cool cool cool
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 26 March 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link
"The federal government is pushing for expansions of coal mines to keep people in work, amid expectations that hundreds of thousands of people will lose their jobs due to the economic slump caused by COVID-19."
https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/coal-mine-expansion-even-more-important-20200324-p54dcx
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Friday, 27 March 2020 22:02 (four years ago) link
Their fucking answer for everything. How about employing them to install solar or mine any of the other things that are in the ground in Australia (Lithium, Nickel, Cobalt, Graphite ...)
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 27 March 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link
Due to the coronavirus, Parliament is not sitting until August.
Therefore, opposition MPs are not able to question the government government on, today, approving ten years of logging native forests in Victoria, or yesterday approving coal mining underneath the Greater Sydney reservoir, which supplies water for the most populous region on the continent.
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 05:26 (four years ago) link
Fantastic.Great move. Well done Angus.
Energy Minister @AngusTaylorMP struggling to explain why buying currently cheap oil to meet IEA strategic reserve guidelines (which we never met before) makes sense despite proposing to keep it in facilities inconveniently placed on the other side of the planet in the US.đ€Šââïž pic.twitter.com/HTXkWPkaoI— Anthony Pesec - staying safe at home! (@anthonypesec) April 22, 2020
― donald failson (sic), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 07:51 (three years ago) link
The Federal Government has succumbed to âwell organised corruption and captureâ by fossil fuel billionaires who are âa threat to lifeâ, using the cover of the COVID-19 crisis to push dangerous, uneconomic projects and strip environmental protections.
― Elon's musk (sic), Thursday, 7 May 2020 10:18 (three years ago) link
The dickheads are circling.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 7 May 2020 11:37 (three years ago) link
Not that the media is a big threat to fossil fuel in normal times, but they are so absorbed by the pandemic right now that every barrier to corruption is down.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 7 May 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
Which outlets do you think would normally be covering the above, that are distracted by the pandemic instead?
― Elon's musk (sic), Thursday, 7 May 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link
Scott Morrison has launched a high-paid National COVID-19 Co-ordination Commission, to advise the government on appropriate actions to take. It comprises:- Morrison's departmental secretary- the Minister for Fascism's departmental secretary- the head of the Finance Department- the Managing Director of a Hong Kong-owned company that bought large parts of Australia's electricity supply when they were privatised, and operates gas and coal stations in three of Australia's five states- the former CEO of Australia's national telecommunications agency, who oversaw it being privatised- the 73-year-old former owner of a trucking company, who is worth $880 million- one former elected member of Parliamentand is headed by a former mining magnate, who was in the news three weeks ago for the amount of insider trading he has done this year, buying up shares of a gas drilling and pipeling company of which he is deputy chairman.Here is a list of the doctors, epidemiologists, nurses, scientists and hospital administrators on the commission:â Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Thursday, March 26, 2020 6:00 AM (one month ago)
- Morrison's departmental secretary- the Minister for Fascism's departmental secretary- the head of the Finance Department- the Managing Director of a Hong Kong-owned company that bought large parts of Australia's electricity supply when they were privatised, and operates gas and coal stations in three of Australia's five states- the former CEO of Australia's national telecommunications agency, who oversaw it being privatised- the 73-year-old former owner of a trucking company, who is worth $880 million- one former elected member of Parliament
and is headed by a former mining magnate, who was in the news three weeks ago for the amount of insider trading he has done this year, buying up shares of a gas drilling and pipeling company of which he is deputy chairman.
Here is a list of the doctors, epidemiologists, nurses, scientists and hospital administrators on the commission:
â Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Thursday, March 26, 2020 6:00 AM (one month ago)
Good news, everybody! Turns out that the high-paid National COVID-19 Co-ordination Commission that is staffed almost entirely with fossil fuel millionaires or stooges and contains no doctors or scientists has determined that the best way to recover from COVID-19 is to sell and burn a fuckload more fossil fuels than we're already selling and burning!
― Elon's musk (sic), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 05:30 (three years ago) link
high-paid
The head of the committee, who is the director and shareholder of an oil & gas company in his day job, is being paid $500,000 for six months work, plus private jet travel.
https://www.themonthly.com.au/today/paddy-manning/2020/13/2020/1589348161/notice
The other commissioners are being paid only $364,000 on top of their own day jobs.
The processes of this taxpayer-funded commission are not open to the public.
― Bleeqwot (sic), Thursday, 14 May 2020 01:51 (three years ago) link
Report leaked.
Shocker: The report does not consider alternatives to gas, or mention climate change and the financial risk of investing in fossil fuel as emissions are cut
― Bleeqwot (sic), Thursday, 21 May 2020 10:11 (three years ago) link
Fucking Taylor was on RN this morning saying âtechnology not taxationâ whilst this was leaking.
