AustralianPrimeMinisterAnthonyAlbanese #BondiBeachAttack #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceAlliance(ihra) #IsraeliPrimeMinisterBenjaminNetanyahu #StefanMoore #TonyAbbott

Bondi Massacre: Curtailing Dissent
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/19/bondi-massacre-curtailing-dissent/
We cannot allow this tragedy to be hijacked by cynical politicians and the divisive Zionist lobby, writes Stefan Moore. By Stefan Moore Pearls and Irritations CN at 30 My wife and I were at home preparing dinner in Bondi when we heard&#8230;
#Politics #Australia #CivilRights #Commentary #FreeSpeech #Zionism #AntiSemitism #Antisemitism #AustralianPrimeMinisterAnthonyAlbanese #BondiBeachAttack #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceAlliance(ihra) #IsraeliPrimeMinisterBenjaminNetanyahu #StefanMoore #TonyAbbott

On 26th Oct 2021, Australian PM Scott "don't-be-scared-of-coal" Morrison announced the Coalition's #NetZero2050 #ClimateTarget.

That same day, I read the document containing Morrison's 'plan'. It contained nothing to get Australia anywhere near the (already compromised idea of) #NetZero.

There was no plan, no modelling, no change in actual policies. The #ScottMorrison 'commitment' to net zero was still completely consistent with decades of #Coalhugger #Coalition policies. The target was toothless, an exercise in getting a headline to quiet the conscience of the news-skimming voter whose grandkids keep telling them climate is bad but who really wants to vote for hurting marginalised people and/or retaining their current tax loopholes (and who hasn't realised how much the #ALP embraces both anyway).

So with this week's news that #SussanLey has dropped that pretence, at least now there is one iota less dishonesty in Australian politics (albeit one with its own new lies and contradictions).

The last time the Coalition's #ClimatePolicy slightly departed from utter loyalty to the #DirtyEnergy industry was the morning of the 1st Dec 2009 in the hours before #MalcolmTurnbull was deposed as leader of her Majesty's Opposition and replaced by #TonyAbbott by a single vote.

#Auspol #ClimateWars #LNP

Panicked Tories scramble to bury Boris Johnson’s legacy – POLITICO https://www.byteseu.com/1427413/ #BorisJohnson #Brexit #England #GreatBritain #HongKong #Immigration #JamesCleverlyMP #KemiBadenoch #Migration #NigelFarage #PritiPatel #TonyAbbott #UK #UnitedKingdom

https://www.europesays.com/uk/479426/ Panicked Tories scramble to bury Boris Johnson’s legacy – POLITICO #BorisJohnson #Brexit #Britain #England #GreatBritain #HongKong #Immigration #JamesCleverlyMP #KemiBadenoch #Migration #NigelFarage #NorthernIreland #PritiPatel #Scotland #TonyAbbott #UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales

Panicked Tories scramble to bury Boris Johnson’s legacy – POLITICO

Johnson insisted the U.K. had taken back “legal control” after Brexit. The “problems we face now are illegal…
#NewsBeep #News #UnitedKingdom #BorisJohnson #Brexit #England #GB #GreatBritain #HongKong #Immigration #JamesCleverlyMP #kemibadenoch #Migration #NigelFarage #PritiPatel #TonyAbbott #UK
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/182639/

@Spoon

Want to elect a government that you don't trust?

Tony Abbott has a plan.

Vote Liberal so they'll have a “chance to earn your trust”.

See addressing climate change as communism and want the Liberals to push back against this "freedom-eroding nonsense"?

Jacinta Price is the woman you want leading a newly invigorated "centre-right" Liberal Party.

2000 deaths are linked to #RoboDebt AIUI.
Australian Vietnam War deaths = 500.
#TheRoboDebtParty
#TonyAbbott #JacintaPrice
#AusPol

@Spoon

Want to elect a government that you don't trust?

Tony Abbott has a plan.

Vote Liberal so they'll have a “chance to earn your trust”.

See addressing climate change as communism and want the Liberals to push back against this "freedom-eroding nonsense"?

Jacinta Price is the woman you want leading a newly invigorated "centre-right" Liberal Party.

2000 deaths are linked to #RoboDebt AIUI.
Australian Vietnam War deaths = 500.
#TheRoboDebtParty
#TonyAbbott #JacintaPrice
#AusPol

@Spoon

Want to elect a government that you don't trust?

Tony Abbott has a plan.

Vote Liberal so they'll have a “chance to earn your trust”.

See addressing climate change as communism and want the Liberals to push back against this "freedom-eroding nonsense"?

