Daily Links Dec 4
Labor’s 43% is heading in the right direction and with the push to increase it by a group of smart independent women replacing ‘new liberals’, there’s a glimmer on the Australian horizon. Many articles here are on the money.
Daily Links Dec 3
This does seem to be out of the deniers’ playbook, start with some data, extrapolate, exaggerate, multiply by the large number your first thought of and claim you have a result given by the ‘modelling’.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/02/climate-cost-study-authors-accuse-bjrn-lomborg-of-misinterpreting-results
Daily Links Dec 2
It turns out that when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow, you can still deliver almost totally fossil-fuel free energy supply, with a small fail-safe gas backup. Try that, Keith ‘Gas-led recovery’ Pitt, Angus ‘Fantastic’ Taylor, Matteo Canavani and chief fossil and marketer, the Pentecostal PM.https://reneweconomy.com.au/south-australia-grid-just-one-step-away-from-operating-with-wind-and-solar-only/
Daily Links Dec 1
We’ve been blessed with great science presenters, unfortunately not so many great science receivers. Carl Sagan, creator of the Voyager gold record, presenter of the series ‘Cosmos’ (with music by Vangelis) and author of ‘the pale blue dot’, was one my absolute heroes. He died too young in 1996 but back in the mid-80s was already warning about climate change, nailing the problem as being intergenerational and beyond the ken for short-term responders.https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/climate/this-1985-video-of-carl-sagan-warning-congress-about-climate-is-just-as-sobering-now/
Daily Links Nov 30
Post of the Day Calling climate change a ‘crisis’ doesn’t do what you think A study recently published in the journal Climatic Change is among the first to examine the …
Daily Links Nov 29
Post of the Day How much would it cost to reforest Australian farmland for carbon credits? Offsetting agricultural emissions through reforestation would cost a fair chunk of farm profits, new …
Daily Links Nov 28
Post of the Day Australia’s spy agency predicted the climate crisis 40 years ago – and fretted about coal exports In a taste of things to come, a secret Office …
Daily Links Nov 27
Post of the Day Australia’s Black Summer of fire was not normal – and we can prove it Garry Cook et al The Black Summer forest fires of 2019–2020 burned more …
Daily Links Nov 26
Post of the Day Australian climate activists battling increased repression and surveillance, new report says Climate protesters are being targeted by harsh penalties, inappropriate police powers and surveillance, according to …
Daily Links Nov 25
Post of the Day 5 big ideas: how Australia can tackle climate change while restoring nature, culture and communities Rachel Morgain et al Australia’s plan to reach net zero emissions by …