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What happens to us when the Earth is 2 degrees Warmer?
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Extinction is OUR choice, unless……. within the next 8 years we have STOPPED using fossil fuels, PLANTED millions of trees, ended logging, and PREPARED our cities and agriculture for the inevitable sea rise.
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What happens to us when the Earth
is 2 degrees Warmer?The fact that CO2 and methane concentrations have passed the threshold of 400ppm is of the most enormous significance. It means we have entered a new era – the era of dangerous climate change.
We have reached the point where our children
can no longer be promised a safe climate.The most urgent outcomes of a 2°C rise, which is now at the low end of what is expected, and without even considering the devastation of triggering even one of the climate tipping points, would be:
- Most coastal cities such as London, Rome and New York would become uninhabitable for many. Metros would be flooded, sewage and stormwater flows would be overwhelmed, and most cable infrastructure would be affected. More drastically, most docks would be underwater so that food and oil could not be landed, even if it could be loaded onto the ships in the first place.
- Enormous areas of the most productive agricultural land would be underwater. One thinks immediately of Bangladesh and the North Sea farms in Holland and Anglesea. In addition frequent floods, droughts and storms would cause sever losses every year. The reduction in food production would be so severe that half the world’s population would be hungry or starving.
- The alteration in the cold water flow that drives the great deep-sea currents of the world would have a profound impact on the Gulf Stream, with completely unpredictable results. The eastern US and Europe may become hotter or colder or more storm-ridden. No matter which, the outcome spells serious changes for some of the most advanced cultures on earth.
- Decreased availability and quality of fresh water bring hardship to between 1.2bn and 3bn people in almost every country. The Red Cross has said that it does not expect international aid to be able to keep up with the impact of climate change.
- Suburbia would break down, for shopping and income are dependent on the motor car and the truck – to get to shops and offices and to transport food to centralised shopping malls.
- Transportation will be limited as deliveries of oil become more difficult. Paved roads will go unrepaired and potholed and blocked by abandoned cars.
- Repair of existing plant and machinery will become increasingly difficult as spare parts are used up and the industrial infrastructure declines. Those who can remember how they lived in the Depression years of the 1930s will be the experts.
- The bankruptcy of the insurance industry would diminish replacement of industry and houses from fire and extreme events.
- Lastly, and most significantly for a world that is now awash in guns, people, in their millions, will be on the move for survival. This would lead to economic and political instability, both nationally and internationally, and even to wars as refugees seek new homes and countries clash over scarce water and food supplies. The industrial countries would be under immense pressure from huge numbers of refugees
This is the future that we are bequeathing our children and ourselves if any of us are younger than eighty. This is happening in our times, to our families and loved ones, and is no longer a distant scenario. It is here.
Those who live in the country will be better prepared than those who live in the city. A city is a place that consumes a great deal and produces little, at least in terms of essentials. A city without incoming food or water collapses rapidly, whereas a small community closely tied to the natural environment can more easily adjust to technological and economic change.
It could spell extinction for most of us, and for the planet we love,
and, of course it will be enormously worse when temperatures go above 2°C.We have very little time to act now. Governments must stop talking and start spending. We already have the technology to solve most of these problems and still meet our growing need for energy. We even have the money! We have to get government to act.
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3 April 2015Freedom in capitalist society is the same as it was in ancient Greece: Freedom for the slave owners.
Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Almost all other issues are superficial by comparison to soil loss. So why don’t we talk about it?To keep up with global food demand, the UN estimates, 6 million hectares of new farmland will be needed every year. Instead, 12 million hectares a year are lost through soil degradation. We wreck it, then move on, trashing rainforests and other precious habitats as we go. Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters, making them available to plants, so a handful contains more micro-organisms than all the people who have ever lived on Earth. Yet we treat it like dirt. The techniques that were supposed to feed the world threaten us with starvation. http://www.monbiot.com/2015/03/25/3703/Only 60 Years of Farming Left If Soil Degradation ContinuesGenerating three centimeters of top soil takes 1,000 yearshttp://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-farming-left-if-soil-degradation-continues/ Only 100 harvests left in UK farm soils, scientists warnhttp://www.fwi.co.uk/news/only-100-harvests-left-in-uk-farm-soils-scientists-warn.htm Six Million Hectares of Additional Farmland Needed Annually To Meet Global Food Demandhttp://liquid-investments.com/six-million-hectares-of-additional-farmland-needed-2/
UN green climate fund can be spent on coal-fired power generation The green climate fund (GCF) refused an explicit ban on fossil fuel projects at the contentious meeting in Songdo, South Korea, last week. “It’s like a torture convention that doesn’t forbid torture,”http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/29/un-green-climate-fund-can-be-spent-on-coal-fired-power-generation?CMP=ema_565
Focus on Methane If only a few percent of the massive reserves of methane in the subsea Arctic hydrates are released temperature could jump 10C and produce a “Permian” style major extinction event. The northern hemisphere is now covered by a thickening methane veil that is spreading southwards at about 1 km a day and already envelopes the US. Global warming has heated the Gulf Stream flowing into the Arctic, causing destabilisation of the subsea methane hydrates. A giant hole in the equatorial ozone layer in the west Pacific acts like an elevator transferring methane from lower altitudes to the stratosphere. Methane is raising the temperature of the lower atmosphere many times faster than CO2, one cause of the extreme summer temperatures in Australia.http://arctic-news.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/focus-on-methane.html andhttp://arctic-news.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/like-a-giant-elevator-to-the-stratosphere.html Global warming is slowing down the circulation of the oceans — with potentially dire consequenceshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/03/23/global-warming-is-now-slowing-down-the-circulation-of-the-oceans-with-potentially-dire-consequences/?tid=pm_business_pop
NASA: A Year in the Life of Earth’s CO2 Well worth watching! An high-resolution NASA computer model gives a stunning look at how CO2 travels around the globe.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1SgmFa0r04
World Christianity Today: By the NumbersIn the last quarter of the twentieth century Catholicism was displaced by Islam as the world’s largest religious community. Over the past century Africa, home to less than 9 million Christians in 1900, has 542 million today, and perhaps 1.2 billion by 2050, when there will be as many African Christians as Latin American and European Christians combined. http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2015/02/world-christianity-by-the-numbers
Syria uprising was planned long agoThe motive was to overthrow a regime that Israel regards as hostile. The former Israeli prime minister told me ‘We’ll try to get on with our neighbouring states, but those who don’t get along, we will take them down’.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz-s2AAh06I Obama Now Sides with EU To End Ukraine’s WarMerkel and Hollande wanted the war to end, but Obama did not; he wanted a third, round. So Merkel and Hollande flew to Moscow to successfully negotiate with Putin, without Obama. He then decided not to send weapons, so as not to antagonize leaders whose cooperation he was seeking on the proposed Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. This would grant international corporations effective control over the environmental, labor, and safety regulations of participating countries. http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse260315.htm
While love is all around us!Fateful Steps That Led to the Crisis in Ukraine (Part One)The crisis that struck Ukraine last year– the overthrow of the elected president, the Russian annexation of Crimea, the rebellion in the Russian speaking eastern provinces– was the result of problems that had been festering along the former frontiers of the USSR since the end of the cold war and the collapse of eastern European socialism.http://www.opednews.com/articles/Fateful-Steps-That-Led-to-by-Thomas-Riggins-Crisis_Frontline_NATO_Putin-150323-832.html
With all the sabre-rattling we have been left in the dark on the growing capabilities of the major protagopnistThe Next-Generation Weapons That Russia Will Use In World War IIIThe Russian military is in the midst of a sweeping modernization program, and it is developing some incredibly impressive offensive and defensive weapons designed for a future war with the US. Meanwhile, the US is focused on small regional wars. There has been little modernisation, and many nuclear missile silos are using technology that is outdated. For example eight inch floppy disks are still being used in many of our missile silos.http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/the-next-generation-weapons-that-russia-will-use-against-the-united-states-in-world-war-iii