Jacinta Price is the woman you want leading a newly invigorated "centre-right" Liberal Party.

2000 deaths are linked to #RoboDebt AIUI.
Australian Vietnam War deaths = 500.
#TheRoboDebtParty
#TonyAbbott #JacintaPrice
#AusPol

@Spoon

Want to elect a government that you don't trust?

Tony Abbott has a plan.

Vote Liberal so they'll have a “chance to earn your trust”.

See addressing climate change as communism and want the Liberals to push back against this "freedom-eroding nonsense"?

Jacinta Price is the woman you want leading a newly invigorated "centre-right" Liberal Party.

2000 deaths are linked to #RoboDebt AIUI.
Australian Vietnam War deaths = 500.
#TheRoboDebtParty
#TonyAbbott #JacintaPrice
#AusPol

@Spoon

Want to elect a government that you don't trust?

Tony Abbott has a plan.

Vote Liberal so they'll have a “chance to earn your trust”.

See addressing climate change as communism and want the Liberals to push back against this "freedom-eroding nonsense"?

Jacinta Price is the woman you want leading a newly invigorated "centre-right" Liberal Party.

2000 deaths are linked to #RoboDebt AIUI.
Australian Vietnam War deaths = 500.
#TheRoboDebtParty
#TonyAbbott #JacintaPrice
#AusPol

Why Do the Least Qualified Often End Up in Power?
Machiavelli saw it coming centuries ago—and modern psychology backs him up.
This video unpacks the unsettling truth: confidence, charisma, and cunning often outrank competence when it comes to climbing the ladder. From CEOs to politicians, it’s not always the best and brightest who rise to the top.
Explore the dark side of leadership and what it means for you, your workplace, and the world.
#leadershippsychology #machiavelli #powerdynamics #organisationaltruths #auspol #scomo #tonyabbott #PeterDutton #dunningkrugereffect #dunningkruger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix4nKNDKhTQ

@anathema_device

Mmmmmm.

Glad this is coming into the light at such an oppportune time for #Labor.

Decapitatation would have the #Libs at a loss.

Maybe #TonyAbbott or #Scottie would step up?

@Gracchus

1. "said she organised a pair in parliament to negate her absence on votes."

Who in hell in #Labor would extend this courtesy to a J. Peterson-loving bigot?

2. Other AU #MurdochAdjacent figures slated to attend the Jordan Peterson-Civilization Fest, #AllianceForResponsibleCitizenship, are #TonyAbbott, #JohnAnderson, #PeterCostello, #PetaCredlin and #ChrisUhlmann, #GregSheridan & #PaulKelly.
Also invited were #BridgetMcKenzie, #SusanMcDonald and #JonathonDuniam.

@Gracchus

1. "said she organised a pair in parliament to negate her absence on votes."

Who in hell in #Labor would extend this courtesy to a J. Peterson-loving bigot?

2. Other AU #MurdochAdjacent figures slated to attend the Jordan Peterson-Civilization Fest, #AllianceForResponsibleCitizenship, are #TonyAbbott, #JohnAnderson, #PeterCostello, #PetaCredlin and #ChrisUhlmann, #GregSheridan & #PaulKelly.
Also invited were #BridgetMcKenzie, #SusanMcDonald and #JonathonDuniam.

@Gracchus

1. "said she organised a pair in parliament to negate her absence on votes."

Who in hell in #Labor would extend this courtesy to a J. Peterson-loving bigot?

2. Other AU #MurdochAdjacent figures slated to attend the Jordan Peterson-Civilization Fest, #AllianceForResponsibleCitizenship, are #TonyAbbott, #JohnAnderson, #PeterCostello, #PetaCredlin and #ChrisUhlmann, #GregSheridan & #PaulKelly.
Also invited were #BridgetMcKenzie, #SusanMcDonald and #JonathonDuniam.

@Gracchus

1. "said she organised a pair in parliament to negate her absence on votes."

Who in hell in #Labor would extend this courtesy to a J. Peterson-loving bigot?

2. Other AU #MurdochAdjacent figures slated to attend the Jordan Peterson-Civilization Fest, #AllianceForResponsibleCitizenship, are #TonyAbbott, #JohnAnderson, #PeterCostello, #PetaCredlin and #ChrisUhlmann, #GregSheridan & #PaulKelly.
Also invited were #BridgetMcKenzie, #SusanMcDonald and #JonathonDuniam.

@Gracchus

1. "said she organised a pair in parliament to negate her absence on votes."

