"A documentary that looks at pundits-for-hire who present themselves as
scientific authorities as they speak about topics like toxic chemicals,
pharmaceuticals and climate change.
Director: Robert Kenner" YouTube
Tony Wolfe has worked in coal for over forty years. But he knows it's time for a change - it's time to embrace renewables.
Australia needs clean jobs to reboot its economy. That's why we created the Clean Jobs Plan.
The Climate Council is Australia's leading independent, community-funded climate change communications organisation. We're a catalyst propelling Australia to take bold, effective steps to address the climate crisis.
We're made up of some of the country’s leading climate scientists, health, renewable energy and policy experts, as well as a team of staff, and a huge community of volunteers and supporters who power our work.
"As climate change worsens, the future of fossil fuel jobs and infrastructure is uncertain. But a new energy storage technology
invented in Australia could enable coal-fired power stations to run
entirely emissions-free. The novel material, called miscibility gap alloy (MGA),
stores energy in the form of heat.
MGA is housed in small blocks of
blended metals, which receive energy generated by renewables such as
solar and wind.
MGA
The energy can then be used as an alternative to coal to run steam
turbines at coal-fired power stations, without producing emissions.
Stackable like Lego, MGA blocks can be added or removed, scaling
electricity generation up or down to meet demand.
MGA blocks are a fraction of the cost of a rival energy storage technology, lithium-ion batteries. Our invention has been proven in the lab – now we are moving to the next phase of proving it in the real world."
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"If our electricity grid is to become emissions-free, we need an
energy storage option that’s both affordable and versatile enough to be
rolled out at massive scale - providing six to eight hours of
dispatchable power every night. MGAs store energy for a day to a week. This fills a “middle” time
frame between batteries and hydro-power, and allows intermittent
renewable energy to be dispatched when needed."
Remember when you would take your TV to get repaired if it was broken?
Now, most people just buy a new one.
When a new phone comes out, we
ditch the old one. Each time we do this we're eating into a finite
supply of resources and creating mountains of waste.
A circular economy –
also known as closing the loop – is when used items don't end up in
landfill, but instead become the building blocks for new products.
There's a whole industry waiting to be developed in Australia, if
governments would get on board.
Three
Seconds is a short motivational piece to get younger and older
generations alike to stand up for trees and a clean future. This spoken
word piece by artist Prince Ea was designed to put into perspective our
existence on earth’s timeline and to excite viewers for the fight
against the status quo that too often disregards Mother Nature.
Short Film
About Three Seconds: An epic presentation of where humanity stands today and how we must all work together to make it to the fourth second. Climate Change is real.
"Fossil fuels are not only dangerous for our planet but to those working in the industry itself. It’s beyond time for a #RenewableRevolution. (via The Years Project)"
video, fossil fuel subsidies, workers, jobs, global corruption, corporategreed, #jailclimatecriminals,
Sadly, at the federal government level in Australia, there is a lack of political will and action when it comes to climate change, Martin Rice, acting CEO at the Climate Council told CNBC.
The Guardian reveals the 20 fossil fuel companies whose relentless exploitation of the world’s oil, gas and coal reserves can be directly linked to more than one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions in the modern era. Global environment editor, Jonathan Watts, explains how they have continued to expand their operations despite being aware of the industry’s devastating impact on the planet.
Earth at 2° hotter will be horrific. Now here’s what 4° will look like.
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The best-case scenario of climate change is that world gets just 2°C hotter, which scientists call the "threshold of catastrophe".
Why is that the good news? Because if humans don't change course now, the planet is on a trajectory to reach 4°C at the end of this century, which would bring $600 trillion in global climate damages, double the warfare, and a refugee crisis 100x worse than the Syrian exodus.
David Wallace-Wells explains what would happen at an 8°C and even 13°C increase. These predictions are horrifying, but should not scare us into complacency. "It should make us focus on them more intently," he says.
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DAVID WALLACE-WELLS:
David Wallace-Wells is a national fellow at the New America foundation and a columnist and deputy editor at New York magazine. He was previously the deputy editor of The Paris Review. He lives in New York City.
British Academy Film Award and Academy Award nominee, Keira Knightley, OBE, has come out in support of Extinction Rebellion.
Keira has lent her voice to defend the climate and tell the truth in this new, short film that summarises the crisis from how we got here, and what we must do now.
The animation shows why government must enter crisis mode and choose a different path than the one we are on because it will lead us to extinction.
Keira joins Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry, William Dafoe, Javier Bardem, Paloma Faith, Radiohead and all other people who know that we are facing an unprecedented global emergency.
"Ice on Fire is a 2019 documentary which explores the potential extinction level event
caused by arctic methane release, and the newly developed technologies
that could reverse global warming by sequestering carbon out of the
atmosphere.[1] The film premiered to a standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival on May 22, 2019.[2][3][4] and is slated for release on HBO on June 11, 2019.[5][6][7]"
Produced by Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio, George DiCaprio and Mathew
Schmid and directed by Leila Conners, Ice on Fire is an eye-opening
documentary that focuses on many never-before-seen solutions designed to
slow down our escalating environmental crisis.
Ice on Fire premieres June 11 at 8 PM.
"Climate Change is the defining issue of our time and we are at a
defining moment. From shifting weather patterns that threaten food
production, to rising sea levels that increase the risk of catastrophic
flooding, the impacts of climate change are global in scope and
unprecedented in scale. Without drastic action today, adapting to these
impacts in the future will be more difficult and costly."
NBC News Published on Nov 24, 2018 "Evidence of human-caused climate change is strengthening, a new report
from 13 federal agencies says. It could cost hundreds of billions of
dollars from rising sea levels and infrastructure damage, among other
impacts."
Published on Nov 24, 2018
Evidence of human-caused climate change is strengthening, a new report from 13 federal agencies says. It could cost hundreds of billions of dollars from rising sea levels and infrastructure damage, among other impacts.
