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Ratify Paris Climate Change target, pledge your support

Please sign >pledge> via GetUpCommunity to let Minster for Energy and Environment know you’re not happy Australia is an outcast until we ratify, with 55% of countries with 55% of global emissions, per COP21 climate change commitment… New Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, however, … Continue reading

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Fight Turnbull

If you think PM Turnbull’s been disappointing so far, he’s now getting worse, much worse. Please help GetUp initiative for  big newspaper ad, before he fronts COAG, to change to energy policy worse than Abbott’s. >chip in at> GetUp

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DEMOCRATIC PARTY CALLS FOR WWII-SCALE NATIONAL MOBILIZATION TO COMBAT “GLOBAL CLIMATE EMERGENCY”

“Climate change poses an urgent and severe threat to our national security, and Democrats believe it would be a grave mistake for the United States to wait for another nation to take the lead in combating the global climate emergency. … Continue reading

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Blame solutions for SA storms

How disappointing can it get with Turnbull and Co, blaming renewables for 80,000 lightning strikes, 23 transmission towers down, so no way for delivery of any kind of electricity ?

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Year off work – to save climate

Brilliant new USA plan to harness energy of people who get it, a year, full time, building volunteer group to organise USA government of WW2 scale mobilisation, to rapid to zero then negative emissions, starting 4 July 2017. How about Australians following in these … Continue reading

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Massive Pumped Storage + Solar PV Project Closer to Reality

It’s the perfect location for a project like this because of the natural landscape. No dams will need to be built and the land will not be disturbed because it is a desert…“There is a big coastal mountain range very … Continue reading

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Earth now past major climate milestone

Measurements — first taken on top of the Mauna Loa volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii — eventually lead to the Keeling Curve, which some scientists have called “an icon of modern science.” The curve shows the rapid increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide … Continue reading

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Biggest storage in World, fast depletion for China and India

Note – there’s much fuss about storage, mostly about new batteries, but hundreds of millions of people are much more concerned  about storage of essential water for drinking, sanitation, irrigation and basic survival. Climate change is delivering ever more brief bursts … Continue reading

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Energy gold mine: storage = solar + pumped hydro

Australia’s biggest renewables-based energy storage project could be up and running in a few years, and will be unique in the world – a pumped hydro plant exploiting the sheer vertical drop an old open pit gold mine and the … Continue reading

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New Giga$ nukes in UK

French energy giant EDF, which already operates Hinkley Point B,British PM May has hails “new era UK nuclear power” after it ended years of uncertainty to give final approval to the £18 Billion ($A31.7B) Hinkley Point C plant in Somerset. French … Continue reading

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