A recent study subtitled “A Scientific Assessment of the State of the Planet”, provides a useful and relatively succinct and graphic overview of the physical and biological state of our planet. It is based upon, quoting the study: “The Planetary Boundaries (PBs) – the nine processes that are known to regulate the stability, resilience (ability to absorb disruptions) and life-support functions of our planet.” The … Continue reading Planetary Health Check 2025
01-11-2025: On Sunday the 26th of October, a fierce storm ripped through South-East Queensland while at the same time a tornado struck west of Melbourne in Victoria. Hail battered parts of western Brisbane and Ipswich, with some hailstones being as large as golf balls. 26 000 homes in South-East Queensland lost power,[1] with some waiting more than a day for it to be restored. Some … Continue reading For a Just Transition to “Net Zero”
By Stu Winters 13-07-2025: A major ocean current in the Southern Hemisphere has reversed direction for the first time in recorded history, in what climatologists are calling a “catastrophic” tipping point in the global climate system. The development, which was confirmed by Spanish marine scientists at El Institute de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) in Barcelona, has triggered widespread alarm among climate scientists due to its … Continue reading Southern Ocean Current Reverses for the First Time, Signalling Serious Risk of Climate System Collapse
By Stu Winters A recently published peer-reviewed scientific review article published in the journal “Nature Reviews: Earth and Environment” seeks to show that terrestrial climate change is resulting in unusually rapid and/or high magnitude swings between unusually wet and dry conditions (or vice versa) relative to what is typical for a given location and season. And how such patterns are increasing on an increasingly warming … Continue reading HydroClimate Volatility on a Warming Earth
19-01-2025: At last count, 24 people have been confirmed to have lost their lives[1] in the worst wildfires to ever strike California, or the United States of America itself. The four wildfires, which began on January 7, continue to threaten residences and buildings surrounding Los Angeles. Burnt out houses and other structures may have to be searched in the coming weeks for human remains. Cal … Continue reading California Inferno: The Planet is Burning
08-07-2024: Liberal National Party (LNP) opposition leader Peter Dutton has fired the first shot in the run up to the next Australian federal election, which is due by May next year. On June 19, Dutton outlined the locations of seven proposed sites for the building of nuclear reactors across the states of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia. The LNP proposal … Continue reading For Public Ownership of Energy!
By Stu Winters Employing analysis of sediments from the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, research at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and the Universities of Utrecht and Bristol recently published in Nature Communications provides evidence that a doubling of the amount of CO2 (carbon dioxide) in the atmosphere could cause an increase in the average temperature on earth from 7 … Continue reading CO2 Shows Increased Impact on the Earth’s Warming Climate
By Stu Winters 18-04-2024: The warmest temperature ever recorded in a permanent weather station in the Antarctic has been reached during an unprecedented heatwave in the Concordia-Dome C research station on March 18th, 2022. The unprecedented heat is being attributed to a powerful inflow of warm winds from Australia which brought temperatures over East Antarctica up to 47 degrees C or 85 degrees Fahrenheit, above … Continue reading Unprecedented Heatwave is Smashing Records in the Coldest Location on the Planet
25-03-2024: During March, Extinction Rebellion (XR) protestors descended on Melbourne’s central business district and intentionally blocked traffic at some of the city’s busiest intersections. The actions were deliberately not coordinated with the authorities and the police, as part of their modus operandi of causing as much disruption as possible. XR call for immediate action on climate change and claim that the ecological destruction the planet … Continue reading XR: Right Issue, Wrong Tactics
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