groundswell bass coast climate change renewable energy

https://thinkprogress.org/supreme-court-issues-crushing-blow-to-exxon-in-major-climate-case-legal-experts-say-ae18891e3625/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tp-letters

Exxon must release all materials relating to how much they have really known about their effects on climate change. Huge progress.

https://thinkprogress.org/supreme-court-issues-crushing-blow-to-exxon-in-major-climate-case-legal-experts-say-ae18891e3625/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tp-letters

Text or video by Rolling Stone magazine, analysing recent past in Florida, rationalising damage cost of sea level rise and storm surge at, average, for elevated or low lying, $4 to 5 per square foot per year (!) compound reduction to selling price for residential property. So 25 squares drops in value $10 to 12,000 per year.

https://climatecrocks.com/2019/01/09/study-sea-level-starting-to-bite-coastal-real-estate/

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-46749022?utm_campaign=Carbon%20Brief%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

Recent incidents and accelerating trends, subsiding buildings, pipelines and railways, mating permafrost causes release of methane, nearly 30 times worse than carbon dioxide in 30 year time frame.

https://mailchi.mp/climatenewsnetwork/permafrost-thaw-unsettles-the-arctic?e=81a8983ef7

https://www.apnews.com/38cd90b721934af185b0cfdb99cdb985?fbclid=IwAR2KG8frtF_bSFEVe9mNebQyd-Of53XvBbHi6wS-iy4Jy7iB4dGZjqO7tSA

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/dec/27/australias-extreme-heatwave-spans-five-states-with-high-of-49c-forecast/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/20/risks-of-domino-effect-of-tipping-points-greater-than-thought-study-says

+++At recent COP24 in Poland, many scores for responsible climate action(s) by Australia were appallingly low. Queensland receives more revenue from motor vehicle taxes than royalties from coal, an industry so highly automated that even employment needs to be hugely overstated.

Australia is hopelessly addicted to revenue from coal, small margin royalties but huge volumes. Blind Freddy can see that Climate Emergency will soon force both coal and LNG exports to be abandoned. The bigger we make them, the harder we fall, cold turkey, no rehab clinic, no soft landing economy. Time to quit so many dependencies on foreign markets so we can develop our own resilience so we can look after ourselves.+++

Please read per below and make your submittal before 1 Feb 2019

https://www.edoqld.org.au/help_stop_coal_mining_in_the_galilee_basin

Surely this bloke needs to do the right thing, sooner later? How about right now?