#Climate

Australia - like many English-speaking countries - is full of lovely people who somehow manage to keep electing far-right, genocidal, climate-denying governments of surpassing administrative incompetence.1/ The most likely explanation:
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This is a powerful new intervention: a climate mitigation scenario for staying under 1.5C that does not rely on speculative negative emissions technologies. Check it out:https://www.boell.de/en/2020/12/09/societal-transformation-scenario-st
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remember when press gallery journos spent the election campaign saying the Morrison government has no agenda? No climate policy? That was convenient cover for the Morrison government agenda of promoting
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To address the underlying causes for the current level of immigration & asylum requests at our border AND ensure that we have a fair, predictable and lawful system to process
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Our Perspective is out in @NatureGeosci! “Opportunities and challenges in using remaining carbon budget to guide climate policy” -- everything you ever wanted to know about carbon budgets in only
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On the 5th anniversary of the #ParisAgreement, the General Assembly of @ICOMOS (the global cultural heritage NGO) has overwhelmingly voted to declare a Climate & Ecological Emergency. A THREAD /1
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What was the big news you missed yesterday?@Equinor is going to net-zero in 2050...There are a range of measures. The system boundary is expanded to include Scope 3 (use of
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An undervalued factor in climate mitigation analysis is the time value of CO2. A molecule prevented today is worth considerably more than a molecule in 15 years. Over those 15
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Along w/ Biden climate news, some thoughts on solar geoengineering (SG) research under Biden Admin. SG closer to Biden/Democratic politics than Trump/Conservative: science-based, multilateral “green” capitalism. Recent moves indicate SG
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Texas is experiencing a humanitarian crisis. People are burning furniture to heat their homes, melting snow to flush their toilets, risking carbon monoxide poisoning to protect their children.If Texas was
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LEEDS LEADS CLIMATE BREAKDOWN8 hours and 1000 flawed arguments and biased procedures later, Leeds City Plans Panel voted 9-5 for airport expansion and the false promises of economic growth.For “what
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Continuing the discussion of Malm's new book, "Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency", here's a thread about the eco-modernist assumptions of carbon capture storage. Malm praises Climework's direct air carbon capture (DAC
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Climate scientists have estimated that #Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C. And this is just one of *hundreds* of other cryptocurrency networks that run on this
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The Global Carbon Budget report for 2020 is out.Due to the pandemic, they estimate that carbon dioxide emissions will have fallen 6.7% globally in 2020.That's the largest absolute decline ever,
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We are in a #climateemergency – the wellbeing of the entire planet, and the lives of everyone on it, is at risk. Time is running out to change course. Yet
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How's Australian aid performing when we look at the numbers? A new @devpolicy report I co-authored investigates: https://devpolicy.org/what-australian-aid-flows-show-20210113/Thread follows.(1/8)Most donors have become more generous sin
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