Scott Morrison’s half-hearted U-turn on electric vehicles – Pearls and Irritations
— Read on johnmenadue.com/scott-morrisons-half-hearted-u-turn-on-electric-vehicles/
Round and round and round he goes. Will he ever make any sense?
Michael Mann: climate action won’t require sacrifice – but delay will
— Read on www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/energy/2021/11/it-is-climate-inaction-that-will-lead-to-people-living-more-difficult-lives
Encouraging words from well respected person
Activists escalated protests against “greenwash” and the carbon market “scam” as UN envoy Mark Carney touted a private finance climate pledge
— Read on www.climatechangenews.com/2021/11/03/thunberg-v-carney-battle-net-zero-carbon-offsets-flares-cop26/
Onset more dishonesty about offsets?
www.theaustralian.com.au/author/bjorn-lomborg
The organ grinder on behalf of monkey PM Tiny Abbott, he’s here again, Scomo using his old words:
“(don’t waste install money now) invest in technology to get prices down”
Rest of world advocated install now, volume demand will pull prices down.
Scomo is proud of volume installed. But will he ever concede success despite, not because of policy/ ideology of LNP?
Report Tags Heavily Subsidized Drax Biomass Plant as U.K.’s Biggest CO2 Emitter – The Energy Mix
— Read on www.theenergymix.com/2021/10/24/report-tags-heavily-subsidized-drax-biomass-plant-as-u-ks-biggest-co2-emitter/
in recent Greta doco, in visit to forestry research, harvest trees and replant means 15 years as CO2 source, then 15 more years before reinstated as carbon sink.
Methane: A crucial opportunity in the climate fight | Environmental Defense Fund
— Read on www.edf.org/climate/methane-crucial-opportunity-climate-fight
about 60% more than the Environmental Protection Agency estimated at the time.
IEA reports 75% reduction possible for little to zero cost
The speech that Scott Morrison could give in Glasgow, holding a lump of coal in one hand, and a lump of silicon in the other.
— Read on reneweconomy.com.au/coal-and-silicon-the-speech-that-morrison-can-use-to-wow-his-glasgow-audience/
And still more: we are working to make cells that will last up to fifty years. Do the calcs and you will find you will get 350,000 kWh from your piece of silicon, or 140,000 times more than from your piece of coal.
Rail has lowest carbon footprint out of all major means of transport – it has only an eighth of the carbon footprint of air travel and a third that of road. 2021 has been declared the “European Year of Rail”, initiative designed to Rail on track for sustainable future
the sector and support EU’s climate objectives.
…encourage passengers and freight onto rail rather than roads. A case in point is France’s ban on domestic flights, in instances when alternative journey can be made by rail in two and a half hours or less.
Climate change: Planting new forests ‘can do more harm than good’ – BBC News
— Read on www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53138178.amp
obviously a perfect rort for big $ handouts to big hectare landholder mates but failing to capture expected carbon, from mono culture plantings of trees in low rainfall shale soils, low in phosphorus
The speech that Scott Morrison could give in Glasgow, holding a lump of coal in one hand, and a lump of silicon in the other.
— Read on reneweconomy.com.au/coal-and-silicon-the-speech-that-morrison-can-use-to-wow-his-glasgow-audience/amp/
Please read, a simple and convincing story. Good luck to our so called PM if he’s game to try to confuse again, to make this complex and incomprehensible, no chance.
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