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Despite prospects looking so ordinary, for coal both in world and Indian energy markets, Mr Adani blisters on with Carmichael mine.

Bloomberg

“With planned coal and gas expansions, Australia could account for up to 17 per cent of global emissions by 2030, with Australian coal responsible for 12 per cent of global emissions by then.”

SBS

Neither can Australia. Except Murdoch media drags so much attention to such trivial topics as religious freedom. Or even proposal that Australia will actually be defensible if only we adopt nuclear weapons.

Common Dreams Views

In case you didn’t get around to a quick browse and inspiration for the same in Australia.

LibraryOfCongress

Finland is the only EU country where homelessness is falling. Its secret? Giving people homes as soon as they need them – unconditionally

TheGuardian

Energy Australia, owned by Hong Kong, fiddles with extracting more power and extending life of Mt Piper until 2042, no condideration of reducing emissions.

AFR

Short term sensitivity is 2-4.5 C, but long term is more like 10C. The crime of IPCC and other modelling outfits is that they are aware of this difference between short and long term, but still use the short term value even when they are doing hand-waving studies of what is going to happen over the next century or two.”

But when it comes to making accurate predictions, maybe it’s no longer important.Perhaps the lesson here is just that it’s worse than we think and worse than we want and—we must consider this possibility—worse than we can fix.

So then our challenge is to accept that and to take responsible action.

drgnewsservice

In the state of Texas there is so much wind electricity the new rate plans make electricity totally free from 9pm to 6am the next morning.

TheGuardian

Reducing your own consumption always needs to be front and centre. A good read here:

ClimateChangeNews