Is this the incentive we need? — IPCC Climate Report: Medium

Climate Catastrophe?

The IPCC is currently conducting a study in South Korea — and it is likely to report that keeping global warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius is possible — with immediate, radical action.

 

  Could this finally be the thing that kickstarts the green revolution, with governments not just meeting targets but far exceeding them? I’m sceptical, but optimistic at the same time.

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GAME-CHANGING LEGAL DECISION ON COAL in Australia

*JUST IN: GAME-CHANGING LEGAL DECISION ON COAL*

As we sat awaiting the verdict, the tension was palpable.

But then - euphoria swept across the courtroom.

In an Australian first, the NSW Land and Environment Court this morning rejected the Rocky Hill coal mine near Gloucester, on social and climate change grounds.

Video: Busting Climate Change Myths \ Answers with Joe/ You Tube

Earth Day was this weekend, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to look at some of the most common myths promoted by climate change skeptics and see what the science has to say about it. Links to supporting material below.


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Cave Experiment: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2...

More about the fossil fuel industry and tobacco companies using the same tactics:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar... Peter Doran's Climate Science Survey: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c... Climate change consensus same as smoking and cancer: https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar... Why CO2 alone won't help plants grow: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-... Lori Fenton's paper on Mars warming: https://www.nature.com/articles/natur...

On the single cause fallacy that climate change in the past is the reason why it's changing now: https://www.skepticalscience.com/clim...

Sulphur Dioxide trends in relation to volcanic activity: https://www.epa.gov/air-trends/sulfur...
An article about Debbie Dooley: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/bu...
Military Times article about pentagon planning for climate change: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/yo...
Exxon Mobil new CEO embracing the carbon tax: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...
Study on Exxon Mobil scientists and internal communications: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22...

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The case for “conditional optimism” on climate change: Vox

"Yes, it’s going to get worse, but nobody gets to give up hope or stop fighting. Sorry."

"In sum: humanity faces the urgent imperative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, then eliminate them, and then go “net carbon negative,” i.e., absorb and sequester more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits. It will face that imperative for several generations to come, no matter what the temperature is.

Yes, it’s going to get worse, but nobody gets to give up hope or stop fighting. Sorry.

Rather than just rejecting the question, though, let’s give it a little more specificity, so we can discuss some real answers. Let’s ask: What are the reasonable odds that the current international regime, the one that will likely be in charge for the next dozen crucial years, will reduce global carbon emissions enough to hit the 2 degree target?"

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Guy McPherson - Soul Crushing Climate Despair: Video

Walking the line between hope and despair

Tim Bob

 

Published on Jan 21, 2019

Jan 15, 2019 - Burnout - The Toll of Studying Climate Change, 

Jan 18, 2019 - Doug Peacock and Guy in Tucson AZ

 

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Climate change will wipe $2.5tn off global financial assets: study

Stock Exchange

"Losses could soar to $24tn and wreck the global economy in worst case scenario, first economic modelling estimate suggests"

"The new study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Climate Change, used economic modelling to estimate the impact of unchecked climate change. 

It found that in that scenario, the assets were effectively overvalued today by $2.5tn, but that there was a 1% chance that the overvaluation could be as high as $24tn.
The losses would be caused by the direct destruction of assets by increasingly extreme weather events and also by a reduction in earnings for those affected by high temperatures, drought and other climate change impacts."

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Do you think Santos wants something in return for its donations?

Fossil fuels and politics

"Despite calls from the crossbench during debate on the foreign integrity laws, the major parties refused to entertain changes to either the donation threshold or the timeliness of disclosures." ABC

Meanwhile regional anti gas well campaigners carry on their struggle against polluting corporations like Santos.