I am livid.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 21 May 2020 10:22 (three years ago) link
March 5 2020: the tourism industry is told there will be no financial support to help them weather impact of the coronavirus, which is already three times larger than the impact of the bushfires.
wonder if there's been any further economic impact from the coronavirus since then. probably not, right?
anyway, if there had been, at least there's a solid roadmap for recovery:
Good news, everybody! Turns out that the high-paid National COVID-19 Co-ordination Commission that is staffed almost entirely with fossil fuel millionaires or stooges and contains no doctors or scientists has determined that the best way to recover from COVID-19 is to sell and burn a fuckload more fossil fuels than we're already selling and burning
that's a relief, now that we know how few new coal mines were approved during the first few months of the bushfires, when there was reason to be cautious. thank goodness the brakes can be taken off in the next quarter!
https://i.imgur.com/E4GHnHF.png
― bat ain't Thad (sic), Sunday, 12 July 2020 06:34 (three years ago) link
News Corp is not merely biased against Labor and in favour of the Liberals. This underestimates the international nature of the franchise. It is a series of multi-platform metastases that endanger minorities â sexual, racial and religious â all over the world.
â don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Thursday, January 9, 2020 9:31 PM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink
Phoah.
― locked in a death spiral of vindictive gatekeeping (viborg), Monday, 27 July 2020 22:55 (three years ago) link
Should be block quote, apologies. Sauce.
― locked in a death spiral of vindictive gatekeeping (viborg), Monday, 27 July 2020 22:57 (three years ago) link
100 climate scientists from 20 countries have returned from a sea journey concluding that we're seeing the final summers of ice in the Arctic.
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 05:04 (three years ago) link
The Arctic is rich in natural resources like fossil fuel and already under significant climate stress, warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet. The more the Arctic warms and melts, the more humans build industrial infrastructure, mine metals and produce oil and gasâemitting greenhouse gases that accelerate the warming and melting.
It would be interesting to conduct some psychological case studies of local residents of the area to see how they're coping with this. I suspect we might be able to find some of the same profiles in residents of Aus...
No mention of clathrates that I see though, which was some scientists were concerned about about ten years ago but I haven't seen it mentioned that much recently. Generally seems like thermokarst is a bigger concern, with the evidence clear to the eye at ground level.
― locked in a death spiral of vindictive gatekeeping (viborg), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 08:28 (three years ago) link
If you're wondering "Do they sleep?" ...I don't, I don't sleep. Much, at least. (Not just this keeping me up, but in general. Gotta admit after yesterday reading through this whole thread which is like some tragic farce, it was a bit much as I was winding down for the evening. Can't imagine what it was like to live through that.)
― locked in a death spiral of vindictive gatekeeping (viborg), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 08:32 (three years ago) link
I'm afraid that them moving past outright denial isn't necessarily any kind of progress on the issue
A question about climate change/global warming.
https://i.imgur.com/FdUfjRd.jpg
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 03:38 (three years ago) link
Update: we don't even need to sell gas to solve COVID recovery, the government should just give money directly to the fossil fuel companies.
'A presentation on the final report of the National COVID-19 Co-ordination Commission manufacturing taskforce, seen by The Age and The SMH, recommends "cutting red and green tape" to help the gas industry rapidly increase gas extraction and create up to 170,000 manufacturing jobs.'
The final report of the National COVID-19 Co-ordination Commissionâs manufacturing working group has called for a relaxation of gas industry regulations and calls for the Morrison government to consider more tax incentives for the construction of new projects.One of the recommendations of the working group is that the federal government should âunderwrite demandâ for gas, agreeing to purchase gas in a situation where the market is oversupplied. This from an industry lobby that has constantly argued that there is a supply shortfall.
One of the recommendations of the working group is that the federal government should âunderwrite demandâ for gas, agreeing to purchase gas in a situation where the market is oversupplied. This from an industry lobby that has constantly argued that there is a supply shortfall.
With gas companies recording a series of project delays and massive write-downs of the value of existing investments, which have already totalled almost $20 billion in Australia alone, Greenpeace Australia Pacific said that taxpayers shouldnât be left to foot the bill.âWhichever way you look at it, gas is an industry in decline, with billions of dollars in write-downs around the world due to the renewable energy boom. Wasting public money on the polluting industries of the past rather than the modern renewable technology of today is an abuse of public trust,â Greenpeace Australia Pacific campaigner Jonathan Moylan said.
âWhichever way you look at it, gas is an industry in decline, with billions of dollars in write-downs around the world due to the renewable energy boom. Wasting public money on the polluting industries of the past rather than the modern renewable technology of today is an abuse of public trust,â Greenpeace Australia Pacific campaigner Jonathan Moylan said.