Who in hell in #Labor would extend this courtesy to a J. Peterson-loving bigot?

2. Other AU #MurdochAdjacent figures slated to attend the Jordan Peterson-Civilization Fest, #AllianceForResponsibleCitizenship, are #TonyAbbott, #JohnAnderson, #PeterCostello, #PetaCredlin and #ChrisUhlmann, #GregSheridan & #PaulKelly.
Also invited were #BridgetMcKenzie, #SusanMcDonald and #JonathonDuniam.

@cheryanne

#TakeABow #JohnHoward, #KevinRudd, #JuliaGillard, #TonyAbbott, #MalcolmTurnbull, #ScottMorrison and #AnthonyAlbanese.
Together you've got 35% of #Australians down to where they haven't got $3,000 to rub together.

#RingKissers all.

#AusPol
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BYLC3WOfPfI/maxresdefault.jpg

When the #GreenClimateFund was being established, Australia's Prime Minister was #TonyAbbott, a #ClimateDenier, who had won the 2013 federal election promising to dismantle the baby steps towards a #ClimatePolicy the previous #Labor government had made.

So there was little surprise when PM Abbott announced in Nov 2013 that #Australia would be contributing a massive sum of $0 to the Green Climate Fund.

At the time, he claimed Australia would chip in AU$200m (then =USD$187m) over four years, but since this was merely a rebranding of existing #ForeignAid, it clearly didn't count as "new and additional funding", a fact that most journalists blithely ignored, falling for the bait-and-switch. Or we might say instead that the Australian government was overstating its foreign aid commitments by $200m over those years.

Nonetheless, the four years were soon gone, as was Tony Abbott, as well as his successor #MalcolmTurnbull, who in turn had been replaced as PM by #ScottMorrison. When it came time to pledge again in 2018, Morrison announced Australia would be pulling out of the Green Climate Fund entirely, a path also taken by the #Trump administration at the time, whom Morrison was often cribbing notes from when it came to what kinds of #cruelty and #selfishness he could get away with.
5/8

#AusPol

Alan Jones's lawyers taking 'first steps' towards defamation proceedings over indecent assault allegations
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-07/alan-jones-denies-indecent-assault-allegations/103200252

Radio shock-jock, Alan jones is lawyering-up to sling a defo charge at Nine Newspapers and investigative journalist, Kate McClymont. They've revealed credible allegations that Alan Jones indecently assaulted four young men by groping or kissing them while he was in the nadir (RWNJs would say peak) of his radio career. It's another case of high-profile men acting badly, and reacting by using the courts as a weapon by countering with defamation claims.

You may recall that Alan Jones is a foul-mouthed misogynist and all-round awful person.

Jones has been called-out by regulators for repeatedly performing cash-for-comment: on-air fraud where he made favourable comments about companies such as Telstra, Qantas, Optus, Foxtel, Mirvac, and major banks without telling listeners he was being paid by them.

In 2005, Alan Jones encouraged violence and vilified Middle-Eastern people, saying "Come to Cronulla this weekend to take revenge". He helped to precipitate the Cronulla Riots.

Alan Jones' sexism and politically-motivated slurs included saying Prime Minister Julia Gillard was a liar, and that her father had "died of shame". He encouraged misogynistic violence against the Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore, by saying "Put her in the same chaff bag as Julia Gillard and throw them both out to sea". Of course, he said favourable things about Tony Abbott in the same breath.

More recently, Alan Jones has been a COVID-minimiser, and a long-time climate-change denier.

Lovely chap. I get the impression his colleagues at the radio station and in political circles knew about it and closed-ranks to protect Alan Jones.

#AusPol #KateMcClymont #AlanJones #Defo #Defamation #CronullaRiots #ChaffBag #CashForComment #TonyAbbott #TheMadMonk

@yoyoel
Someone calculated just how many pages refutation takes.

And somebody made a website refuting #Bullshit.

#BjornLomborg #TonyAbbott #UniversityOfWesternAustralia #UWA

http://www.lomborg-errors.dk/

Why is this guy even still allowed do to anything but go fishing?

"Former #Australian prime minister #TonyAbbott, a director of the UK’s principal #climate science #denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (#GWPF), has been reappointed by the government as an adviser to the prestigious Board of Trade.

The Board of Trade provides advice to the government on its trade deals with foreign countries, which often encompass environmental and climate standards. "

https://www.desmog.com/2023/09/20/director-climate-science-denial-group-global-warming-policy-foundation-tony-abbott-reappointed-board-of-trade-adviser/

Former Australian PM Tony Abbott Joins UK Climate Denial Group
https://www.desmog.com/2023/02/06/former-australian-pm-tony-abbott-joins-uk-climate-denial-group/

Ex-Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has joined the UK’s main climate denial group saying: "We need more science," and in the next breath, "No, not like that."

