Australia could aim for 700 per cent renewables, ARENA boss

Mind bogglingly rational proposal, please read:

RenewEconomy

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We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN

A comprehensive review. Finale is that 1.5degC warming was never considered until lobby by small island states in Paris. It doesn’t mention important help given by Australia, in return for small island states voting for carryover credits from Kyoto 1, the shonky accounting to allow for less reduction in our emissions.

TheGuardian

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Climate change means geoengineering under pressure to keep our CO2 budgets under control

These options need to be tested, IMMEDIATELY, if not sooner. Our representatives in this democracy need a boot up the kyber, to make them do what’s expected of them, before it’s too late.

ABC News

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When Tax Accountants Lobby for Sustainability

Possible sign of hope, how extraordinary that bean counters should advocate for sustainability? There was a fashion for triple bottom line but how many multiples of bottom line is this?

The Globalist

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America’s Great Climate Exodus Is Starting in the Florida Keys

Florida, the state with the most people and real estate at risk, is just starting to buy homes, wrecked or not, and bulldoze them to clear a path for swelling seas before whole neighborhoods get wiped off the map.

taxpayer buyouts for homeowners in flood-prone areas from Staten Island, New York, to Houston, New Orleans and Florida

bloomberg

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For First Time Ever, Scientists Identify…How Many Trees to Plant and Where to Plant Them to Stop Climate Crisis

But we must act quickly, as new forests will take decades to mature and achieve their full potential as a source of natural carbon storage.”

And how about rules not monoculture plantation type tree farming.

goodnewsnetwork

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Hillsong threatens Australian media over Brian Houston coverage

With skeletons in the cupboard like story below, no wonder ScoMo is so adamant that he’s right and the rest of us are idiots(please excuse me borrowing Amanda Van Stone’s favourite resolution).

TheNewDaily

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Brown: Adani leeching off Gandhi’s legacy

Mr Adani now pitches that he’s seriously charitable, just like Ghandi, such a kind gesture(not) for Ghandi’s birthday tomorrow.

news.com

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Sustainability expert Michael Mobbs: I’m leaving the city to prep for the apocalypse

Here’s a bloke who’s been right with many predictions. But take a deep breath before you read what he sees in the immediate future

TheGuardian

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The freaking future: First impressions of our new Tesla Model 3

If you think you’ve read the ultimate glowing report on a previous occasion, prepare yourself, this is even better.

The Driven

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