Australia spends billions planting trees – then wipes out carbon gains by bulldozing them

Australia true blue beaut total and permanent environmental destruction after Aboriginal people took such good care for 60,000 years.

TheGuardian

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Scott Morrison is good at shifting responsibility. But even God can’t help him now

Scott Morrison fiddles, religious freedom, cashless welfare and Newstart punishment, while world can’t believe still no actual policies.

Never mind, looks like less than 20 sitting days to Christmas rescue, praise the Jesus. Is he even slacker than Menzies?

TheGuardian

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Myth: Freeways relieve traffic congestion

Wasn’t this so convincingly illustrated on Utopia episode, even drawing attention to Jevons Paradox, from as far back as 1865, delusion that more Supply will satisfy Demand. How can bigger freeways not increase traffic congestion?

Public Transport Users Association (Victoria, Australia)

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Rise of renewables may see off oil firms decades earlier than they think

Poor old fossils.

TheGuardian

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Penguins in peril as winds change and heat rises

Not looking good. Any chance our government takes any share of cause of warming so far south? Or do are they saying that Prayer is the most effective solution?

Climate News Network

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The prime minister’s office accidentally sent out its talking points. We fact checked them

The prime minister’s office accidentally leaks party positions on range of topics. Unfortunately they’re a face plant when fact checked. Pity they only have impulsive not policies for ever more tax cuts and things as important as protection of religions.

And extravagance on Defence toys like Brisbane assembly of German 8 wheel vehicles, which might carry as many as 8 people, on a good day,, for price of $15B ÷ 211 units = $75Million per truck. Can LNP best manage Economy or what?

TheGuardian

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The Most Detailed Map of Auto Emissions in America

Now the biggest source of emissions and increases as we continue, here in Oz, to drive so much, in vehicles privately owned and bigger than necessary, eg 2,000kg to move 1.1 people average at 82.5kg. Of course we care but….

The New York Times

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Carbon Tax Plans: How They Compare and Why Oil Giants Support One of Them

In fact, the Yale-GMU survey found that Trump supporters favor a carbon dividend more strongly than any other political grouping, with 63% in favor.

InsideClimateNews

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Boris Johnson’s father joins Extinction Rebellion protest, shrugging off British PM Boris’s ‘uncooperative crusties’ tag

Poor old Boris, a loser again, surely somebody can give him career advice to entice him somewhere else, anywhere else, to save prolonging agony.

ABC News

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Is Angus Taylor on a one-man mission to stop wind and solar? |

Excellent story reviewing how ridiculous we look with Minister for Energy(and emission reductions) Angus Taylor. What a COALition obsessed but job.

RenewEconomy

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