Feedback Reigns:
Climate Change Solutions, Climate Evidence, Climate Dangers.
Australia can become a Renewable energy Superpower:
We can win jobs and wealth by exporting renewable energy and becoming a renewable energy superpower.”
Australia glows orange on the map. We have outstanding wind and solar potential, an enduring advantage. We can grasp a prosperous future, with secure jobs. Private industry is already establishing the green-shoots of this transformation, despite the Coalition government demonizing renewables. See Australia as a renewable energy superpower.
The renewables revolution is speeding up.
Push solutions, not fears.
People need a hopeful direction.
We need to stand for something, not just against things.
The great energy disruption
We have seen disruptive technology before, like the moves to digital pictures and mobile phones. We are now in the middle of another much larger disruption. The continuing exponential fall in the costs of solar panels and battery storage is just part of this. Economics alone is driving this disruption, not environmental concerns.
See Tony Seba’s video: The Clean Disruption of Energy & Transportation.
It is this revolution that is opening a window of opportunity for Australia, the opportunity to become a renewable energy superpower.
Evidence of human-caused climate change
Look at the evidence, the key measures of the health of our planet. The evidence is in: humans are causing climate change.
For example, the above orange line shows the movement of carbon dioxide levels in our atmosphere over the last 400,000 years. On the right, you can see how the carbon dioxide level has sky-rocketed during our industrial age.
They are causing our climate emergency.
Solutions to Climate Change
We need to rapidly reduce the soaring levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses. The technology to do this is ready.
See more about solutions to climate change.
Convergence: The Basis for Scientific Confidence
Scientists are certain that we are experiencing human-caused climate change because many independent lines of research converge on this conclusion. See more about Convergence.
The firm scientific consensus is that humans have burned vast amounts of fossil fuel and forest, leading to:
. sky-rocketing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere,
. global warming, and
. climate change.
The critical danger: Amplifying feedbacks
There are many dangers posed by climate change.
The critical danger is that the current global warming could kick off a vicious cycle of escalating temperatures, with warming causing more warming, and this warming causing more warming, and so on, for example, the above phytoplankton feedback loop. See more about this critical danger: amplifying feedbacks.
Climate Change: The Facts
Climate scientists explain the impact of climate change on humans and the natural world. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough for the BBC.
Climate change: The Facts: ABC TV programs: 57 minutes
Take Action
Find your own way to take action pushing for action to limit climate change.
Updated 13 October 2019
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Thank you for this useful compilation of information – VERY useful to have on hand if one is having a debate with a denier of climate change
Regards
Pat Phair
This is brilliant Andrew, love the positive slogans. I do think they are the way to go. Undermines a lot of the antagonistic stance. Perhaps instead of ‘stop Adani’ type comments, there could be calls for a transition program to help fossil fuel employees. That might bring more folk on board.