BINOY KAMPMARK writes about the Australian Government harsh repression of journalistic exposure of some of their more shameful acts of State Government policy. Meanwhile, Australia continues to participate in the USA's ongoing Afghanistan War Lies. Now with a new $270 billion dollars for new defence hardware scams, which cannot keep up with all the lies, which won't protect anyone from a climate devastated future.
Attorney-General Christian Porter insists on prosecuting former ASIS officer Witness K and his lawyer, Bernard Collaery, for daring to shame Australian government by exposing a blatant intentional wrong against a friendly country. And of course Australia's old partner in Crimes of Imperialism, United Kingdom is being by allowed by federal ALP and LNP parties to torture Julian Assange unto death by prosecution or extradition, which ever comes first. Prosecution of journalists demonstrates the continued desire of States to commit further heinous crimes. States prove their own guilt by tossing the messengers into goal. Crimes of individuals are overpowered by ongoing crimes of nation - states, for which there are no laws, police, or prosecution, for the acts of fossil-fool, stupid-wealth-crazy political classes.
There is a growing record - sized petition, and email campaign, against both Australian and UK state institutions, to do something about the log jams in their eyes. ( https://www.assangecampaign.org.au/ )
That is with continued business as usual, at the rate of destruction of ecosystem habitats still happening. No one set out to systemically target Koala habitats. They just set out to keep making money by selling products made from chewed up native forests. Agricultural clearing, drought and bushfires and global heating have changed entire systems. Some species will never return to the same places, as they fail to tolerate growing extremes of heat and variable rainfall. Ecosystems evolve, and diversify locally. They are not planted for our convenience. If koala habitats are going fast, si are many other less less iconic species. They will also be going away forever, along with the possibility of co-evolving for a long time. Even Australian's thin soils need time to be replaced on our ancient continental island.
Robert Hunziker writes again on our global multiple screaming ecosystem alarm bells, while our Industrial Civilisation sticks its collective heads deeper into the sands of denial. Some leaders are even using our intrinsic denial to counter the facts of our corona virus pandemic. This cause an uncertain temporary dip effect on our global population growth, and ecosystem impacts. Our rebound of population growth and ecosystem exploitation is still to be feared.
... whilst climate change disrupts ecosystems on the fringes of civilization, [industrial] society comfortably exists in artificial complexities of cement, steel, glass, and wood within a vast chemically induced world that only recognizes the danger of collapsing ecosystems after it’s too late. Then, it is too late!
Record prolonged summer temperatures around the Arctic circle are melting the ground permafrost that lies below most of Siberia's infrastructure. ABC radio national inteviewed Samantha Burgess, from the Copernicus Climate Change Service in the UK. She emphasized that our climate predicament is dire, and we are really doing almost nothing about it, compared to actual mitigation requirements. We need to rapidly abandon our greenhouse gas emitting lifestyles.
Verkhoyansk is in north-east Russia, has a new record maximum of + 38°C. It holds a global records for measured widest temperature range on Earth. Verkhoyansk winter temperatures fall towards -50°C. It is all about location, which is inland, with extreme seasonal variation of day length above the Arctic Circle. Even so, this new record is +17°C above the expected average temperature. Siberia's forests are again burning from wildfires, one of several global heating positive feedbacks that likely to be getting worse, put on top of our own record accumulation of hydrosphere carbon-dioxide. Our global weather systems are complex. Earth's weather systems have more heat energy to be redistributed. Our global heating changes are causing multiple systems-wide effects.
Australia's next fire season will again be a new incremental roaster.
Published July 2019. Indicates that renewable energy investment is the only way now possible to get a reasonable return on investment of fossil fuels. Already beset by rising extraction costs and diminishing energy return, price crashes, and drop in global affordability, fossil fuels look like they will soon not be able to pay for themselves. Global economic slowdowns due to corona virus, threaten the very large debt bubble that was propping up much fossil fuel extraction operations.
Summary : Researchers have calculated the EROI for fossil fuels over a 16 year period and found that at the finished fuel stage, the ratios are much closer to those of renewable energy sources -- roughly 6:1, and potentially as low as 3:1 in the case of electricity.
Link was found in the article "Europe must prepare for life after oil" by Nafeez Ahmed.
Link to ACF petition, and campaign to push politicians for Australia to get off its coal addiction, and massively increase investment in renewable energy.
Watch the video , or read this "The Conversation" article to see why.
With Morrison now pursuing bilateral agreements with the states to open up more gas reserves, it is vitally important to interrogate the logic of gas as a transition fuel.
. . . in the 30-odd years since gas was first talked up as a transition fuel, humans have added more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than they did in all of human history before that point. We are twice as far from stable global temperatures now as we were when the the concept of a transition fuel was born, and emissions are accelerating in the wrong direction.
Two years of worst ever seen dryness. Farms are shutting down. Rural Australia is ravaged. Even Sydney has been dry. There is promise of an inch or so of rain in Sydney in the middle of this week, maybe the first serious rain for some months.