Two months ago:The processes of this taxpayer-funded commission are not open to the public.
Yesterday:
On Monday, prime minister Scott Morrison announced that he was reconstituting the National Covid Coordination Commission as a body that reports directly to the federal cabinet.âThe COVID Commission will work within government. It wonât be an external agency. It will work within government and can form part of the Cabinet deliberative processes, which is an important innovation,â Morrison said.The change is likely to further reduce the transparency and public visibility of what the Commission is advising government, as cabinet deliberations are not released to the public and are generally exempt from freedom of information laws.
âThe COVID Commission will work within government. It wonât be an external agency. It will work within government and can form part of the Cabinet deliberative processes, which is an important innovation,â Morrison said.
The change is likely to further reduce the transparency and public visibility of what the Commission is advising government, as cabinet deliberations are not released to the public and are generally exempt from freedom of information laws.
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 06:13 (three years ago) link
BP spilled 95 tonnes of crude oil off the Shetland Isles, due to not having completed writing a "safety procedures" document when setting up a new well, and therefore not having safety procedures to follow.
After four years of investigation, the local court has concluded that this was bad, and fined them ÂŁ7,000.
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 22:15 (three years ago) link
Some steak dinners being had by BP lawyers tonight I guess
Fucking shameless
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 22:42 (three years ago) link
Oh sorry, I misread that - they spilled 7 tonnes of crude oil and were fined ÂŁ95,000.
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Thursday, 30 July 2020 12:01 (three years ago) link
^ not true, but it's great that even that would be insanely fucked
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Thursday, 30 July 2020 12:02 (three years ago) link
Two months ago:The processes of this taxpayer-funded commission are not open to the public.Yesterday: On Monday, prime minister Scott Morrison announced that he was reconstituting the National Covid Coordination Commission as a body that reports directly to the federal cabinet.... The change is likely to further reduce the transparency and public visibility of what the Commission is advising government, as cabinet deliberations are not released to the public and are generally exempt from freedom of information laws.
On Monday, prime minister Scott Morrison announced that he was reconstituting the National Covid Coordination Commission as a body that reports directly to the federal cabinet.
...
Today, in response to freedom of information requests:
"The prime ministerâs department refused to publicly release 1,100 documents linked to the Covid-19 commissionâs discussion of gas projects and 690 documents about potential conflicts of interest, while also redacting its meeting minutes on economic and national security grounds."
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Thursday, 30 July 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/8/12/21361498/climate-change-air-pollution-us-india-china-deaths
The evidence is now clear enough that it can be stated unequivocally: It would be worth freeing ourselves from fossil fuels even if global warming didnât exist. Especially now that clean energy has gotten so cheap, the air quality benefits alone are enough to pay for the energy transition....Shindellâs testimony reveals that the effects of air pollution are roughly twice as bad as previously estimated. That is a bombshell â in a sane world, it would be front-page news across the country.âThe air quality scientific community has hypothesized this for at least a decade, but research advances have let us quantify and confirm this notion, over and over,â says Rebecca Saari, an air quality expert who teaches in civil and environmental engineering at the University of Waterloo. âThe air quality âco-benefitsâ are generally so valuable that they exceed the cost of climate action, often many times over.â
Shindellâs testimony reveals that the effects of air pollution are roughly twice as bad as previously estimated. That is a bombshell â in a sane world, it would be front-page news across the country.
âThe air quality scientific community has hypothesized this for at least a decade, but research advances have let us quantify and confirm this notion, over and over,â says Rebecca Saari, an air quality expert who teaches in civil and environmental engineering at the University of Waterloo. âThe air quality âco-benefitsâ are generally so valuable that they exceed the cost of climate action, often many times over.â
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Thursday, 13 August 2020 04:58 (three years ago) link
thank you for that link, sic
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 13 August 2020 08:27 (three years ago) link
The Hammersmith Bridge in London has been closed due to climate change: increased heat has exacerbated a crack to the point of emergency.