Nigeria army captures last stronghold of Boko Haram:Nigerian army troops on Friday liberated Gwoza, a town that the Boko Haram militant group had used as the headquarters of its self-styled “Islamic caliphate” in northeastern Nigeria.http://www.aa.com.tr/en/rss/484693–nigeria-army-captures-last-stronghold-of-boko-haram Russia unveils plans for high speed railway and superhighway to connect Europe and America:Plans for a new high-speed transport corridor that could potentially link London and New York by rail and superhighway.http://tinyurl.com/nd4s9x9What Lies Behind the Recent Surge of Amazon Deforestation The pace of cutting and forest clearing in the Amazon is on the rise again from an improving global economy, rising commodity prices, and recent Brazilian laws that encourage the development of the Amazon.http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/27/what-lies-behind-recent-surge-amazon-deforestation Abbott’s climate policy give the big polluters a free kickDirect Action will have no requirement for major energy polluters to limit greenhouse gas emissions. The benchmark has been set at the highest level of pollution over the last five years. Some mines will be allowed to go beyond that if they can argue that “historical high point does not fully reflect expected business-as-usual emissions.”http://reneweconomy.com.au/2015/abbotts-climate-policy-farce-deepens-as-big-polluters-get-free-kick-37149
The Geopolitics Behind the War in YemenA careful report on what may yet become a major conflict involving most countries in the ME. The war is not from a Houthi coup, but because (with Saudi and US support) the President had tried to backtrack on the power sharing agreements he had made. Doe this not remind you of Bao Dai and the start of the war in Vietnam?http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41396.htm For photos of the extraordinary architecture of Sana’a now under threathttp://www.smh.com.au/world/the-ancient-treasure-of-sanaa-in-yemen-one-of-the-worlds-most-beautiful-cities-is-being-bombed-20150401-1mbnpk.html Is the Stage Set for the Big War?http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41388.htm Israeli Fighter Jets Join Saudi Arabia in War on Yemen:“This is not the first time that the Zionists are conducting a joint operation with Arabs”http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940107000322 5 Facts You Need To Know About Yemen And Its ConflictsOne of the poorest and most violent countries in the Middle East, Yemen is of strategic importance for regional players and some of the world’s most dangerous terror groups. http://rt.com/news/244325-facts-about-yemen-crisis/
Abbott’s divide and conquer rule crucifies renewables industryThe government brought the renewable energy industry to a standstill by doing the bidding of the fossil fuel industry. The renewable energy industry in Australia has three major weaknesses: lack of financial muscle; disparate interests; and craving for policy certainty. http://reneweconomy.com.au/2015/abbotts-divide-and-conquer-rule-crucifies-renewables-industry-41873
Photos of the artificial islands that China has built quickly in the South China Sea:China made careful preparations without alerting opposing claimants or the US and started construction suddenly and carried it out rapidly. The key issue is the exploitation of resources. With those islands as bases, China can exploit the fishing, energy etc while the navy can prevent other countries from exploiting the resources.https://tiananmenstremendousachievements.wordpress.com/tag/cuarteron-reef/
Facebook tracks all visitorsWhen a user visits a third-party site that carries one of Facebook’s social plug-ins, it detects and sends the tracking cookies back to Facebook – even if the user does not interact with the Like button, Facebook Login or other extensions.http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/31/facebook-tracks-all-visitors-breaching-eu-law-report?CMP=ema_565
Russia Has Constructed Massive Underground Shelters In Anticipation Of Nuclear WarComplex in the Ural mountains has been estimated to be 400 square miles in size. The Russians have never stopped making preparations for nuclear war. http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/russia-has-constructed-massive-underground-shelters-in-anticipation-of-nuclear-war
The United States is losing its edge. US is surrendering the research and development advantage that has fueled its economy for six decades. China now performs more R&D than the US, and South Korea and Germany have greater annual growth in R&D. China has tripled its number of researchers, and produces more students with science and engineering degrees. It is rapidly racking up patents. http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_27736399/mercury-news-editorial-u-s-needs-increase-r?source=infinite
The Blood Cries OutIn one of Africa’s most densely populated countries, brothers are killing brothers over the right to farm a few acres. There is not enough land to go around in Burundi — and it could push the country into civil war.http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/03/27/the-blood-cries-out-burundi-land-conflict/
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NSW election: it’s a wrap. So what next? Holly, Land Water Future
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As we move into a new term of parliament we’d love to hear what’s most important to you. Let us know. Neville —
Something big just happened in NSW. For the first time ever coal seam gas and mining became election-defining issues. From the Northern Rivers to suburban Sydney, the message was loud and clear.
