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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…
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 world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
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Tomorrow [8th of October] is not just another Monday. The 48th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 48) is convening from 1-5 October 2018, in Incheon, Republic of Korea. Consider the state of current general policy response to a warming planet and those that offer 'opinion' or 'identity' as a generational policy vector. We should take Hitch's…
Even if I do say so myself! August 5th 2004 - A Senator Obama addresses the Democratic Convention... I suggested he would be the next Democratic President! Here [2004] and here [2009]
70 years ago today. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1948 Dr Herbert Vere Evatt ( 'Doc') was elected President of the General Assembly of the United Nations, the only Australian to have ever held the position. He presided over the adoption and proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the cornerstone of human rights protection throughout…
For those that asked. http://youtu.be/uQqNZf8vJPo?list=UUmWzPTYrtJQ3Up1muMu-i6Q Graph Source: Harvard - Atlas of Economic Complexity
John Oliver helping us through the biggest public policy question of all-time.. Beginning with: 1. Do owls exist? 2. Are there hats? http://youtu.be/cjuGCJJUGsg Links: The White House - Climate Change CSIRO - Climate Change and Adaptation Neighbours - Climate - Behaviour 330 and Counting Six Decades of a Warming Earth Are you Hot enough yet? Hot, Hotter, Hottest