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Australia’s progress towards being a renewable energy superpower
- Progress: Australian states are powering into renewable energy
- Progress: Companies are racing into renewable energy
- Progress: Renewables are supporting energy-intensive industries, e.g. mineral processing
- Progress: Exporting renewable energy
- Progress: Supplying renewable energy equipment & solutions
- Driver: The renewable energy revolution: costs plummeting
- Driver: Australia’s competitive advantages in renewable energy
- Organise a presentation on “Australia’s progress towards the superpower vision”.
- A brainstorm of slogans for promoting climate action.
- Reasons for focussing on a vision and progress.
Evidence of human-caused climate change
- Convergence: the basis for scientific confidence
- Evidence: Humans are causing climate change
- Air Temperatures are increasing
- The area covered by Arctic Ice is decreasing
- The mass of Antarctic Ice is decreasing
- The mass of Greenland Ice is decreasing
- Sea Levels are increasing
- Air temperature and CO2 levels have moved together for 800,000 years
- Temperature, CO2 and Sea Levels move together (post)
- Carbon dioxide levels in the air are soaring
- Methane levels in the air are soaring
- Ocean Acidity is increasing
- The rate of the planet’s heating
- Warming causing warming: Amplifying feedbacks
- Extreme weather
- Warfare emerging from climate change
- Fires intensifying climate change
- BZE Plans for a zero-carbon Australia.
- Mobilise for the climate emergency.
- Find your own ways to push for action to limit climate change.
- Evaluate Installing Solar Panels
- Electric
aeroplanes - Electricity costs: renewables beat coal and gas
- Promoting a vision, plans, benefits, progress and dangers
System dynamics and climate change
- Warming causing warming: Amplifying feedbacks
- Tipping points and amplifying feedback loops
- Migration, Right-wing populism and Climate inaction
- The cyclic logic of paradox
Musical Posts
- “Become an agent of change” by Charlie Mgee
- The “Denial Tango” by “Men with Day Jobs” from Sydney
- Warm is Not Cool: A Musical Protest
Climate
- Australia’s strong sun
- Mega-fires obliterate whole ecosystems
- Glaciers in retreat: The Extreme Ice Survey
- Gulf of Carpentaria mangroves suffer 7,000-hectare dieback
Technology
- How heat pumps work
- Solar plane circles the globe
- A solar-powered winery on the Greek island of Sikinos
Other
- Why one NASA scientist speaks out about climate change: James Hansen: TED talk