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Here’s the latest by David Spratt, recommended reading, highly convincing text and graphics. While many people find it difficult to understand the need for “zero carbon emissions”, here’s a comprehensive review of what we need to do, before it’s too late. Unless large scale industrial strength policy changes are made, it looks like we already need “negative carbon emissions” which means zero carbon energy to extract previous emissions from atmosphere and ocean. Also, right now, it’s worse than you think, because pollution particles in upper atmosphere, are shading the planet from incoming heat, “global dimming”, which means warming problem will be worse, when we stop polluting. Find out and understand how much you’re at risk from hopelessly inadequate climate change policies, ignored, as much as possible, in frenzy of electioneering.

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Extremes of heat deprive fish of the oxygen they need to survive near ocean surface.
Image: Naren Gunasekera via Flickr

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Buildings consume 39 per cent of all energy in the economy, more than industry (33%) and transportation (28%). Residential buildings consume 21 per cent while commercial buildings consume 18%. And in both residential and commercial buildings, heating and air conditioning are the single biggest sources of energy consumption at 39% and 32% respectively. “An outrageous amount of energy is used to heat and cool buildings, shopping centres, hotels, office buildings, your house,” he said. “And it’s not just for a couple of months, but for eight months of the year.” By shifting to a “19 to 25 world” — no higher that 19 degrees in winter, and no lower than 25 degrees in summer — Australian businesses could save $100 million and 300,000 tonnes of carbon every year.

>more> News.com.au

Here’s how to conserve a forest: soak up carbon from the atmosphere and keep the climate cool: make sure your forest is rich in animal and bird species; make sure it remains a natural mix of saplings, mature trees, shrubs and creepers; and remember to take care of the forest giants. In other words, leave it to Nature…report in Nature Communications that large animals play a key role in conserving tropical forests and mitigating climate change – because these are the creatures that spread seeds of largest trees that store most carbon…not a new finding, but extension of other research into importance of seed-eaters and potential hazard to forests presented by over-hunting…<in other words clear felling and forest farming don’t deliver equivalent CO2 absorption by old growth forest and much more prone to fire>

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