> Academics from World Weather Attribution have already published an analysis that found the heatwave that blanketed much of Australia in early January was five times more likely to occur now than before human-caused global heating changed the climate.
> This is now a key part of the story of heat across the continent and beyond. It’s remarkable – and a win for fossil fuel companies and climate change denying vested interests – that **it is rarely mentioned in daily news of heatwaves and other extreme weather events**.
[…]
> Labor continues to back opening and exploring for new gas fields that could operate for decades, including in the offshore Otway basin, just south of where bushfires are now burning. On Tuesday, a report by researchers at Urgewald ranked Australia at the top of a global list for planned expansion of metallurgical coal used in steel making. Thermal coal expansions still get the greenlight.
> Anthony Albanese’s defence of this is that other countries are responsible for the emissions released when they burn Australian fossil fuels. But **this is a constructed argument. It reflects decades-old carbon accounting rules, not an inherent truth.**
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YES.
Yesterday was difficult for not only the heat. It’s depressing because we have known this would happen for fifty years or more but greed won out over life on this planet. Not just our life. All life.
We have been too stupid to look after our chickens and now they’re home to roost.
And the band plays on
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>Academics from World Weather Attribution have already published an analysis that found the heatwave that blanketed much of Australia in early January was five times more likely to occur now than before human-caused global heating changed the climate.
>The study found the heat that helped fuel bushfires that have burned more than 400,000 hectares (about 1m acres) and destroyed nearly 900 buildings since January was likely about 1.6C hotter due to the climate crisis.
>This more than offset a weak La Niña weather pattern that probably slightly lowered temperatures compared with what they otherwise would have been. The heat would have been even worse if there was no La Niña and likely worse again if there had been a temperature amplifying El Niño.
Meanwhile One Nation has a record primary vote, who are science and climate change denying morons, want to remove us from the Paris agreement, end the climate change department and stop net zero – all based on the worst kind of (non) evidence.
>It is clear to us that climate research needs to continue, but after thirty years of work by the IPCC there is insufficient evidence of global warming of the kind claimed by the IPCC and there is insufficient evidence of the climate catastrophes predicted.
>We conclude with high statistical confidence that the scientific consensus on human-caused contemporary climate change—expressed as a proportion of the total publications—exceeds 99% in the peer reviewed scientific literature.
World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency
William J Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Thomas M Newsome, Phoebe Barnard, William R Moomaw, 05/11/2019
>Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to “tell it like it is.” On the basis of this obligation and the graphical indicators presented below, we declare, with more than 11,000 scientist signatories from around the world, clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency.
We *need* to do something about the huge and rising of climate deniers in this country, lest we become just like the US.
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> Academics from World Weather Attribution have already published an analysis that found the heatwave that blanketed much of Australia in early January was five times more likely to occur now than before human-caused global heating changed the climate.
> This is now a key part of the story of heat across the continent and beyond. It’s remarkable – and a win for fossil fuel companies and climate change denying vested interests – that **it is rarely mentioned in daily news of heatwaves and other extreme weather events**.
[…]
> Labor continues to back opening and exploring for new gas fields that could operate for decades, including in the offshore Otway basin, just south of where bushfires are now burning. On Tuesday, a report by researchers at Urgewald ranked Australia at the top of a global list for planned expansion of metallurgical coal used in steel making. Thermal coal expansions still get the greenlight.
> Anthony Albanese’s defence of this is that other countries are responsible for the emissions released when they burn Australian fossil fuels. But **this is a constructed argument. It reflects decades-old carbon accounting rules, not an inherent truth.**
YES.
Yesterday was difficult for not only the heat. It’s depressing because we have known this would happen for fifty years or more but greed won out over life on this planet. Not just our life. All life.
We have been too stupid to look after our chickens and now they’re home to roost.
And the band plays on
>Academics from World Weather Attribution have already published an analysis that found the heatwave that blanketed much of Australia in early January was five times more likely to occur now than before human-caused global heating changed the climate.
>The study found the heat that helped fuel bushfires that have burned more than 400,000 hectares (about 1m acres) and destroyed nearly 900 buildings since January was likely about 1.6C hotter due to the climate crisis.
>This more than offset a weak La Niña weather pattern that probably slightly lowered temperatures compared with what they otherwise would have been. The heat would have been even worse if there was no La Niña and likely worse again if there had been a temperature amplifying El Niño.
Meanwhile One Nation has a record primary vote, who are science and climate change denying morons, want to remove us from the Paris agreement, end the climate change department and stop net zero – all based on the worst kind of (non) evidence.
MISINFORMATION:
Climate – One Nation
https://www.onenation.org.au/climate
>It is clear to us that climate research needs to continue, but after thirty years of work by the IPCC there is insufficient evidence of global warming of the kind claimed by the IPCC and there is insufficient evidence of the climate catastrophes predicted.
SCIENTIFIC FACT:
Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature – IOPscience
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2966
>We conclude with high statistical confidence that the scientific consensus on human-caused contemporary climate change—expressed as a proportion of the total publications—exceeds 99% in the peer reviewed scientific literature.
World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency
William J Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Thomas M Newsome, Phoebe Barnard, William R Moomaw, 05/11/2019
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/70/1/8/5610806
>Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to “tell it like it is.” On the basis of this obligation and the graphical indicators presented below, we declare, with more than 11,000 scientist signatories from around the world, clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency.
We *need* to do something about the huge and rising of climate deniers in this country, lest we become just like the US.