The Beetaloo gas field is a climate bomb
How did CSIRO modelling make it look otherwise?

"If it is allowed to proceed, this single project could undo all of our efforts to cut emissions. Beetaloo and Middle Arm are a climate bomb. They will produce vast volumes of emissions which cannot be offset. The atmosphere doesn’t respond to clever accounting, overly optimistic projections and reliance on offsets – only on how many tonnes of emissions end up there."

"The International Energy Agency has shown we have to slash demand for fossil fuels 25% by 2030 and 80% by 2050 to keep heating under 1.5°C and limit the worst effects of climate change." >

https://theconversation.com/the-beetaloo-gas-field-is-a-climate-bomb-how-did-csiro-modelling-make-it-look-otherwise-215711
#FossilFuels #Australia #ExtremeHeatwaves #bushfires #Darwin #MiddleArm #Beetaloo #NT #offsets #CleverAccounting #ClimateEmergency

Headline quote says that the Australian #ALP government is "missing half the equation" when it comes to taking action to mitigate climate disruption.

While there is federal support for expanding cleaner forms of energy, the Australian government continues to approve new coal and gas projects, and even create new forms of indirect #DirtyEnergySubsidies (such as federal funding for the #MiddleArm industrial hub in #Darwin, representing a substantial gift to the #FossilGas industry). Hence, they are "missing half the equation".

But I would argue that they are missing *most* of the equation, because stopping the increase of climate-disrupting greenhouse gases from being emitted by winding down the #DirtyEnergy industry as rapidly and humanely as possible is the single biggest aspect of #ClimateAction. Doing so will require replacement forms of energy (and all kinds of shifts in how energy is used), yes, but this is actually a secondary goal required to achieve the main one: an end to humanity's dependence on dirty energy ASAP.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230921073629/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/19/missing-half-the-equation-scientists-criticise-australia-over-approach-to-fossil-fuels

#Auspol #ClimateStrategy #ClimatePolicy #DirtyEnergyDirtyPolitics #ALPClimatePolicy #ClimateCommunication

Razing Darwin bush
Australia has the worst mammal extinction rate of any country in the world.

"The fringes of Darwin contain some of Northern Australia's most biodiverse habitat for mammals...What we've been seeing for at least 40 years is that native mammals have been declining seriously from Queensland through to Western Australia...If we lose the fragments of habitat in the Greater Darwin area, we lose those species"

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-22/nt-darwin-developments-risk-extinction-lee-point-middle-arm/102751470
#EnvironmentalManagement #Australia #NT #MiddleArm #Darwin Harbour #extinction makers #biodiversity #wipeout

Adam Morton's article on Middlearm development at Darwin and the $1.5 billion from the Federal Government which is in essence a large subsidy for gas expansion, in the development of the Beetaloo basin fracking, pipeline and LNG terminal for export.

The Australian government admits its funding is supporting the gas industry. That’s politically risky

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/10/the-australian-government-admits-its-funding-is-supporting-the-gas-industry-thats-politically-risky

#FossilFuels #Australia #FossilGas #BeetalooBasin #ClimateCrisis #Middlearm #Fracking

Documents detail key players behind vast Australian fossil fuel expansion
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/19/revealed-documents-detail-key-players-behind-vast-australian-fossil-fuel-expansion
#FossilFuel #Expansion #MiddleArm #NT #TopEndCarbonBomb

Swiss referendum: Majority approve #netzero #climate
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-to-decide-on-net-zero-climate-law/48593158

Almost 60% of Swiss voters have backed plans to severely cut emissions by 2050 despite opposition from the right-wing Swiss People's Party.

In a second vote, 78.5% supported a minimum tax of 15% for multinational firms.
https://www.dw.com/en/switzerland-backs-net-zero-climate-law-in-referendum/a-65953012
#TNC #tax #laws