Tag: Climate Crisis

Climate Change

Climate Crisis: Greece’s Record Rainfall, Flooding, are part of a Mediterranean trend to more Dangerous Weather

According to Murdoch Media, these events are local and exceptional only in those areas in which they occur and maintain there’s nothing to worry about globally. Australia predicted to be the most threatened place by global climate change is being laughed at by News Corp and on a regular basis by hired media puppets like Andrew Bolt and Rowan Dean. Despite the increasing scientific data that’s been collected even when the government cut back on research.

These unprecedented flash floods were triggered by rainfall from the arrival of Storm Daniel on Monday September 4 which also affected Turkey and Bulgaria. The following day, in the village of Zagora, a record-breaking 754mm of rain fell in just 18 hours, leaving parts of the region of Thessaly in crisis and unable to respond.

Source: Climate Crisis: Greece’s Record Rainfall, Flooding, are part of a Mediterranean trend to more Dangerous Weather

Fossil Fuel Industry

Fossil Fuel Lobbyists in California Are Playing Both Sides of the Climate Crisis

Their primary aim is to keep mining and burning carbon

According to data reviewed by a new climate group in California, the same fossil fuel lobbyists trying to sink climate legislation are also representing the state’s cities and counties being pummeled hardest by the climate crisis.

Source: Fossil Fuel Lobbyists in California Are Playing Both Sides of the Climate Crisis

Climate Science, Not rocket science, Science vs Ideology

Kerry is Right that US must Cooperate with China to fight Climate Crisis, and CATL’s new Sodium Ion Battery Proves it

A startling new development in battery technology underscores why John Kerry is right that the US needs to cooperate with China on combating the climate crisis. The Washington Blob, the combination of lobbyists, permanent bureaucrats, national security professionals and think tanks, is always looking for an enemy to demonize. China is now being marked as a demon du jour inside the Beltway. There isn’t any doubt that the US has significant policy differences with Beijing. There is no reason, however, to allow those differences to be unnecessarily militarized. Moreover, there is no reason to allow differences in some areas to forestall cooperation in others.

The Chinese battery company Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.( CATL) announced at the Shanghai auto show a few days ago that it has succeeded in developing a whole new kind of battery for EVs and even airplanes, which is twice as efficient as our current lithium ion batteries. The new battery is a sodium ion technology, different from the reigning lithium ion battery that fuels most electric cars. If the new battery performs as advertised, it is potentially a huge game changer in electrification.

Source: Kerry is Right that US must Cooperate with China to fight Climate Crisis, and CATL’s new Sodium Ion Battery Proves it

Climate Change

The Market Will Never Solve the Climate Crisis

Scott Morrison regularly declared “Thats Not My Job ”

When oil prices plummeted during the pandemic, fossil fuel companies made vague efforts to invest in clean energy. Now pulling in bumper profits, Big Oil is discarding those initiatives to maintain their business model: capital over climate.

Source: The Market Will Never Solve the Climate Crisis

Climate Change

Deadly cold spells grip the planet as climate crisis worsens

The climate crisis ravaging the planet, escalated by the burning of fossil fuels, is causing devastating cold weather in various regions with deadly consequences, writes Jane Marsh.

Source: Deadly cold spells grip the planet as climate crisis worsens

ASIO

Australia’s Spy Agency Saw Climate Crisis Coming 40 Years Ago – Mother Jones

Morrison is doing what was done 40 years ago NOTHING and he’s calling that PROGRESSIVE and a world-leading strategy.

The report was stamped CONFIDENTIAL twice on each page, with the customary warning it should “not be released to any other government except Britain, Canada, NZ and US.” About 40 years ago this week, the spooks at Australia’s intelligence agency, the Office of National Assessments (ONA), delivered the 17-page report to prime minister Malcolm Fraser. The subject? “Fossil Fuels and the Greenhouse Effect.” Michael Cook, the agency’s director general, wrote in an introduction how his team had looked at the implications of rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere “with special reference to Australia as a producer and exporter of coal.” Cook wrote: “Scientists now agree that if such emissions continue it will some time in the next century lead to a discernible ‘greenhouse effect’ whereby the Earth’s atmosphere becomes measurably warmer with related climatic changes.”

Source: Australia’s Spy Agency Saw Climate Crisis Coming 40 Years Ago – Mother Jones

Climate Change

Greta Thunberg to World Leaders at COP26: Shove your ‘Climate Crisis’ up your Arse!

Like Greta’s School Strike for the Climate, the climate movement in the streets of Glasgow is informed by the recognition that the science is clear and the solutions to the climate crisis are readily available. It is only political will that is lacking. This must be supplied by ordinary people, from all walks of life, through creative, dramatic action and mass mobilization, to demand the political and economic transformation we so desperately need. The usually mild-mannered UN Secretary General Guterres made it clear that “street heat” will be key to saving humanity. “The climate action army – led by young people – is unstoppable,” he told world leaders in Glasgow. “They are larger. They are louder. And, I assure you, they are not going away.”

Source: Greta Thunberg to World Leaders at COP26: Shove your ‘Climate Crisis’ up your Arse!