What about our fossil-fool governments? No doubt they will deny, their intentions ensure Australia will become a permanent, hot, drought crippled write-off, therefore only good for coal, oil, gas and resource mining, just the way the fossil - fools are making it it, and more of it. Ditto for the rest of the planet.
Fossil fool civilisation needs to collapse, along with our energy use lifestyle pretensions, before complete biosphere collapse and write-off, because that is all there is time left to do.
Sea level rise from global heating is doubling in speed
Runaway global warming is when natural carbon dioxide emissions from enhanced thawing of northern permafrost occur, and match or exceed human industrial emissions. As global increase in atmosphere CO2 sets a new record in 2019, some of that increase is likely to include the results of additional permafrost thawing, because the no-freeze-up boundary is moving south, and happens later in the season. The Arctic is the worlds organic carbon fridge, it is defrosting, and the hundreds of feet of organic carbon are going off with bacterial decomposition, the edges of which release greenhouse gases as fast as a putrefying joint of meat, or a "a bucket of prawns in the sun". Here is a link to the National Geographic Article. -
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/08/news-arctic-permafrost-may-thaw-faster-than-expected/
Weather systems on the East Coast of Australia are now showing what they can do with all the extra heat energy that Global Warming has squeezed into our oceans and atmosphere. The BOM says bushfires in Queensland and floods in Sydney are linked by a connecting weather system. They are also linked by being part of a global warmed ocean and atmosphere system. Heat from the continent interior has smashed coastal temperature records in North Queensland. The bush fires near Rockhampton can only be run away from.
The Yongding River. that supplied Beijing, has been dry for 30 years. At its peak, the 700-kilometre river was at least 10 metres deep.
The cause seems to be that the sources, the plateaus and mountain ranges, are drying up. Last winter, Beijing endured its longest period without any precipitation, snow or rain — 112 days. Every year remaining farmers have to go deeper into the watertable. On average, it is dropping 1 to 3 metres a year around Beijing. The Government's $100 billion South-North Water Transfer Project has been tipped as a solution. In unusually blunt terms, former Chinese premier Wen Jiabao has warned the lack of water threatened the very survival of the Chinese nation itself.
Of course, the other notable thing that Bejing is famous for, besides being the political, administrative capital and having a big population, is the poor air quality, because of large numbers of coal burning power stations. Constant production of large volumes of atmosphere pollutants such as sulphur dioxides, and soot particles, must have a marked effect on local climate, as well as being a cause of global climate change, and poor health consequences for all of its citizens.
Australian's with connections to Asian communities maybe more aware of climate change than the average white australian.
Facebook video shows many Australians rising up for climate against the coal coup leadership spill of the australian federal Government.
Online book of terrific pictures
and text that graphically describe our current world and predicaments of now.
Has to be seen to be believed, much better than any expensive tourist holiday.
Best viewed on a large screen.
Overdevelopment X Overpopulation = Overshoot
At this rate , pretty soon, earth is going to be "Game OVER".
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do not see this sort of Article very often in a News Ltd publication.
State governments everywhere, cater specially for the interests of less than one percent of population, while their propaganda targets the bottom 20% of population. When the serfs start to doubt, then governments may tumble.
Australia is no exception. The domesticated politicians of Australian governments by priority support the interests of foreign coal and mining interests, invested in by those elites who are far less than one percent of voters.
This is now officially denied by latest Prime Muppet, Scott Morrison,
parliamentary coal handler extraordinaire, who wears an Australia Flag Badge, as faked authenticity.
History shows that States always, everywhere, are enemies of the truth.
States are about growth, and expanding our take from nature. States are instigators of war, concentrators of wealth and power, tools of oppression, and the playgrounds of influence by elites. Australian governments are deep in their games of mates. Its time for a big clean-out.
Australian States, as high per capita carbon emissions, are fossil fuel powered in energy and politics alike. Truths about climate change are ignored and suppressed.
Many people will now be taking these matters into their own hands. People everywhere are installing their own solar panel and battery systems, at far greater rates than before. Australian Governments have resisted the need to plan for rapid phase out of fossil fuel stationary energy generation, which is a vital first step for overall carbon emissions reductions. These poor coal critter excuses for a government need to be tumbled down into the coal mine pits from whence they came.
This is very strong evidence that the NSW Liberal Government is run for and by the interests of International Coal Oligarchs.
Water should be of prime concern for Sydney's 5 million and growing population, as we should expect the next centuries of climate change heat waves and drought.
The sacrifice of water supply quantity and quality, by NSW Government, for more Climate Change causing Coal Mining, is a typical example of lobby-purchased climate change denial and sacrifice of public interest. Obviously the NSW miniions of the Coal Oligarchs are happy to sacrifice their grand-childrens future. As usual NSW government ignores the dreadful ecological crimes that they are committing.