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A must read alarming story

Daily Mercury

Indeed, what will it take? Would the hard right back down if his excellency Archbishop Pell changed his mind?

TheGuardian

Oceans will warm up to the point where the Hydrated Methane will erupt out of the water and catch fire.

At the rate of deforestation there will be very few trees to have a forest fire as there will only be “ribbons of green” running down both sides of the road for the wild animals to wander along in amongst the empty beer bottles and plastic drink bottles along the the huge acres of cereals all for export.

Open cut coal mines pockmarking the land…

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Sounds like perfect alternative to French submarine, not nuclear, not hybrid diesel but coal fired submarine. Can we get The Fixer Christopher Pyne back? Who else could Fix coal fired sub!

EconomicTimesIndia

The world has never seen a threat to human rights of this scope,” she told the UN human rights council in Geneva.

“The economies of all nations, the institutional, political, social and cultural fabric of every state, and the rights of all your people, and future generations, will be impacted” by climate change, she warned.

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James Lovelock has been warning that, because of our complacencu, we will all see devastation and dysfunction worse than consequences of war.

Food price hikes likely after dry Murray Darling Basin forecast

ABCnews

…home batteries, expected to total in the region of 150,000 units by 2024. At around 10kWh per unit (a generous estimate), that equates to around 1.5 gigawatt hours of storage.

Forecasts for EVs, on the other hand, predict around 100,000 vehicles a year being bought by 2024 (possibly more), and with an average battery size of at least 40kWh, that will bring in some 4GWh of storage each year.

RenewEconomy

On hot days, conventional air exchange aircon is not so efficient, very hungry over 45degC. So here’s another kind of storage, chilled water cool bank.

onestepoffthegrid

How good is this?

theguardian

Nothing to add here, please read original.

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The European Union will push Australia to clean up its petrol standards – which currently allow for dirtier fuel than India and China – as part of negotiations on a new free trade agreement...

.. before the May election the government quietly postponed fuel standard improvements for Australian refiners until 1 July 2027, in line with the petroleum industry’s demand...
Australia ranks 66th in the world for its fuel quality, the lowest of all developed countries, with an allowable sulphur content up to 15 higher than countries like China.

TheGuardian