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wjfox wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 9:45 am :x :evil: :roll:

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Morrison Government rejects key COP26 objectives hours after agreeing to them in Glasgow

Monday, November 15, 2021

The Glasgow climate summit has issued a final communique which calls on countries to phase down coal and to increase their formal 2030 targets by next year.

Energy Minister Angus Taylor has confirmed that the Morrison Government won't be doing either because it wouldn't be in Australia's national interest.

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/pr ... t/13631082
A lot of our government don't believe in climate change. The government is a coalition between the Liberal party and the National party. As far as I am aware the nationals were having a party debate on if climate change exists and the leader of the nationals think's it doesn't exist.

Edit I should say I basically ignore Australian news now so this could have changed.
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‘It’s like hunting aliens’: Inside the Town Besieged by Armadillos
by Oliver Milman
November 15, 2021

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... armadillos

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(The Guardian) In the pitch dark, Jason Bullard adroitly shoulders his rifle and levels it at the object. “That looks like one!” he mutters. It turns out to be a fuse box. Another candidate, again aimed at with the gun, reveals itself as a rock.

In this town besieged by armadillos, anything with a passing similarity to the armored nemesis is under suspicion.

Bullard, an affable man in a camouflaged shirt, with a sonorous voice and prodigious beard, has rapidly gone from never seeing an armadillo in his bucolic corner of western North Carolina to killing 15 of them last year. In just the last two weeks, he has dispatched eight of the animals.

Homeowners, perturbed at their lawns being torn up by the newly arrived mammals, initially deputized Bullard as a sort of armadillo bounty hunter, handing him $100 for every dead carcass he produced. But armadillos have wreaked such horticultural havoc that dozens of people in and around Sapphire, North Carolina, now have Bullard on a retainer, allowing him to prowl around their properties at night, armed, in the hope of shooting the culprits.
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An emerging theory for this advance of armadillos is the climate crisis. The animals dislike freezing conditions and global heating is making winters milder, turning northern parts of the US more armadillo-friendly. Around Sapphire, the armadillos happily root around in the dirt with their snouts and claws, feasting on insects at elevations above 4,000ft. “We just don’t have those really cold winters any more and I’m sure that’s helped them,” said Olfenbuttel.
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Sociology Can Help the Climate Crisis
by Jill Richardson
November 17, 2021

https://otherwords.org/sociology-can-he ... te-crisis/

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(Other Words) The recent COP26 climate summit in Glasgow was the 26th attempt to get the nations of the world to fix the climate crisis. During the summit, the Washington Post reported that countries have been under-reporting their emissions, so the negotiations are based on “flawed data.”

We’ve known about the climate crisis for decades. But in these ways and more, we’ve seen a painful, frustrating failure to meaningfully coordinate action on global scale. Still, that doesn’t have to mean that real cooperation is doomed to failure.

Much of the world mobilized in a matter of weeks, radically altering everyday life, to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic. We could do the same for climate — and sociology can help us figure out how.

Sociologist Kari Marie Norgaard advocates bringing sociologists to the table on climate change, in addition to the natural scientists, economists, and psychologists who usually play the roles of experts.

Climate change is caused by people acting in groups, after all, and sociology is the study of people acting in groups. We can study questions like: Why are people causing climate change, really? Why won’t people do enough about it? And how can we get people to do more about it?
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Polluting greenhouse gases being sold online and smuggled to UK

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A BBC investigation has uncovered a black market in highly polluting greenhouse gases being smuggled into the UK from Eastern Europe.

The gases - hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) - are advertised and sold illegally via social media and the BBC found a trader suggesting smuggling them on coaches.

HFCs are widely used in fridges, air conditioning and aerosol sprays.

The EU and UK are limiting their use and want to eventually phase them out in favour of cleaner alternatives.

But older machinery still runs on the most polluting HFCs - which has led to a black market worth millions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59061805
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$100M XPRIZE for carbon removal

https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk

XPRIZE Carbon Removal is aimed at tackling the biggest threat facing humanity - fighting climate change and rebalancing Earth’s carbon cycle. Funded by Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation, this $100M competition is the largest incentive prize in history, an extraordinary milestone.‎

The climate math is becoming clear that we will need gigaton-scale carbon removal in the coming decades to avoid the worst effects of climate change. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates the need at approximately 10 gigatonnes of net CO2 removal per year by the year 2050 in order to keep global temperature rise under 1.5 or 2C. As governments, companies, investors, and entrepreneurs make plans to meet this challenge, it is clear that we will need a range of carbon removal solutions to be proven through demonstration and deployment to complement work that is already underway. If humanity continues on a business-as-usual path, the global average temperature could increase 6˚(C) by the year 2100.

This four-year global competition invites innovators and teams from anywhere on the planet to create and demonstrate solutions that can pull carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere or oceans, and sequester it durably and sustainably. To win the grand prize, teams must demonstrate a working solution at a scale of at least 1000 tonnes removed per year; model their costs at a scale of 1 million tonnes per year; and show a pathway to achieving a scale of gigatonnes per year in future.

Any carbon negative solution is eligible: nature-based, direct air capture, oceans, mineralization, or anything else that achieves net negative emissions, sequesters CO2 durably, and show a sustainable path to achieving low cost at gigatonne scale.
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I assure you that my comment the other day was serendipitous not copying. I came to this idea independently and am very happy to see the idea of an ecocide/genocide trial entering the collective discussion. The use of the nuremberg trials as a historical analogue is useful both because it implies substantive action but also because it fits well within the range of legal free speech and has historical precedent in living memory.

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Christopher Gary Packham CBE (born 4 May 1961) is an English naturalist, nature photographer, television presenter and author, best known for his television work including the CBBC children's nature series The Really Wild Show from 1986 to 1995. He has also presented the BBC nature series Springwatch, including Autumnwatch and Winterwatch, since 2009.
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To know is essentially the same as not knowing. The only thing that occurs is the rearrangement of atoms in your brain.
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