Narendra Modi, with his mate Gautam Adani chewing his ear, is increasing coal use in India, so there’s not much hope for real action to come from COP 27. Unfortunately, with our own behaviour on opening up gas fields, we are in no position to demand the ‘phase out’ that is required.https://apnews.com/article/science-business-india-united-nations-climate-and-environment-0db74fbab76933591b4a7d6e241a208d
Feral (and unrestrained pet) cats are eating their way through our native species and feral horses are causing damage to alpine and arid environments alike. There is a big task …
Is Dutton, the Big Sebago, being deliberately misleading, is he just ignorant or are there lashings of both in his comments on batteries? And then there’s the predictable recourse to …
The Big Sebago has been asleep these last 10 or so years, the green energy conversation has not entered his consciousness. Governments need good Oppositions to keep them grounded, at least we have the Teals.https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/2022/10/27/dutton-energy-cost-of-living/
Global energy crisis? How about global climate change crisis? A concerted global effort on renewables, in a fashion similar to JFK’s let’s go to the moon by the end of the decade, could respond to both. Not when the fossil fools have a chokehold on energy production and sale though.
This is a clear statement that Australia is out of the naughty corner and is a climate-pariah no more, but the Climate Change Authority needs a good pull-through to get rid of the fossil fools and lobbyists lurking within.https://reneweconomy.com.au/labor-spends-big-to-restore-defenestrated-climate-authority-and-international-diplomacy/
Here’s yet another indicator that the days of dominance for the fossil fools are diminishing in number.https://reneweconomy.com.au/graph-of-the-day-wind-energy-delivers-three-quarters-of-victorias-demand-for-first-time/
It’s a few years since our team, the Common Loudmouths, competed in the annual Twitchathon. We won in the Champagne section (8 hours, stop for morning/afternoon tea, lunch break) a …
Post of the Day Ranger numbers and protected area workforce must increase fivefold to effectively safeguard 30% of the planet’s wild lands by 2030 Ahead of the global meeting of …
When the market fails, government steps in. In this case, the market failure originated from a government failure, a Kennett Government failure (private sector paid too much, meaningful conditions weren’t imposed and goodness knows what else was in the sale contract). The Andrews government, which is longer-lived than the Kennett Government, is bringing back an SEC. Of course we are talking about the People’s Republic of Victoria, the Massachusetts of Australia, and a great place to live.https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/22/daniel-andrews-plans-to-revive-the-state-electricity-commission-what-will-it-mean-for-victorias-power