Daily Links Oct 31

The Pentecostal PM, his photographer and his pamphlet describing his version of The Australian Way, are now in Europe. Unfortunately, he has also brought his thickheadedness with him. Prepare for the scorn and derision about to be visited upon us.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/scott-morrison-says-australia-won-t-be-pressured-on-coal-deadline-ahead-of-cop26/a103afbe-03d7-4b71-8494-a75db82bd0c3

From: Maelor Himbury <maelor@melbpc.org.au>
Date: 31 October 2021 at 8:33:33 am AEDT
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Post of the Day

Our climate demands we change the world right now. The good news? We can

Rebecca Solnit

Glasgow has to be a turning point. There is no other option

 

On This Day

October 31

Reformation Day

Halloween

Samhain – Celticism

 

Ecological Observance

World Cities Day

 

Climate Change

UN chief warns climate talks could fail without renewed trust among world leaders

“There is a serious risk that Glasgow will not deliver,” UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said, on the eve of a weekend meeting of G20 heads of state in Rome.

 

‘It’s the protests which are giving me hope’: activists descend on Glasgow

Campaigners from around the world are uniting to disrupt the Cop26 conference and put pressure on political leaders

 

50 years, 25 Cops: the slow-motion movement to save the planet

How Guardian journalists reported on the long, twisting road to global action on the climate crisis

 

Don’t put climate activists on trial, CPS urged

Questions raised over purpose of prosecuting peaceful protesters after activists are found guilty of calling climate-change sceptics ‘liars’

 

Cop26 failure could mean mass migration and food shortages, says Boris Johnson

Ahead of G20 meeting, PM warns of ‘difficult geopolitical events’ echoing those that ended Roman empire

 

Cop26 will be whitest and most privileged ever, warn campaigners

Thousands from frontline communities in global south have been excluded, activists claim

 

Climate experts warn world leaders 1.5C is ‘real science’, not just talking point

Scientists say keeping temperature rises to 1.5C is vital physical threshold for planet that cannot be negotiated

 

Youth climate movement wants to kick polluters out of COP26

Activist Ayisha Siddiqa talks about the campaign to sideline fossil fuel companies, the lack of inclusion at COP26, and the power of young people.

 

Heatwaves like ‘the Blob’ could decrease role of ocean as carbon sink

Researchers have found the two-year heatwave known as ‘the Blob’ may have temporarily dampened the Pacific’s ‘biological pump,’ which shuttles carbon from the surface ocean to the deep sea where it can be stored for millennia.

 

Our climate demands we change the world right now. The good news? We can

Rebecca Solnit

Glasgow has to be a turning point. There is no other option

 

Cop26: the time for prevarication is over

Katharine Viner

Glasgow 2021 must be the moment when the promise of Paris 2015 becomes real – history will not forgive us otherwise

 

G20 must say goodbye to fossil fuel and recommit to Paris 1.5C goal

The Secret Negotiator

G20 countries are way off track on delivering on 1.5C. Acknowledging this would be a good start ahead of Cop26

 

Our best chance to stop global warming is approaching. Here’s what it means if it fails

Michael Slezak

On our current trajectory, we will heat the world by 1.5C in less than a decade, the United Nation’s climate change panel has found. And if we don’t act now, cooling the world will be increasingly hard.

 

National

‘Illusion’ of climate action by big emitters clouds outlook for COP26 talks

The COP26 conference in Glasgow has been billed as the last major chance to galvanise the collective effort needed to limit global warming to 1.5C, with scientists calling for emissions to be cut by nearly half by 2030 to achieve that.

 

Scott Morrison says Australia won’t be pressured on coal deadline ahead of COP26

As representatives from almost 200 countries gather in Scotland from Sunday to confront the threat posed by climate change, Australia’s position on its future use of coal remains unclear.

 

UK says Australia must do more to tackle climate change as G20 leaders gather

Britain wants Australia to commit more on tackling climate change, a spokesman for UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says, stepping up the pressure before the United Nations COP26 climate summit next week.

 

UK’s top climate adviser launches scathing attack on Australia on eve of Cop26

Lord Deben says there is ‘no indication’ Scott Morrison has a plan to deliver the net zero commitment ‘we’ve squeezed out of him’

 

Scott Morrison a canary in a coalmine as awkward encounters with French president loom at G20

The Australian prime minister had zero interest in heeding Emmanuel Macron’s call to phase out coal

 

Australia ‘placed a spotlight on itself’ for backing coal on eve of COP26

Fears grow that Glasgow talks may not succeed in driving sweeping action on “coal, cars, cash and trees”.

 

High cost of electric vehicles make Australians hesitant to buy

The high cost of an electric vehicle is the reason half of Australians remain hesitant in making the switch away from petrol or diesel cars, new polling reveals, with more than a third of drivers saying they’re not considering one as their next purchase.

 

Liberal senator tells CSIRO boss that net zero target will “destroy our plant life”

Queensland Liberal senator suggests to CSIRO boss that zero net targets could spell the end to all plant life on Earth. (Don’t worry, they probably won’t).

 

Affirming Australia’s net zero emissions by 2050 target

The Australian Government has communicated an updated and enhanced Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat.

 

Australia-Indonesia statement on Cooperation on Green Economy and Energy Transition

Indonesia and Australia acknowledge that reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a global challenge.

