Offshore wind farm projects in the pipeline to accelerate new renewable energy sector – ABC News
— Read on amp.abc.net.au/article/100446630
Australia lucky or unlucky country? As offshore wind is taking off around the world, we obviously won’t be at the front of the queue for early delivery.
9 September, 2021 − Brazil’s great rainforest is a reservoir of global richness. Its government has reduced that wealth and burned a resource.
— Read on climatenewsnetwork.net/amazon-fires-are-rising-threat-to-brazils-great-rainforest/
7 September, 2021 − Extreme sea levels are inevitable. Researchers now know more about their scale. Prepare for high tides almost every year.
— Read on climatenewsnetwork.net/extreme-sea-levels-could-soon-become-annual-events/
Still not erring on the side of caution, Aussie, Aussie, Gurgle…
Angus Taylor’s claims of a $1.3 billion saving from a capacity market for fossil fuel generators are based on a model that doesn’t exist.
— Read on reneweconomy.com.au/the-dubious-modelling-behind-energy-security-boards-capacity-market-proposal/amp/
How low can they go and still get away with it?
“September 20, Energy Ministers are being asked to give the ESB the go-ahead on implementing a capacity payment. This is without either the ESB or Minister Taylor providing even a rough quantification on how much households and business will be expected to pay generators in capacity fees.”
Networks and generators are in the midst of a turf war over who gets to own battery storage, which straddles both their business models.
— Read on reneweconomy.com.au/turf-wars-in-the-energy-transition-over-who-gets-to-own-battery-storage/
Could this stimulate more community owned local retailers to make sure energy supply is fair and balanced?
Environment minister’s decision on Wollongong Coal expansion follows finding she has a duty to protect children from climate crisis
— Read on amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/03/sussan-ley-approves-first-coal-project-since-court-rules-she-owes-children-duty-of-care
How unlucky is Australia with Sussan?
Global warming sceptics should be hiding in corners. But still some defend the indefensible
— Read on www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/04/climate-change-deniers-are-as-slippery-as-those-who-justified-the-slave-trade
“Like late 18th-century opponents of abolishing the slave trade, Lord Lawson and the claque of Conservative cranks who filled the comment pages of the Tory press are remembered today as dangerous fools – assuming they are remembered at all…Every argument they advanced has been disproved, as much by the experience of everyday life as science…And yet there is nervousness among the impressively large number of Conservative politicians who are serious about pushing for net-zero. “
To meet climate targets and avoid economic collapse, countries such as Iraq need international support in the transition to clean energy, say Iraq’s deputy PM Ali Allawi and IEA executive director Fatih Birol
— Read on www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/01/oil-producing-countries-net-zero-2050-iraq
if Australia can’t even get started on domestic “just Transition for coal industry” how will we go to help worker transition to prevent even more melt downs in Iraq and other oil producing countries?
Like late 18th-century opponents of abolishing the slave trade, Lord Lawson and the claque of Conservative cranks who filled the comment pages of the Tory press are remembered today as dangerous fools – assuming they are remembered at all…Every argument they advanced has been disproved, as much by the experience of everyday life as science…And yet there is nervousness among the impressively large number of Conservative politicians who are serious about pushing for net-zero. Iraq
6 September, 2021 − The world’s major health journals say the climate and nature crisis is an emergency demanding we transform our societies.
— Read on climatenewsnetwork.net/global-health-journals-warn-on-climate-and-nature/
…if it’s not too late
Glasgow City Council has passed a motion to prevent companies that “contribute towards catastrophic climate change” from its venues during COP26.
— Read on www.edie.net/news/9/Climate-laggards-to-be-banned-from-booking-Glasgow-s-public-venues-for-COP26/
will supreme laggard Scomo even go?
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