Experts take Bishop’s to school on global warming at La Jolla forum

“All of you are going to need a stiff drink when you go home,” he addressed the audience of 300 mostly adults. “My concern is this. I’m sitting here in a school. The kids are in high school here. In 10 years, they’re finished their college education and settling into a job. And that’s when this thing is going to go into dangerous territory.”

https://www.lajollalight.com/news/story/2020-01-21/experts-take-bishops-to-school-on-global-warming

What steps can we take to protect the environment at home level?

What steps can we take to protect the environment at home level?

1)      Turn off the coal power mains electricity to your home & install solar power.

2)    Use any fossil fuel motor vehicles as little as possible.

3)    Grow your own food (if you are keeping ducks in the garden you will need to use raised garden beds or fence sections off & let the ducks in during off season).

4)   Keep chooks & ducks for eggs & meat.

5)    Free range your ducks in the garden area to kill the slogs & snails.

6)   Start a compost heap in your garden.

7)    Feed all your veggie scraps to the chooks & ducks, or, add them to you compost heap.

8)    Grow fruit trees & bushes.

9)   Remove your water toilets & install composting toilets.

10)Install a grey water system that takes the water from the laundry, bathroom & kitchen into deep trenches under you garden beds.

11)   Purchase & install rainwater storage tanks for house & garden & turn off the mains water supply to your home. If you need to conserve water, use containers in your kitchen sink for washing up & use this water on your trees.

12) Recycle as much as possible yourself as recycling collection by the council may be just going into landfill!

13) Try & avoid purchasing food items in plastic wrap.

14)Try & avoid purchasing anything in plastic bottles, choose glass over plastic.

15) DO NOT purchase or accept any single use plastic items.

16)Choose glass or ceramic containers over plastic when practical.

17) DO NOT purchase poisons to kill weeds. Either dig them up by hand or use urine.

18) Only purchase environmentally friendly washing soaps.

19)DO NOT use spray cans of insect repellent or air fresheners.

20)                       DO NOT burn coal.

21) DO NOT burn gas.

22)                        Install a wood burning cook stove ( & heater if you need to heat the house). Burning wood does create carbon emissions, but not as much as coal, gas or using mains electricity. If you plant trees this should offset these carbon emissions.

23)                        DO NOT use an incinerator; put all biodegradables such as lawn grass cuttings, weeds, leaves etc in the compost heap.

24)                       Avoid purchasing anything that has to be transported by truck, ship or plane.

25)                        Avoid flying anywhere.

26)                       Use a push mower if you have lawns to mow. A better option is to turn your lawn into a veggie garden.

27)                       Purchase second hand where you can.

28)                       Move out of the city & live off grid if you can.
Keith.

Australian government Corruption. Big Coal's network of influence over the coalition government

The coal industry has infiltrated Australia's federal government through a secretive network of ties, working to influence Australia’s political decisions at the highest level: right up to the office of the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison

Big Coal's network of influence over the coalition government

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Why is this so horrifying?

Coal is the number one cause of climate damage. It causes more frequent and intense natural disasters like bushfires while also polluting our water and air. By pandering to the interests of the coal industry, the Coalition Government is putting dirty profits ahead of the health and wellbeing of Australians who want our nation to run on clean energy.

From furthering the fossil-fuelled agenda of current Prime Minister Scott Morrison, to helping to bring about the swift downfall of former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull: the coal industry has infiltrated the Australian Government at the highest level.

WE’VE UNCOVERED THE WEB OF CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE WORLD’S BIGGEST COAL GIANTS, INDUSTRY GROUPS, LOBBYISTS AND POWERFUL MEDIA ORGANISATIONS THAT SERVES TO HALT ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND STALL THE TRANSITION TO CLEAN ENERGY. 

Bushfires threaten drinking water safety. The consequences could last for decades

Bushfires pose serious short- and long-term impacts to public drinking water quality. They can damage water supply infrastructure and water catchments, impeding the treatment processes that normally make our water safe to drink.

Several areas in New South Wales and Victoria have already been issued with warnings about the quality of their drinking water.

Short-term risks

Bushfires can damage or disrupt water supply infrastructure as they burn. And the risks can persist after the fires are out.

Long-term risks

Bushfires can damage drinking water catchments, which can lead to longer term threats to drinking water. Drinking water catchments are typically forested areas, and so are vulnerable to bushfire damage.

More Information Here: https://theconversation.com/bushfires-threaten-drinking-water-safety-the-consequences-could-last-for-decades-129353

Australian Government Corruption. Global Warming and Climate Change: what Australia knew and buried!!!

Australians persuaded to doubt what they knew!!!

