"This week the federal Coalition government
decided to dump 90 per cent of the coal projects that had been submitted
to its big underwriting program, and chose instead a shortlist
dominated by renewables backed by battery storage and pumped hydro, and
some gas and just one coal upgrade.
The choice may have been driven more by politics than economics,
given the project developers were asked for only a broad outline of
their proposal and there is an election just a few weeks away.
But when the final detailed tenders come in later this year –
assuming the program survives the upcoming election campaign – the
economic case for favouring renewables and storage projects should be
crystal clear, if the latest numbers from global analysts BloombergNEF
are anything to go by.
"To scientists in Antarctica, President Trump is weirder than a seapig.
On Tuesday, Trump tweeted a quote from Patrick Moore, a well-known
climate denier who claims to have been a co-founder of Greenpeace. (He
wasn’t, and Greenpeace
has disavowed him as a “paid lobbyist.”) “The whole climate crisis is
not only Fake News, it’s Fake Science,” Trump quoted Moore as saying on
an episode of Fox & Friends." "I showed Trump’s tweet to Larter on my
iPhone. As he read it, he smiled slightly and shook his head. “It’s
crazy talk,” said Larter, who is British. “Do any Americans really
believe that stuff?”"
• Suddenly, many conservative politicians in Australia have 'backflipped' and now publicly accept that we are living in an age of rapid climate change....
BUT
Vote for my future climate
• Many politicians still fail to grasp the catastrophic impacts of climate change all life on Earth will soon experience, therefore they are only 'greenwashing' their election campaigns.
• Most scientists believe we are very likely to heat the planet well beyond 2 degrees. • The Liberal - National Party Coalition has loudly and publicly rebadged Tony Abbott's Direct Action funding, which inefficiently used your taxes to bribe polluters but has the proposed funding allocation by $200 million at the same time.
• Under the threat of an election defeat by a
The young want climate action
climate activist, Tony Abbott now says he believes in climate change. • NSW has the biggest state economy yet it's contribution to planning for climate change and slowing global heating is pitiful. • Yet some National Party and Liberal Party MPs still want to build new, subsidised, coal-powered energy generators even though renewable energy is cheaper and as reliable. • The Federal Labor Party still supports the Queensland Labor Party's support of new, massive, coal mines. It has no plan to transition coal workers out of coal mining jobs. • The above parties have no real planning for slowing and mitigating the effects of climate change. It is unlikely we will meet the Paris targets, (don't believe the false accounting of the the Liberal Party - National Party Coalition).
• Only candidates promising a massive attack on the causes of climate change and promising real planning for more economic downturns, droughts, heat waves, bush fires, epidemics, food and water shortages, health epidemics, ocean acidification, animal extinctions, sea inundations, property devaluations and waves of climate refugee immigration deserve your first vote.
Ten years after climate movie The Age of Stupid had its green-carpet,
solar-powered premiere, we follow its director as she revisits people
and places from the film and asks: are we still heading for
the catastrophic future it depicted?
• We are looking more and more unlikely to prevent global heating. • Scientists are predicting the melting of the ice covering Greenland with a subsequent sea level rise of 7m. • This rise does not factor in sea rise from the melting of Antarctica and other ice. • Already many properties are likely to flood when a high tide is
combined with high local rainfall. What were a hundred year rainfall events are
now ten year events. • The frequency of high
rainfall events will increase with global heating and more and more
severe hurricanes are predicted because of warmer seas. • Low coastal areas will be subjected to severe storm surges. •
Would you buy a property likely to be inundated in twenty years, fifty
years, a hundred years? Many wouldn't. Even the perception of possible
inundation will greatly affect property values. Insurers are already reluctant to insure many properties that were once only likely to flood every 100 years. • When certain properties are in less demand their value falls. • Would you buy a property with a value likely to fall? • The view of Kempsey above shows areas likely to be inundated by a 7m sea level rise. • Property above a 10m rise will become highly sought after and will greatly rise in value. Learn more about how sea rise inundation will affect Australian property.
Nambucca Heads with sea rise of 7m. Click to enlarge
• We are looking more and more unlikely to prevent global heating. • Scientists are predicting the melting of the ice covering Greenland with a subsequent sea level rise of 7m. • This rise does not factor in sea rise from the melting of Antarctica and other ice. • Already many properties are likely to flood when a high tide is
combined with high local rainfall. What were a hundred year rainfall events are
now ten year events. • The frequency of high
rainfall events will increase with global heating and more and more
severe hurricanes are predicted because of warmer seas. • Low coastal areas will be subjected to severe storm surges. •
Would you buy a property likely to be inundated in twenty years, fifty
years, a hundred years? Many wouldn't. Even the perception of possible
inundation will greatly affect property values. Insurers are already reluctant to insure many properties that were once only likely to flood every 100 years. • When certain properties are in less demand their value falls. • Would you buy a property with a value likely to fall? • The view of Nambucca Heads above shows areas likely to be inundated by a 7m sea level rise. • Property above a 10m rise will become highly sought after and will greatly rise in value. Learn more about how sea rise inundation will affect Australian property.
This is what the world will be like if we do not act on climate change.
- 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.
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. His latest book is The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (https://goo.gl/ih35YX)
This is what the world will be like if we do not act on climate change.
- 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.
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. His latest book is The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (https://goo.gl/ih35YX)
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