Sean O'Shannessy

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Peace & justice for all living beings on Earth
Stop logging our native forests
#forests #climate #koalas #biodiversity #extinction
Media ProductionRadio - Video - Social
Producer & Presenter: Environmental as Anything (Radio Show & Podcast)https://environmentalasanything.podbean.com/
Campaigner - North East Forest Alliancehttps://www.nefa.org.au/fridays4forests-2022
Sean O'ShannessyJan 3, 2023
BellingenNSWDec 28, 2022

Australians spend far more than that ($4 billion) every year on food and medicines for their #pet #cats.

In the Northern Territory, an environment department spokesperson said last financial year, the flora and fauna division was allocated a budget of $2.1 million to work on threatened species #conservation.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-17/central-australia-faunal-extinction-crisis-mammals-epbc/10355152
#pets #extinction #wildlife #values

Central Australia may have seen the world's worst rate of mammal extinction — but it could get worse

Australians are spending far more money feeding their pet cats than fighting its faunal extinction crisis, which has already seen the arid heart of the nation undergo "arguably the greatest rate of mammal extinction in the world".

ABC News
Sean O'ShannessyDec 27, 2022
At #Woodfordia again at last
Sean O'ShannessyDec 25, 2022
Show threadJohn EnglartDec 23, 2022

2/2 We know what increases pandemic risk:
Land use change, agricultural expansion, and urbanization cause more than 30% of emerging disease events. Climate change and trade in wildlife, are also factors according to the @ipbes 2021 #pandemicreport.

Other researchers publishing in Lancet Planetary Health argue that The COVID-19 pandemic is intricately linked to biodiversity loss and ecosystem health.
#pandemic #pandemicrisk #biodiversityloss #climatechange
https://takvera.blogspot.com/2021/11/pandemic-ponderings-protect-nature-to.html

Pandemic ponderings: Protect nature to avoid future pandemics

Writings on climate change, sea level rise, ocean acidification, biodiversity loss, climate adaptation & protests from a Melbourne Citizen Journalist.

Sean O'ShannessyDec 25, 2022
Sabaheta Ramčilović-SuominenDec 23, 2022

Greenland's glaciers are melting 100 times faster than previously calculated, according to a new model that takes into account the unique interaction between ice and water at the island’s fjords. 

https://www.livescience.com/greenland-glacier-melt-model?s=09

Greenland's glaciers are melting 100 times faster than estimated

Scientists are getting a better handle on how fast Greenland's ice is flowing out to sea. Old models that used Antarctica as a baseline were way off the mark.

Live Science
Sean O'ShannessyDec 25, 2022
MongabayDec 23, 2022

"Prompted by exclusive reporting from Mongabay, the House of Representatives in The Netherlands’s Parliament has approved a motion that compels its government to stop paying subsidies to wood-pellet manufacturers found to be untruthful in their wood-harvesting practices."

#Biomass #Netherlands #ClimateChange #News #Environment #Subsidies #Forest #Deforestation #ClimatePolicy #Energy

https://news.mongabay.com/2022/12/the-netherlands-decides-to-stop-paying-subsidies-to-untruthful-biomass-firms/

The Netherlands to stop paying subsidies to ‘untruthful’ biomass firms

A Mongabay story featuring a whistleblower who debunked the green claims of Enviva — the world’s largest wood pellet maker — has prompted the Dutch to ban subsidies to biomass firms who make false sustainability claims.

Mongabay Environmental News
Sean O'ShannessyDec 25, 2022
Michael E. Mann Dec 23, 2022
"Yes, it's freezing cold. No, that doesn't mean climate change is a hoax" by David Knowles for #YahooNews: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasa-yes-its-freezing-cold-no-that-doesnt-mean-climate-change-is-a-hoax/ar-AA15BGB8
NASA: Yes, it's freezing cold. No, that doesn't mean climate change is a hoax.

NASA: Yes, it's freezing cold. No, that doesn't mean climate change is a hoax.

MSN
Sean O'ShannessyDec 25, 2022
John HolmesDec 24, 2022
‘Entirely inappropriate’: Alarm over Dandenongs National Park tree removal https://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/entirely-inappropriate-alarm-over-dandenongs-national-park-tree-removal-20221215-p5c6i1.html
‘Entirely inappropriate’: Alarm over Dandenongs National Park tree removal

Conservationists are concerned about state government plans to remove fallen and “hazardous” trees from the Dandenongs Ranges National Park.

The Age
Sean O'ShannessyDec 25, 2022
Matthew RimmerDec 23, 2022
Climate litigation - Clive Palmer’s coal company seeks to overturn ruling that Queensland mine will harm future generations https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/23/clive-palmers-coal-company-seeks-to-overturn-ruling-that-queensland-mine-will-harm-future-generations?CMP=share_btn_tw #auslaw #auspol #climate #youth #humanrights #IndigenousIP #coal #christmas
Clive Palmer’s coal company seeks to overturn ruling that Queensland mine will harm future generations

Waratah Coal lodged application to overturn recommendation that lease and approvals be refused

The Guardian
Sean O'ShannessyDec 24, 2022
Merry Xmas everyone
Enjoy
https://ciganyweaver.bandcamp.com/album/cig-ny-weaver-ep
Cigány Weaver EP, by Cigány Weaver

8 track album

Cigány Weaver
Sean O'ShannessyDec 23, 2022
Mikko TuomiDec 20, 2022

Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth’s #forests.

Earth’s forests face grave challenges in the #Anthropocene, including hotter droughts increasingly associated with widespread forest die-off events.

Frequency of the observed mortality-year climate conditions strongly increases nonlinearly under projected warming.

Forests are dying due to #climate change.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29289-2

Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth’s forests - Nature Communications

Tree mortality is increasing due to droughts and other climate change-related stressors, but isolating climate signals for tree mortality is challenging. Here, the authors assemble a geo-referenced global database that quantifies how drought and hotter climate drive tree mortality events.

Nature