What happened in the 1990s? Most dramatically, the fossil fuel and allied industries got into gear. The momentum to support and expand the existing fossil fuel economy was boosted by neo-liberal think tanks and insistent sceptics, in sympathy with free market economic ideology. They mounted a potent and high-level lobbying campaign aimed at federal politicians. Coal, oil, natural gas and other extractive industries, along with other multinational corporations, such as the energy-intensive aluminium smelting industry, got organised and exerted considerable influence on government, particularly after 1995 (Hamilton 2001; Pearse 2007).

More Here: https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p303951/html/Chapt05.xhtml?referer=&page=10

Stopping Global Warming, avoiding a worldwide mass extinction of all life on earth!

Stopping Global Warming, avoiding a worldwide mass extinction of all life on earth!

So what is it these protesters want? They are asking the government to act on global warming climate change, to stabilise it, to stop it before it goes any further. But in order to do this, the government would have to shut down all coal powered electricity generators, they would have to stop the destruction ( burning, clearing, logging) of all native forests & woodlands, & they would have to ban the further use of all motor vehicles excepting those for essential services. Are the people really prepared for this? Do they really expect the government to do this?

If we do not stop burning fossil fuels completely NOW, & stop destroying our native forests & woodlands, then Australia is going to become uninhabitable, global warming will cause teotwawki, & after that quite possibly a mass extinction of humankind! Yes this will cause chaos in the cities, UNLESS, the government fast tracks solar power to the electricity grid; this can be done, we have the technology, we have the solar panels, & we have the massive battery storage facilities required.

But solar power is not a magic wand; solar power cannot stop global warming if we are going to continue to burn fossil fuels, if we are going to continue to use coal powered electricity, & if we continue to use combustion engine vehicles.

Society needs to change, & it needs to change now. We do not have enough time left for reductions, for cut backs, for promises of what we are going to do by the year 2021-2022-2023 etc etc. We have literally run out of time, we have left it too late to act. Ten years ago we could have started a progressive program to change our society, to change the way we work & live. Ten years ago we could have started working on solar & wind power for the grid. But this was not done. The government was totally focused on the economy, focused on keeping corporatism on side, focused on attracting votes, & the general public kept on demanding more & more. More jobs, higher wages, more housing, lower taxes, better health services; all of these wants & needs were totally justified, but amongst the clambering for a perceived higher standard of living, the majority of people forgot about the cost to our environment, they forgot that humans are just another species of animal that relies on the earth’s environment to keep us alive!

Humans have polluted the earth, contaminated the natural environment. We have built cities that shut out the natural environment & the people in those cities have lost contact with nature. Until these present bushfires filled these cities with smoke, they had completely forgotten about the world outside of their city. They have become totally dependent on modern technology, & if that technology should now come to an end through global warming, then society will collapse, & the people will die! It is as simple as that. You now have to choose between life or death. Life in a changed society that may not be to your liking, or life living a “Stone Age” lifestyle in a world that is coming to an end. More heat, more storms, more droughts & perhaps more floods. In some places more intense cold, because that is what climate change is doing, it is creating more extreme weather conditions worldwide.

Australia is going to become uninhabitable if we do not stop global warming NOW, & with global warming affecting the whole of our world, there may be no place for us to migrate to. Think about that, but don’t take too long, we are fast running out of time!
Keith H. Burgess.

Climate change report predicts Armageddon by 2050

An Australian policy paper outlining a doomsday scenario for humans if there is no action taken to deal with climate change suggests that by 2050, there could be irreversible damage to global climate systems.

This would result in a world of chaos where political panic is the norm and would see us on a path facing the end of civilisation.

https://news.theceomagazine.com/environment/climate-change-apocalypse-2050/

Scientists say intensifying heatwaves will soon make Australian cities ‘uninhabitable’

Climate scientists are warning that if these conditions persist, a number of Australia’s capitals will become uninhabitable in the very near future.

Heatwaves form when high pressure in the upper atmosphere stops air from rising and traps the heat, similarly to how a pressure cooker works. Extreme heatwaves wreak havoc on the environment and threaten power, traffic and water infrastructure.

https://www.techly.com.au/2017/11/27/scientists-say-heatwaves-getting-worse-will-make-australian-cities-uninhabitable/

“If climate change keeps accelerating the Top End will become uninhabitable”

“If climate change keeps accelerating the Top End will become uninhabitable due to extreme heat, catastrophic storms and sea level rise.”

https://350.org.au/if-climate-change-keeps-accelerating-the-top-end-will-become-uninhabitable/

'Many parts of Earth could become uninhabitable': Study's grim warning!!!

Earth is at risk of entering an irreversible "hothouse" climate, according to a new study

Many parts of the planet could become uninhabitable, scientists warn

The point of no return "could be only decades ahead"

https://www.smh.com.au/national/many-parts-of-earth-could-become-uninhabitable-study-s-grim-warning-20180807-p4zvwx.html

Too hot for humans? First Nations people fear becoming Australia's first climate refugees!!!

