Consider this.
The Daily Standard Deviation for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent: 1989 – 2023 show a “Six Sigma” deviation.
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G7 and Carbon
The Group of Seven western industrialised states (G7) has committed to making their electricity systems “predominantly” carbon-free by 2035, but stopped short of setting a concrete date for exiting coal. Following their meeting in Berlin, the G7 environment, climate and energy ministers said only that they would support “an accelerated global unabated coal phase-out”.
Analysts said the announcement to decarbonise power sectors was a “big step ahead” in the fight against climate change but added that the to-do list for the G7 summit of heads of state and government next month in Bavaria remains long, given that there was also little progress on climate financing and other issues.
Source: Clean Energy Wire
The environment, climate and energy ministers of the Group of Seven western industrialised states (G7) have agreed to largely decarbonise their electricity sectors within 13 years. Following their meeting in Berlin, the ministers said they
commit to a goal of achieving predominantly decarbonised electricity sectors by 2035.
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The Solar Continent?
Source: Geoscience Australia Just sayin…
The Australian continent has the highest solar radiation per square metre of any continent in the world. That’s 10,000 times LARGER than our energy consumption!
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8th of October
Tomorrow [8th of October] is not just another Monday.
The 48th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 48) is convening from 1-5 October 2018, in Incheon, Republic of Korea.
Consider the state of current general policy response to a warming planet and those that offer ‘opinion’ or ‘identity’ as a generational policy vector. We should take Hitch’s advice…
What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.
– Christopher Hitchens
In 2015 governments adopted the Paris Agreement to tackle climate change and invited the IPCC to prepare a special report in 2018 to assess the impacts and related pathways of warming of 1.5oC.
This is due on the 8th of October.
The Special Report on 1.5°C assesses three main themes:
- What would be required to limit warming to 1.5°C (mitigation pathways)
- The impacts of 1.5°C of warming, compared to 2oC and higher
- Strengthening the global response to climate change; mitigation and adaptation options
Some food for thought on the IPCC process.
- The process of preparing an IPCC report involves both scientists and government representatives.
- Ninety-one authors from 40 countries have been involved in the assessment and writing of the Special Report on 1.5 degrees. Chapter teams comprise three Coordinating Lead Authors (CLAs) and a team of Lead Authors, who are responsible for developing the chapter’s content. Review Editors are respon- sible for ensuring the integrity of the review process.
- A further 133 Contributing Authors added their expertise to the report.
- The report has over 6,000 cited references to the scientific literature.
Forthcoming reports
The IPCC Special Report on 1.5oC is due to be released in October 2018, subject to approval. Two other special reports, Climate Change and Land, and the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, will be published in 2019, as will a refinement to the IPCC’s 2006 Guidelines on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories. The three Working Group contributions to the Sixth Assessment Report will be published in 2021, with a Synthesis Report in 2022.
It will be an interesting exercise to observe global, national and state media.
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Not a bad prediction!
Even if I do say so myself!
August 5th 2004 – A Senator Obama addresses the Democratic Convention… I suggested he would be the next Democratic President!
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Not bad ‘Doc’
70 years ago today. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In 1948 Dr Herbert Vere Evatt ( ‘Doc’) was elected President of the General Assembly of the United Nations, the only Australian to have ever held the position.
Dr. H.V. Evatt He presided over the adoption and proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the cornerstone of human rights protection throughout the modern world.
The Doc reflected:
It was the first occasion on which the organised community of nations had made a declaration of human rights and fundamental freedoms…
…millions of people, men, women and children all over the world would turn to it for help, guidance and inspiration.
How are we doing, 70 years on?
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Choices – Real and Imagined
For those that asked.
Graph Source: Harvard – Atlas of Economic Complexity
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Balance and the Climate Guy
John Oliver helping us through the biggest public policy question of all-time.. Beginning with:
1. Do owls exist?
2. Are there hats?
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