A tweet thread from climate futurist Alex Steffen on the Brittleness Bubble:
The Brittleness Bubble is far, far bigger than we're acknowledging.A staggering percentage of the world's critical infrastructure is now entering a world where climate conditions routinely exceed the tolerances for which that infrastructure was designed. https://t.co/chIOcoZ4Gw— Alex Steffen (@AlexSteffen) August 13, 2020
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Friday, 14 August 2020 08:50 (three years ago) link
TBF even if it is the canary in the coalmine the Hammersmith bridge has always been a shit bridge.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Friday, 14 August 2020 09:56 (three years ago) link
It looks so nice though!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 14 August 2020 09:59 (three years ago) link
Itâs been falling down and in an almost constant state of repair since they built it.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Friday, 14 August 2020 10:07 (three years ago) link
it does seem to be closed more than it's open
if you walk across it you can see the individual wooden planks that are the base of the road
https://www.reelstreets.com/wp-content/uploads/Films/repulsion/re022.jpg
― koogs, Friday, 14 August 2020 14:08 (three years ago) link
(http://movie-tourist.blogspot.com/2012/07/repulsion-1965.html)
― koogs, Friday, 14 August 2020 14:09 (three years ago) link
Great news, everyone! We're way ahead of schedule
Apparently this event was modeled as the *worst case scenario* in 2050 and it is happening right now. This is real sublime terror, this is an abyss, I don't know what this means. https://t.co/PgI1TvrNqv— blue lives splatter đ (@postcyborg) August 16, 2020
― poparse's eye (sic), Sunday, 16 August 2020 10:21 (three years ago) link
Scientists aren't holding back on the science in our papers. Why would we? (IPCC summaries are another matter.) But in public it's "Here are some graphs" and the language is constrained. In private over beers it's "We're fucked."— Peter Kalmus is the People's Climate Scientist (@ClimateHuman) August 8, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 16 August 2020 10:23 (three years ago) link
The last 12.000 years. pic.twitter.com/5KAnqmO2Tv— Alexander Radtke (@alxrdk) August 16, 2020
― poparse's eye (sic), Monday, 17 August 2020 00:55 (three years ago) link
*sigh*
― Isinglass Ponys (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 August 2020 01:18 (three years ago) link
Fuck yeah. Fuck yeah, we did it!!!
The highest temperature ever reliably recorded was reached today, with Death Valley in California hitting 130°F (54.4444°C). In July 2018, the Valley's average temperature of 108.1 degrees represented the hottest month ever measured on the planet.
― poparse's eye (sic), Monday, 17 August 2020 09:04 (three years ago) link
"The Trump administration on Monday authorized a sweeping plan to sell drilling rights and spur oil development in Alaskaâs rugged Arctic refuge, setting up a possible auction by the end of 2020 and a political clash if the president loses the November election."
― healthy butts on perfect cocaine (sic), Monday, 17 August 2020 21:10 (three years ago) link
average temperature of 108.1 degrees
in case it wasn't obvious an average temperature includes both high and low temps, not just high temps.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Monday, 17 August 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
Studies in the last decade have suggested that global warming is exacerbating the effects of El Niño and La Niña events.
Today the Bureau of Meterology announced Australia is facing three-times the normal threat level of deadly rain and cyclones to end 2020.
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 21:21 (three years ago) link
VOTE DADDY / MOMMY 2020
https://earther.gizmodo.com/democrats-quietly-cut-opposition-to-fossil-fuel-subsidi-1844768172
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 17:28 (three years ago) link
There are at least 367 wildfires active across California today.
Since the state relies on slave labour for firefighters, one single COVID-19 outbreak at a Lassen Country prison means that only 30 of California's 77 wildfire crews (17 prisoners per team) are available.
Still, nice to know you have options of what hideous lung damage you can endure for $2 an hour pay (plus $1 while actively in a fire).
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 21:58 (three years ago) link
Time to place your bets! Will the rain put out, or will the cyclones spread, the bushfires? 702 fires have been fought in Australia's third-smallest state since July 1st, and the latest is so large that the official fire season is being brought up to start September 1, the first day of spring.
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Thursday, 20 August 2020 05:08 (three years ago) link
The Greenland ice sheet lost one million tonnes per minute in 2019.
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Thursday, 20 August 2020 21:25 (three years ago) link
As of yesterday, two of the fires in California ranked as the seventh- and tenth-worst in the state's history.
By sun-up today, those two ranked second and fourth.
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Saturday, 22 August 2020 21:56 (three years ago) link
VOTE DADDY / MOMMY 2020https://earther.gizmodo.com/democrats-quietly-cut-opposition-to-fossil-fuel-subsidi-1844768172
Even before the primaries, the Sunrise Movement rated Biden an F-
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Monday, 24 August 2020 18:41 (three years ago) link
on "preserving a livable planet" -related policies
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/05/sanders-scores-highest-mark-sunrise-movements-climate-report-card-while-biden-told#
good news, guys! California is to ban fracking and to nationalise the for-profit company that just emerged from bankruptcy after being held responsible for the 2017-18 wildfires
California fires in 2019:- 4,927 fires- 118k acres burned.California fires in 2020 (so far):- 7,606 fires- 2.3 million acres burned.CLIMATE. CHANGE. IS. REAL.— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) September 8, 2020
wait no
the governor will do a second, firm tweet though
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Thursday, 10 September 2020 05:41 (three years ago) link