Aboriginal people in Alice Springs say global heating threatens their survival

The town had 55 days above 40C in the year to July 2019

Central Australian outstations are running out of water

Poor quality housing in town camps cannot be cooled effectively

Indigenous leaders fear extreme heat will cause influx of internal refugees

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/dec/18/too-hot-for-humans-first-nations-people-fear-becoming-australias-first-climate-refugees

Climate change evacuation planning needs to start now, scientists urge

Some people will become stateless, and will need to find homes in new countries, while others will need to relocate within their own borders.

Researchers writing in Science today argue that it's time to begin preparing the retreat of people living in regions that will become uninhabitable due to climate change.

By preparing now we can manage retreat in as equitable a way possible, and minimise paternalism and disruption to culture, according to author AR Siders from the Disaster Research Centre at the University of Delaware.

"People need to think about it right now," Dr Siders said.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-08-23/climate-retreat-planning-science/11435382

Aljazeera. Climate Change Extinction.

Aljazeera. Climate Change Extinction.

11,000 scientists just announced that climate change has us on track for 'untold suffering', while the UN says the collapse of our ecosystems could wipe out a **MILLION** species.

And, we could be one of them.

There used to be many "environmental issues". But now, it's all one struggle. For life itself. We’re not separate from nature -- we ARE nature, and in this struggle we can find our true selves: not a virus that plagues this planet, but a species that protects all life.

Catastrophic climate change could end life on Earth. But our most powerful protection against climate change is life itself - vast forests and grasslands that turn our carbon emissions into water and oxygen. But since 1970, we've destroyed vast habitats, wiping out 60% of mammal, bird, fish and reptile populations! Only by saving both the climate and nature can we ultimately save ourselves.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/climate-change-11000-scientists-warn-untold-suffering-191106055959807.html

I don’t know if there are any organizations out there that can organize a peaceful revolution, but if there is, then you better do it NOW, because we are fast running out of time!!!

Global Warming 2020 Australia.

It is early summer here in Australia; the temperature outside in the shade today was 35 degrees C. Fire season started here in New England in winter, & the bushfires have increasingly got worse. People are still talking about what we are going to do before 2050, but don’t you think that by 2050 the temperatures here will have reached such a height that we will not be able to go outside!!! The human body shuts down at 50 degrees C. !!! At these temperatures road surfaces will be melting, & this includes airport runways! Railway tracks will be buckling, transport will be at a standstill!!!

What do you think is going to happen to the electricity grid when everyone turns on their air conditioners? Is the government going to cater to this with more coal power generators?!!! The government says that Australia has met its carbon reduction target, but this is absolute bullshit, & on top of this Australia is exporting more coal than any other country in the whole world!!!

Bushfires are already in the extreme, & summer has only just started. Each year Australia will get hotter, my dam is the lowest it has ever been, leaves in the garden burn from the sun without shade cloth. The forest trees are dying fast, & the more trees that die, the faster global warming accelerates!!! Our tanks are not empty yet, but with no decent rain they soon may be. I am not likely to live until 2050, but my sons will, & my grandchildren will. Imagine what life is going to be like for them in 30 years time?!!!

We all know what needs to be done, we need to stop burning fossil fuels, & we need to stop destroying the native forests & woodlands, but this is not going to happen is it? The government certainly won’t stop selling coal or stop the burning of fossil fuels, will the people do it? No of course they won’t, they will sit on the fence until global warming really gets bad, so bad that those city lifestyles are affected, then they will start to winge & wine & some may even join the street protests, but will they do anything? Will they take control? No they won’t.

Eventually global warming will get really bad, and then the street protests will turn violent. People will get hurt & arrested. Things will get worse & this may start a revolution, but by this time it will be too late. Global warming will have past the point of no return, society will collapse, climate change will cause TEOTWAWKI, & after that possibly a mass extinction! WHY? Why is the Australian public sitting on the bloody fence waiting for this to happen? It makes no sense to me what so ever. If the government were to ban the drinking of beer I will wager the whole of Australia would be up in arms, but tell them that there is going to be a human extinction & they totally ignore it.

I don’t have any answers for the minority like myself who can see what is coming but are unable to stop it. All I can advise is that you start to prepare for what is coming. Get out of the city, go off grid. Grow your own food as best you can, be as self reliant & self sufficient as you can given the present society restrictions. Teach your children what to do. Start preparing now while we still have time.

Keith.

How deadly is 50-degree heat? Australia's cities face the new reality of climate change

Buckled train tracks, grounded planes, melting bitumen and massive blackouts: the dystopian vision of the 50-degree city is closer to reality every day.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-29/50-degree-cities-becoming-closer-to-reality/10308350

Climate Change Emergency is Real. Our very lives depend on us acting NOW!!!

