The Victorian News"Victory ... " (Moir, 1/10/25)
#ausnews, #vicnews, #moir #coalition, #liberal, #nationals #Advance #fossilfules
Manly BlogWhy have trees, when you can have $3.3 million shade structure?
"The NT government's $3.3 million Darwin shade structure built in 2018 is now reducing temperatures by just 0.6 degrees Celsius, new data shows, with tropical vines still failing to cover most of its frame."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-10/cavenagh-street-darwin-shade-structure-cooling-performance/103533536
#trees #FossilFules #ExtremeHeat #UrbanHeatIsland #UHI #failure
Cooling performance of NT government's Darwin shade structure worsening as maintenance costs soar
The $3.3 million Darwin shade structure built in 2018 continues to sizzle in the sun without cover from its slow-growing vines. Through a Freedom of Information request, the ABC has obtained new temperature data from underneath the NT government project.
BellingenNSWEU Officials fear secret courts will block climate action and divert billions into coffers of fossil fuel investors
“The energy charter treaty strikes again. This newest lawsuit is yet more proof that the ECT is blocking a just and affordable energy transition."
“We need treaties that serve our people and climate, not the fossil fuel industry. I am personally convinced that we should establish a unified stance on a collective and coordinated European withdrawal. It’s time to take the necessary and legally sound steps for the climate. It’s time to walk away from the ECT.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/20/eu-germany-and-denmark-sued-by-oil-firm-over-windfall-tax
#FossilFules #ECT #EU #ClimateAction
Burning fossil fuels " left the wet tropics “at a real risk of losing the very things it was made a world heritage area to protect”.
"Queensland’s wet tropics see 25% rise in threatened species in three years as climate change bites. The number of listed threatened species in Australia’s world heritage northern rainforests has increased by 25% since 2020, as ecologists say they are now clearly observing the long-predicted impacts of global heating."
Wet Tropics of Queensland
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/486/
“We also found the (native) bees (Tetragonula hockingsi) had diminished tolerance of heat stress after non-lethal exposure to the insecticides. Even bees exposed to miniscule amounts of insecticide, certainly not enough to kill them, were more susceptible to the effects of heat.The combination of heat stress and insecticide exposure may put this stingless bee at increased risk of decline."
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/northern-bees-at-risk-from-insecticide
#FossilFules #insecticides #heatwaves #droughts #bushfires #rainforest #WetTropics #biodiversity #ClimateExtremes #WorldHeritage
"Governments are literally doubling down on fossil fuel production — that spells double trouble for people and planet....Fossil fuel industry to expand for decades despite global carbon pledges, UN report finds. Governments around the world, including Australia's, are planning to expand the fossil fuel industry to about twice what would be consistent with their pledge to try to stop warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius, a United Nations report has found.
"The disconnect between governments' fossil fuel production plans and their climate pledges is also apparent across all three fuels (coal, oil and gas)."
The world’s fossil fuel producers are planning expansions that would blow the planet’s carbon budget twice over, a UN report has found. Experts called the plans “insanity” which “throw humanity’s future into question”.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/08/insanity-petrostates-planning-huge-expansion-of-fossil-fuels-says-un-report
#FossilFules #ClimateActionNow #ParisAgreementClimateAgreement #Australia
Climate Council oceans report says seas are warming faster, calls for end to fossil fuel projects
"Scientists say new fossil fuel projects need to stop and environmental laws need updating. Right now, our national environmental law, which is meant to protect the Great Barrier Reef and all these other incredible wonders that we rely on, it doesn't even consider climate change and the impact of new coal and gas developments on our climate and the damage that causes."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-08/climate-council-releases-code-blue-oceans-in-crisis-report/103075272
#Australia #FossilFules #reef #ocean #laws #TheGreatBarrierReef #NativeForests #biodiversity
Emeritus Prof Christopher MayThe #IPPR rightly follows Marianna Mazzucato & suggests that UK Govt. needs to invest directly in #greentehcnology;
as I've said before this make perfect sense; not only would it help accelerate the #greentransition, it would also pump-prime the UK's current lamentable #investment environment for #manufacturers...
Its a policy that the Labour Party should get behind.... its certainly a better use of #taxpayers money than subsidising #fossilfules (see earlier post)
David B Ⓥ 🥕You couldn’t make this stuff up. 😤 Nero Sunak fiddles as the world burns. 🌎🔥
“Forty percent of the new licences for oil and gas drilling in the North Sea announced this week are within marine protected areas, with the potential to cause devastation to wildlife and habitats that are vital to ocean health, campaigners say. “
https://uk.oceana.org/press-releases/new-oil-and-gas-licences-threaten-protected-ocean-habitats/
New oil and gas licences threaten protected ocean habitats
Forty percent of the new licences for oil and gas drilling in the North Sea announced this week are within marine protected areas, with the potential to cause devastation to wildlife and habitats that are vital to ocean health, campaigners say. A group – convened by the NGO Oceana and including a range of concerned ... Read more