The Group of Seven western industrialised states (G7) has committed to making their electricity systems “predominantly” carbon-free by 2035, but stopped short of setting a concrete date for exiting coal. Following their meeting in Berlin, the G7 environment, climate and energy ministers said only that they would support “an accelerated global unabated coal phase-out”. Analysts said the announcement to decarbonise…
At times like these, it’s worth considering the words of Carl Sagan. https://youtu.be/wupToqz1e2g Pale Blue Dot Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident…
Twelve years. Things change. Always. Liquid Roof A new Sky The Journey The Journey – Some Links TenSix Years“There is no cure for trauma” – David J. Morris – Salon “The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder” by David J. Morris.Black Saturday – ABCBlack Saturday - WikipediaBlack Saturday - National GeographicBlack Saturday - Articles & Research - The ConversationSettlement for…
Source: Geoscience Australia Just sayin... The Australian continent has the highest solar radiation per square metre of any continent in the world. That's 10,000 times LARGER than our energy consumption!Geoscience Australia
The Club of Rome's report from 1972 is 50 years old. I read it when it was first published... A sobering and influential read then. What's changed in that time? World Model Standard Run as shown in The Limits to Growth The Last Call? https://youtu.be/gt4WsMfi6d0 Links Limits to Growth ... was right!The Club of Rome – Limits to Growth Is Global…
The worlds warming cities. Apologies to the Drifters... When this old world starts getting me downAnd people are just too much for me to faceI climb way up to the top of the stairsAnd all my cares just drift right into spaceOn the roof, it's peaceful as can beAnd there the world below can't bother meLet me tell you nowThe…
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The Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis is now out. The report addresses the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, and global and regional climate simulations. Links Code…