In at least three electorates where coal or gas is a major issue — Ballina, Wyong and Campbelltown — Liberals and Nationals lost their seats.
Meanwhile, as the ballots continue to be counted in Lismore, the Nationals have copped a 24% swing away from them with the Greens neck and neck to take the seat. What’s the big deal about that? It’s that Lismore has been a very safe Nationals seat for decades and in recent years when the community put its foot down over coal seam gas, the locals Nationals MP ignored them, until it was too late.
Elsewhere in the state’s mining affected regions, there were significant swings away from Coalition MPs too. In Barwon, home to the Narrabri Gas Project in the Pilliga Forest, the Nationals MP had a 12% swing away from him, and he was dumped from Cabinet. In the Upper Hunter, where AGL want to put a coal seam gasfield at Gloucester, the local Nats MP copped a massive 21% swing away from him. In the neighbouring electorate of Myall Lakes, the numbers were much the same, a 20% swing away from the Nationals. Coal seam gas is a hot issue in Clarence too and the Nationals MP there was dealt a 21% swing away from him.
On the Central Coast where the Wallarah 2 coal mine proposal threatens local drinking water, Labor, who oppose the mine, picked up the seat of Wyong while the incumbent Liberal MP in neighbouring seat of Gosford is barely clinging on as votes continue to be counted there.
It’s a hell of a shake up for the Baird government’s second term. Coal seam gas and mining is the issue no NSW politician can afford to ignore any longer.
As all of us know, none of this happened by luck — rather this moment is the result of tireless work by thousands of people right across our state.
So what now? We know many politicians operate on election cycles, but for the rest of us, our work continues until achieve permanent protection for our land, our water and our communities.
There are pre-election promises we’ll work to turn into policy because we’re here to hold our politicians to their word.
- There are the leaky coal seam gas wells in south west Sydney that we’ll continue to work with the community to have decommissioned, because no one should have to live near that.
- There are the farmers of the Liverpool Plains who we’ll continue to champion as they fight off the massive Shenhua Watermark coal mine, because our food producing land is too precious to lose.
- There is the Pilliga Forest to protect from Santos’ huge gasfield proposal, because forests should be full of trees and animals, not gas wells and pipelines.
- There’s the idyllic Gloucester Valley to protect from AGL’s fracking and the impending expansion of open-cut coal too, because no one wants to live or holiday in an industrial zone.
- There’s the work that will continue until the mid north coast and Northern Rivers is permanently protected and gasfield free.
- There’s the little Hunter Valley town of Bulga whose few hundred residents have called for a helping hand to knock Rio Tinto’s coal mine plans on the head once and for all, because no town should be relocated to make way for a mine.
- There’s our water catchments, and especially those that provide for Sydney because coal mining companies in the southern coalfields have been allowed to come too close for too long, and the stakes are simply too high to keep giving our waterways over to mining.
Those are a few of the spots we’ll be focusing our attention on.
But we’d like to hear from you. What is most important to you as we head into a new term of parliament in NSW? You can let us know by filling out this short question survey.
There are five questions (three of them are multiple choice) and it should take no longer than 5 minutes to complete. Please feel free to share it around your networks, we’re keen to hear from people all over NSW.
That’s it from us for now, we hope you’ll be enjoying some well-earned rest over the coming long weekend,
Holly and the Land, Water, Future team
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It’s crunch time. The super trawler is here… Stop The Trawler Crew
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Dear Neville
We don’t usually email this often but we thought you would want to know. The Dirk Dirk (aka Geelong Star) has arrived in Albany Western Australia and the Australian Fisheries Management Authority is already saying it is good to go fishing.Have they not been listening?
75,000 petitioners names
7,000 emails to local MPs and Senators
Letters and meetings from the Stop the Trawler Alliance
Expert Panel reports
Unanswered questions on science and management
Door stop protests to Prime Minister Abbott
Convictions for illegal fishing activities overseasIf this vessel is allowed to stay here and fish the Small Pelagic Fishery it could open the flood gates to more super trawlers and a path of ocean destruction.
We can still stop this huge factory trawler but we need to show the Government we are not giving up.
Please, take a few minutes to call your local politician and tell them how outraged you are.