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has consistently injected anti-science, climate change denial, shonky politics, and outright lies into climate change discussions.

#AusPol #TonyAbbott #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateEmegency #GlobalWarming #GWPF #GlobalWarmingPolicyFoundation

Australia once self-identified as the "clever country".

That phrase has completely disappeared. Today we tracked down the exact moment the phrase vanished from the national consciousness…

It was the day we voted in #TonyAbbott as PM over Kevin Rudd.

#KevinRuddCoup #KevinRudd #cleverCountry #australia #auspol #smearCampaigns #NBN #sovereignWealthFund #miningTax #rupertMurdoch #foreignMeddling

Australia once self-identified as the "clever country".

That phrase has completely disappeared. Today we tracked down the exact moment the phrase vanished from the national consciousness…

It was the day we voted in #TonyAbbott as PM over Kevin Rudd.

#KevinRuddCoup #KevinRudd #cleverCountry #australia #auspol #smearCampaigns #NBN #sovereignWealthFund #miningTax #rupertMurdoch #foreignMeddling

Australia once self-identified as the "clever country".

That phrase has completely disappeared. Today we tracked down the exact moment the phrase vanished from the national consciousness…

It was the day we voted in #TonyAbbott as PM over Kevin Rudd.

#KevinRuddCoup #KevinRudd #cleverCountry #australia #auspol #smearCampaigns #NBN #sovereignWealthFund #miningTax #rupertMurdoch #foreignMeddling

📬Lesetipps: Staatschef vs. Hacker, wieder nix zu verbergen, Überwachung📬 https://tarnkappe.info/lesetipps-staatschef-vs-hacker-wieder-nix-zu-verbergen-ueberwachung/ #Telekommunikationsüberwachung #Überwachung #MikeKuketz #nachdenken #RoddaSilva #TonyAbbott #Lesetipps #Videotipp #p2p

📬Lesetipps: Staatschef vs. Hacker, wieder nix zu verbergen, Überwachung📬 https://tarnkappe.info/lesetipps-staatschef-vs-hacker-wieder-nix-zu-verbergen-ueberwachung/ #Telekommunikationsüberwachung #Überwachung #MikeKuketz #nachdenken #RoddaSilva #TonyAbbott #Lesetipps #Videotipp #p2p

Climate change guilty of doing too little

The past decade was America‘s hottest on record. They are seeing more droughts, floods, and wildfires than ever before and these days low temperatures have many blocked.  Though still lots of Americans are not convinced they too should try to reduce waste, pollution and should use less of the earth’s resources just like there is plenty-fold.

A vast array of physical and biological systems across the Earth are being affected by human-induced global warming (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Good to see a president who dares to call onto the citizens and to warn them that they may not stay blind, because

Climate change is happening, and the effects are visible all around us.

But a lot of people still have questions about climate change:

what it means, how bad it really is, and what we can do to fight it.

Still too many do not want to see what is going on in nature. They prefer to put their head in the sand. How climate change will impact on the world, and what must be done to avert a catastrophic four-degree rise in global temperature, many governments only offer obfuscation and excuses.

Denial: Australians burying their heads in the sands of Bondi Beach to send a message to Prime Minister Tony Abbott about the dangers of climate change.

To be fully committed in the fight against climate change, we all have to understand why it’s such a serious issue.

We may see or hear that there are state organisations like Fish and Wildlife Service officials who try to get a good federal protection and present listings and have distributed guidelines on how to best log forests without harming bats for example. These recommendations suggest restricted logging from April through October, which led to push-back from the forest industry. That timber industry in the whole of America keeps cutting trees like nothing and each day football fields of green lounges disappear. where is the state control and why can not they catch the limber thieves?

The “burning embers” diagram above was produced by the IPCC in 2001. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In the meantime lots of people do heat their houses like saunas in Winter and cool it like freezers in Summer, whilst the factories fill the air with fumes of all sorts.

Unless global emissions peak and decline in short order, the world will pass a point where global warming can be limited to two degrees.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s recent report calculated the remaining amount of carbon dioxide humans can emit and still have a likely chance of limiting global warming to less than two degrees. It comes to about another 1,000 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide.

In 2012, global emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane were around 54 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. To meet that “carbon budget”, UNEP calculates global emissions must be no higher than 44 gigatonnes in 2020, and 42 gigatonnes in 2030.

