How the Fossil Fuel Industry Got the Media to Think Climate Change Was Debatable: Medium

Business interests actively worked to make scientific facts seem like partisan opinions.

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Does Climate Change Mean I Can’t Have Kids?

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"Like a growing number of potential parents, I’m questioning the ethics of bringing children into a warming world."

 "Future children. The thought of them is why — when my mother made the comment about my grandfather — my satisfaction was tinged with sadness and worry.

This year, I’ve begun to question if I can have children.

I don’t mean “can” in the biological sense, but in the ethical

Climate Change and Childbearing

sense. I don’t know if I can have children in a world rapidly approaching unlivable temperatures, rising seas, and mass extinctions."

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NSW Greens launch plan for 1 million households to have solar in four years

The NSW Greens have today launched a $1.25 billion comprehensive plan to ensure at least one million extra households in NSW can either install solar panels or be part of community renewable energy schemes within four years.  The Household Solar Plan is part of the Greens Roadmap to 100% Renewable Energy by 2030 and involves:

• Mandatory solar plus batteries for all new dwellings - 350,000 in four years
• $2000 rebate for rooftop solar and batteries for 500,000 households
• Solar panels on all public housing and government buildings - 110,000 public housing tenants receive electricity rebates
• A community solar offset scheme for apartment owners and renters - 200,000 participants in four years
• A Fair Price for Solar - mandatory extra 4.4c/kW for avoided health and social costs

Research: Young people's burden: requirement of negative CO2 emissions: ESD

Global surface temperatures

"Continued high fossil fuel emissions unarguably sentences young people to either a massive, implausible cleanup or growing deleterious climate impacts or both." 

A dire opportunity: rural communities in the face of climate change: CRA

Soil Health - Decarbonisation

"So, how far behind are we, and how much do these new reports change the conversation? In 2017, James Hansen, who is a native Iowan and one of the top climatologists in the world, published a report with some updated figures. We have already warmed the world beyond 1° C and have enough carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to commit ourselves to at least 1.3° C. To stay at or below 1.5° C would mean keeping atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration to 350 parts per million (ppm) or lower, hence the name of the activist group 350.org. We crossed the threshold of 400 ppm in 2013.

1.5°C = Zero Fossil Fuels: 350.org

1.5 degrees heating

It’s simple — to keep global warming below 1.5°C, coal, oil + gas needs to stay in the ground.

On October 8, 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a special report on keeping warming below 1.5°C. It was a wake-up call to the world that the window for avoiding runaway climate change is closing — fast.

To have any chance of staying under 1.5°C of warming, no new fossil fuel project can be allowed to go ahead.

The fossil fuel industry is knowingly causing the climate crisis. Every institution and every single level of government has a role to play in stopping this reckless industry before it’s too late.

We must demand that all institutions withdraw their support from the fossil fuel industry — be that investments, sponsorships, subsidies or permits — and stand up to the industry before it’s too late.

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From Medium: The Economics of Climate Change Explained

Increased coastal storms due to climate change are expected to cause significant economic damage.

"Climate change is well known for its destructive impacts — ranging from rising sea levels to more fierce natural disasters. There is increasing concern that some areas currently home to many people could become uninhabitable within only a few short decades. The world has come together in response, forming the Paris Agreement in an attempt to mitigate the effects of climate change.