This was Wychwood Forest some years ago, now it is dying. There is no longer any green grass & the wildlife is suffering. The trees are literally dieing from the heat & the lack of rain. On top of this we are now threatened by catastrophic bushfires. All this is caused by human made climate change. 

Long before the cattle industry, the world was populated with large numbers of ruminants, but the world seemed to have no issues with methane. American plains Africa and other continents had millions of buffalo, so how & when did the problem arise?

The world was a different place back then, large grassy plains managed by the indigenous peoples, huge wide spread forests, & healthy oceans. All these were producing oxygen & absorbing methane/Co2.

Then came the industrial revolution & the invasion of America & Australia. The industrial revolution marks the time steam engines were invented & coal was being burnt for energy. The invasions killed off many of the indigenous peoples & changed their lifestyles for ever. The grassy plains were no longer being managed to produce more green grass for the wildlife, now it was overrun by cattle & sheep. The forests were being logged for timber & destroyed & cleared to make more land for settlement & farming. The oceans lasted a little longer, but eventually humans also managed to pollute & contaminate with radio active waste, oil spills, garbage disposal, & single use plastics.

The herds of herbivores were mostly killed off & replaced with cattle & sheep in far greater numbers. The world was/is no longer green & the carbon dioxide levels rose & the oxygen levels in the oceans reduced. Now we have human made climate change, which is further destroying our forests through creating catastrophic conditions for bushfires. We have the internal combustion engine churning out Co2 into the atmosphere. We have coal burning electricity plants churning out more Co2 into our atmosphere. The planet is warming which is melting the ice & the permafrost. Melting ice has created black water which absorbs more heat. Melting permafrost is releasing more carbon into the atmosphere & releasing long buried pathogens & viruses.

Our world can no long keep up with the massive production of Co2 from livestock & other sources. The planet will survive when most, if not all humans have died due to climate change.
Keith.

The world's people, the Australian people, need to act now. If they do not take control of this human made climate change situation, then we may all quite possibly die in a mass extinction event!!! This is NOT paranoia, this is NOT sensationalising, this is NOT bullshit! This is REAL! If the people wait for someone else to fix this, they are going to find themselves trying to survive TEOTWAWKI, & after that possibly a mass extinction!

I have done all I can through popular media channels to warn the population about climate change global warming, apart from preparing my own home in the forest off grid to help my children & grandchildren survive, there is nothing else that I can do. You NEED to take control of your lives, you NEED to take control of climate change by stopping the burning of fossil fuels, & by stopping the logging & destruction of our native forests & woodlands. Your future & your children's future depends on it!!!
Keith.

Warming at the poles will soon be felt globally in rising seas, extreme weather Ice loss, permafrost thaw, fires: Trouble in the Arctic and Antarctic could cause shocks to the world’s weather and sea levels sooner than thought, says a new study.

Warming at the poles will soon be felt globally in rising seas, extreme weather.

Ice loss, permafrost thaw, fires: Trouble in the Arctic and Antarctic could cause shocks to the world’s weather and sea levels sooner than thought, says a new study.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/12/arctic/

Climate change driving entire planet to dangerous 'tipping point‘ Scientists "don’t think people realize how little time we have left,” to stop irreversible and disastrous changes to Earth’s climate systems.

EVIDENCE THAT IRREVERSIBLE changes in Earth’s climate systems are underway means we are in a state of planetary emergency, leading climate scientists warn. A cascade of tipping points could amount to a global tipping point, where multiple earth systems march past the point of no return, they say.

That possibility is “an existential threat to civilization,” write Tim Lenton and colleagues in this week’s Nature.

Such a collapse of Earth’s systems could lead to “hothouse earth” conditions with a global temperature rise of 9 degrees F (5 degrees C), sea levels rising 20 to 30 feet, the complete loss of the world’s coral reefs and the Amazon forest, and with large parts of the planet uninhabitable.

A global emergency response is required to limit warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius), they warn. “The stability and resilience of our planet is in peril,” they say.

“It’s a nasty shock that tipping points we thought might happen well into the future are already underway,” says Lenton in an interview.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/11/earth-tipping-point/

The National Climate Emergency Summit.

The evidence is clear. The world is standing at the edge of major ecological and humanitarian tipping points, and time has run out for half measures.

https://www.climateemergencysummit.org/about/

TURN OFF YOUR COAL POWERED ELECTRICITY!

We have left it too late for any half arsed measures to stabilise climate change! There is no time left for changing from coal power to solar, we can't wait that long & the government will not do it anyway! You want to do something NOW? Then turn off your coal powered electricity to your home, because when climate change gets worse I think the grid will go down anyway!