But current climate targets don’t stick within these limits. World leaders are currently committed to targets that imply global emissions will be 52 to 54 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2020, and 56 to 59 gigatonnes in 2030. UNEP says that leaves an “emissions gap” between where we’re headed and where we need to be.

In the West of Europe many people and governments are realizing the gravity of this problem, and are already taking action on the issue. In the wake of the historic joint climate announcement by the U.S. and China at the beginning of this month, the importance of American leadership in the fight against climate change cannot be understated.

Lots of Americans live in imaginary Pollyanna Land in the United States, much like the rest of the so-called developed world.

We’re the biggest, the best, the brightest, the strongest, the most noble. We’re a shining city on a hill, a beacon of justice and morality, righting wrongs, fighting evil everywhere, and guiding the world to the promised land of unlimited growth, wealth, and opportunity.  {Battling Environmental Depression: Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene}

Fortunately, a majority of Americans believe that climate change is real, but there’s still a lot of confusion and misinformation out there.
That’s why it’s critical that every opportunity is taken to set the record straight, and to make sure that everyone’s as informed and knowledgeable about it as possible.

Energy efficiency improvements could prevent 22 to 24 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions between 2015 and 2030, UNEP estimates, with new energy efficiency policies reducing energy demand by about five to seven per cent.

The Great Barrier Reef lies off the coast of Queensland (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Perhaps the world wants to wait to much for what North America is doing, though the American president last week called on Australia’s youth to rise up and demand more action to combat climate change, remarking that

“incredible natural glory of the Great Barrier Reef is threatened”.

The future of the Reef is an international issue therefore the world could see the US President, Barack Obama, talking about his desire for his grandchildren’s generation to still be able to enjoy the Reef in the way that we’re able to today. Knowing how to plan and manage the best outcomes for it is of the upmost importance.

On Sunday, Premier Campbell Newman said he was not about to “criticise our guest” but added that Mr Obama had relied on misinformation and he would tell US officials about what was “actually going on with the reef”.

In response the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop replied the Reef was

“not under threat from climate change because its biggest threat is the nutrient runoffs agricultural land, the second biggest threat is natural disasters, but this has been for 200 years”

Until now Prime Minister Tony Abbott has tried to limit the extent of discussion of climate change, but he has revealed he raised the issue during a bilateral meeting with French President François Hollande.

After years of arguing that Australia should only move faster once major polluters also moved, like so many other countries think, he has now described climate change as

“an important subject”

and one

“the world needs to tackle as a whole”.

The declaration followed one-on-one talks with his French counterpart, President Francois Hollande, in Canberra ranging across trade, security and the need for binding emissions targets. But he said individual country commitments to reduce carbon pollution must not come at the expense of jobs and growth or they will inevitably fail.

The apparent shift from climate change resister to global action advocate came as he added the giant European Union to his priority list for a free trade agreement and called for greater intelligence sharing with the French on counter-terrorism, and the difficult issue of foreign fighters travelling to and from Iraq and Syria.

Mr Abbott said Australia and France were working side by side to defeat the Islamic State organisation in Iraq but pointedly added that “we’ve got more to do particularly when it comes to intelligence-sharing on the question of foreign fighters”.

“Climate change is an important subject. It is a subject that the world needs to tackle as a whole. Yes, each country has to do its bit to tackle the emissions problem. We are all doing what we can, Australia as well, and we need a strong and effective agreement from Paris next year.”

Mr Abbott said on Wednesday.

Obama rallied the world’s leaders and tried to organize action to slow carbon emissions and climate change. He announced a $3 billion contribution to the Green Climate Fund. The GCF helps developing countries curb carbon emissions and deal with the effects of climate change such as heat waves, mudslides and rising sea levels. Japan also announced a $1.5 million contribution during the G20 Summit. On November 20, at a meeting in Berlin, many other wealthy nations pledged money to the fund.

Continuing his efforts to portray climate change as a global problem in need of a global solution, Obama spoke to an audience at the University of Queensland about environmental responsibility. The crowd applauded every time Obama mentioned climate change. He asserted that the Asia-Pacific region had more at stake from extreme weather and rising oceans than any other part of the world. {Obama Champions the Great Barrier Reef Despite Resistance}

For the North Americans Dr. John P. Holdren, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy is willing to do everything he can to help.

Ask Dr. John P. Holdren anything you want to know about climate change, and forward this to anyone you know who has questions, too.

Mean surface temperature change for 1999–2008 relative to the average temperatures from 1940 to 1980 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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