 

Mike Cannon-Brookes on the green energy futureEnergy Insiders podcast

Mike Cannon-Brookes discusses government policy failure, Sun Cable, the cost of capital, and whether the 1.5°C target can be met.

 

The government’s emission reduction plan doesn’t contain any new actions, or dollars

Michael Slezak

How could Australians move from being some of the most polluting global citizens, to effectively emitting nothing, in just 30 years? The federal government says it has a plan — but will it work?

 

From coal hero to net zero: How does a leader do it?

Annabel Crabb 

Scott Morrison’s climate ‘plan’ reveals a spectacular new model of political leadership in Australia — and our next election is going to look very different from the last

 

Australia has trashed the Paris agreement and exposed itself as the worst kind of climate hypocrite

Thom Woodroofe

The Morrison government has shown that it quite simply does not do what it says on the world stage

 

COP that! We’ll pay for PM to woo global investors to our green future

Parnell Palme McGuinness

Scott Morrison will be brandishing a tempting prospectus at the Glasgow climate summit. It will boast of taxpayer-supported projects to reduce carbon emissions, and that should be a lure for international investors.

 

Net zero will make us weak and poor [$]

Peta Credlin

The government’s position is Australia can achieve net zero with no new taxes, no new spending, and no new mandates. So, where does the money come from?

Too expensive, too slow: Even the baseload argument doesn’t work for nuclear

Mark Diesendorf

The campaign for nuclear power stations in Australia could slow the transition to renewable energy – yet nuclear is a technology whose time has passed.

 

The Plan!!

Dave Milner

Just a fortnight ago, Scott Morrison and Rupert Murdoch’s Australian tabloids, in uncanny synchronicity – like, literally on the same Monday morning – discovered the climate crisis. They discovered its realness and they discovered the will to pretend to care about it together. For Australia, depressingly, this counts as an improvement.

 

Honest Government Ad | COP26 Climate Summit

The Australien Government has made an ad for the COP26 UN Climate Summit, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

 

Government shows commitment to reducing waste by developing environmental policy on back of envelope – satire

Saying it didn’t want to use any more resources than strictly necessary, the Coalition has revealed its net zero environmental plan was developed using just the back of an old envelope and a half-used children’s crayon.

 

COP26 cop out – cartoon

Peter Broelman

 

Victoria

Indigenous farmers ‘doing the hard work’

A group of Indigenous farmers are using their traditional knowledge of fire and land management to improve farming techniques.

 

Tens of thousands of Victorians without power as wind damage clean-up continues

About 85,000 Victorians are still without power and could be waiting days for reconnection, as authorities warn wild weather could hit again next weekend.

 

New South Wales

Turf wars erupt over the use of synthetic surfaces in parks

Residents across Sydney are fighting local councils over the use of fake grass in public spaces, as Planning Minister Rob Stokes launches an inquiry into the use of synthetic surfaces.

 

‘Woollahra is full’: The battle to stop more homes in one of Sydney’s wealthiest areas

“Sewage and stormwater systems are literally imploding,” said councillor Luise Elsing, warning housing would be an election issue.

 

South Australia

Dolphin detectives and the controversial case on Port River [$]

A fourth – and highly contentious – dolphin sanctuary death was far from an ordinary event for the people tasked with protecting the creatures. Now their search for answers continues.

 

‘Did my duty’: Mayor won’t sell out parks for Marshall’s arena [$]

A war of words has erupted after the real estate lobby slammed Adelaide’s Lord Mayor for her pivotal role in rejecting the Premier’s flagship election pledge.

 

Leading the charge: Flinders to invest in batteries, electric cars [$]

Flinders is working to take its massive use of energy off grid, with plans to invest in batteries and electric cars. Meanwhile Sanjeev Gupta’s solar plans are back on track.

 

Tasmania

Underwater world a delight for divers [$]

Past fishing practices had left this marine environment nearly devoid of life. But now, 30 years after it was protected, “a whole new world” has emerged under the waves.

 

Northern Territory

‘Delightful’ find of tiny marsupial that sucks out prey’s brains, but is itself threatened

A group of rangers, researchers and schoolkids were thrilled to discover a threatened brush-tailed mulgara during a fauna survey at Uluru Kata-Tjuta National Park in the heart of Australia.

 

NT resources to play key role in transition to greener technology [$]

THE Northern Territory’s resource industry can play a key role in the transition to greener technologies, according to the head of the NT Geological Survey.

 

Sustainability

Warming climate will increase number of harmful algae blooms

A new study shows how changes in light conditions have a significant influence on the growth and impact of harmful algae blooms.

 

Crimes Against Nature: $2m whales, wartime Britain and the economics of saving the planet

Jeff Sparrow

We can respond to environmental crisis with good planning, Jeff Sparrow writes in an extract from his book

 

Hertz’s supercharged Tesla deal could haul us into the electric vehicle age

John Naughton

The firm’s agreement to buy 100,000 cars from Elon Musk’s company could change people’s minds about EVs for good

 

Climate change has blinded our focus to Earth’s ‘chemical tsunami’

Bob Douglas

Our current preoccupation with climate change and the COVID pandemic leaves our human world largely disengaged from a group of other threats to our future that have been the subject of a series of important books by Canberra science writer, Julian Cribb.

 

Nature Conservation

Meanders in river beds help the climate

River beds that can shift naturally are more efficient carbon sinks than straightened rivers

 



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