We have made it easy for you – just click on the link above, put in your post code, and follow the directions.
Your local MPs and Senators are meant to represent you. Why are they welcoming freezer factory trawlers run by foreign companies who break laws?
In 2012 we stopped the super trawler Margiris with help from people like you. We got a result from Parliamentarians who simply could not ignore you. Let’s do it again, and keep Australia’s oceans, fisheries and marine life healthy for the next generation!
Just 1 phone call is worth about 1,000 petition signatures when it comes to getting a message across.
Click here and call your local politicians today!
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority is nervous, the Coalition Government is nervous, because they understand that this is one issue that people from all walks of life across the country have come together on. We do not want this industrialisation of our fisheries or the threats it poses to our local fishing and beautiful marine life. Don’t let them get away with it.
Thanks so much for your ongoing help.
It’s crunch time.
Bec, Erika and the Stop the Trawler crewp.s. Calling your politicians is not as hard as you might think. Simply follow our directions, speak from your heart, and remember your local politician is meant to represent YOU in Government! Ask them why they aren’t? Call them here
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[New post] NSW 2015 – projecting the Legislative Council
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NSW 2015 – projecting the Legislative Council
by Ben Raue
There’s a lot of outstanding questions in the Legislative Council count. We know that the current vote shares will shift, and as they shift, these could have a significant impact on the chances of any party to win a seat.
Using estimates of how many votes are outstanding, and looking at how parties performed in those vote types at the last election, it’s possible to make a projection of how the vote percentages for each party will shift, with the addition of absentee, postal and below-the-line votes over the next few weeks.
There are two main affects that will change the votes for each of the candidates:
- Proportion of the vote received in the ‘special votes’ – mostly postal and absentee votes.
- Proportion of the ‘below-the-line’ vote received for each party.
It is reasonably clear who will win the first twenty seats: nine Coalition, seven Labor, two Greens, one Shooter, and Fred Nile of the CDP.
When factoring in current trends, I can make the following projection for where each party will stand at the end of the count.
Party Current votes Current % Current quotas Projected % Projected quotas Liberal/National 1,633,722 43.42% 9.5431 42.81% 9.4092 Labor 1,185,060 31.50% 6.9223 31.17% 6.8499 Greens 357,345 9.50% 2.0874 10.15% 2.2310 Shooters 143,300 3.81% 0.8371 3.77% 0.8289 Christian Dem. 103,653 2.75% 0.6055 2.74% 0.6022 No Land Tax 66,054 1.76% 0.3858 1.76% 0.3870 Animal Justice 63,060 1.68% 0.3684 1.66% 0.3657 Others 210,307 5.59% 5.93% On current figures, it seems like #10 Coalition candidate Hollie Hughes (a Liberal) is well in front of her main rivals, Peter Jones of No Land Tax and Mark Pearson of Animal Justice.
Yet when you look at the prediction, the Liberal vote drops from 54% of a quota to 41% of a quota, only 0.0222 quota ahead of Jones and 0.0435 quota ahead of Animal Justice.
While the Greens vote picks up substantially, #3 Greens candidate Justin Field would be well behind the leading candidates in this scenario, which already assumes a significant increase in the Greens vote on late counting.
If this projection proved true, the best-case scenario for the left would be that Greens preferences would flow to Animal Justice (as indicated on their how-to-vote) and elected Mark Pearson ahead of Hollie Hughes or Peter Jones.
Of course, if Animal Justice falls just short of winning, it’s possible there could be a legal challenge to the result, because of the 19,000 iVotes which didn’t have an ‘above-the-line’ box for Animal Justice or Outdoor Recreation.
As the count proceeds, most of the above-the-line votes will be counted and the NSWEC will begin conducting their data entry of below-the-line votes, and we will be able to make more precise projections over the coming weeks.
Hopefully it will also be possible, through scrutineers, to get a sense of how preferences are flowing, to determine whether the primary vote figures could be overturned by preferences, in particular whether Animal Justice can win on Greens preferences.
Below the fold, I will run through a bunch of stats I’ve been able to pull together, and explain how I have used these figures to produce my projection.
Ben Raue | April 2, 2015 at 8:15 am | Tags: New South Wales 2015 | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/ppI95-6O2
