ok i ride a road bike.
And i have a wahoo trainer which is cool.
Would be awesome if you could invent a bike that plugs in and generates energy while your riding.
Turns out its not worth the effort.
They are not baffled for the reasons you think they are
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Any of them operating underwater fo 25 years at a time?
Sea water and steel
Interesting to note that after the renewable energy shills have got their government subsidies and their ratbag ideas have disintegrated in a screaming pile of â â â â they bugger off to be with their money in Swiss bank accounts leaving to local councils to clean up their crap.
Whatever happened to that one like a snake that sank off the WA coast.
Of course there was that proposed 25km long barricade across the Bristol channel to provide a constant flow of water for underwater turbines.
That went nowhere just like the other 6 proposals.
Oh yes they are.
You have no idea of the number of educated idiots there are running around loose without supervisionâŚ
Two bob experts as my father called them, and he was nearly killed by one.
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And they get their knickers in a knot if you donât call them Doctor.
Got a graph?
Good news everyone, Australiaâs carbon emissions are hitting some truly historic levels!
What? Historically HIGH levels you say? But, but, but ⌠I thought our dedicatied and conscientious government was busy taking STRONG DIRECT ACTION to reduce emissions IN A STRONG DIRECT FAIR DINKUM WAY.
FFS.
Itâs always worth remembering that even under the feeble and insufficient Paris Agreement that Abbot signed up to, Australia has committed to reducing our emissions by 26% at least by 2030. Instead, weâre still skyrocketing.
And this graph doesnât even talk about land clearing emissions, which have ballooned as the Libs and Nats have made it known to their mates in Qld that farmers can bulldoze basically any bush they want no matter what the law says, and the govt will find an excuse not to enforce.
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Nah. I was told by our PM weâre going to meet our obligations âin a canterâ. I donât know why heâd lie about something like that.
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What do we honestly expect when the people in government have personal financial investments in mining and power companies?
Weâve got issues with business people running the country, and have more emotional investment in their personal bank accounts than the future of the country.
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YAYY!! Another record for OZ!
The Greenhouse Champions of the World!!
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Also announced on the eve of both AFL and NRL GFsâŚlol
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Not even close.
4 billion tonnes and increasing.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-24/china-is-adding-more-coal-capacity
Yes! GO CHINA!!
As long as theyâre winning we donât look anywhere near as bad.
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But, but⌠no greenhouse emissions are influencing climate change.
Wait, wait! Maybe they are. A little tiny bit.
Wrong thread
Cantering towards destruction
Kaye Lee
Whoever wins the next election is going to face a monumental task to reduce our emissions in order to tackle the existential threat posed by climate change.
In one way, it would serve Scott Morrison right to have to face the consequences of his lies. But the country cannot afford someone who thinks prayer is the answer to the drought.
Our Prime Minister, the man charged with making the decisions on how to keep us safe, is a bald-faced liar.
When Barrie Cassidy asked ProMo on what he had based his claim that we would meet our Paris emissions target âin a canterâ, we were subjected to the greatest load of waffle.
ââŚone swallow doesnât make a summer, and I know that plenty of people will leap on that and say that you need to do X and Y and use those numbers for that purpose, but it means that weâre going to meet Kyoto 2 and weâll smash that number. We smashed Kyoto 1.â
Aside from the fact that Kyoto 1 allowed us to actually increase our emissions by 8%, and that the only way we might meet Kyoto 2 is by fancy accounting practices, ProMo is deliberately and knowingly falsifying the information his own departments are giving him.
According to the report on Australiaâs emissions projections produced by the Department of the Environment and Energy in December last year, âTotal emissions in 2030 are projected to be 570 Mt CO2-e, which is 5 per cent below 2005 levels.â
Hang on. Werenât we supposed to be cantering past a 26% reduction?
Far from increasing our modest 2030 target, as most of the rest of the developed world is doing, the report further states that âemissions in 2030 are projected to grow by 3.5 per cent above 2020 levels.â
Huh? How is a projected growth in emissions being sold as us meeting our commitments to reduce them?
Every five years, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) produces a national report on the status of Australiaâs forests. This is extremely important as the vast majority of our claimed reductions are coming from the land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) sector (an emissions reduction of 114.9% since 1990 supposedly).
According to the 2013 State of the Forests report, âThe best available source of such data is currently satellite imagery interpreted for Australiaâs National Greenhouse Gas Inventory,â yet the latest National Greenhouse Gas Inventory report says â Processed satellite images are not yet available to support the calculation of emissions estimates for 2017 and 2018 .â
But that hasnât stopped them from claiming even more reductions.
In 2016, a group of leading ecologists voiced their alarm at new data which showed the clearing of 296,000 hectares of forest in 2013-14. This was three times higher than in 2008-09, kicking Australia up the list as one of the worldâs forest-clearing pariahs. Then Queenslandâs Department of Science report on land cover change, published in September 2017 showed a staggering 395,000ha of clearing for 2015-16: a 133 per cent increase on 2014-15.
Alarmingly, land clearing in the Great Barrier Reef catchment in the year to June 2017 was at its second highest level in 10 years. 152,000 hectares were cleared in the catchment last year, marginally less than the amount cleared in 2015/16.
That takes the total land cleared in the catchment in the last five years to 770,000 hectares â an area about three times as large as the ACT
When asked about these figures, Environment Minister Melissa Price said it was mainly a state issue and that net land sector emissions had declined since 2004/05, ignoring the fact that, in May, the Federal government approved the bulldozing of nearly 2,000 hectares of forest on Cape Yorkâs Kingvale Station despite warnings that the clearing would add to the sediment load running onto the Great Barrier Reef.
âThis declining trend reflects lower emissions from forest clearing and native forest harvesting, and more sequestration in regrowing forests,â Ms Price said in a statement. âWe know climate change is a big issue for the Reef and this is why we have invested more than $400 million to help protect the reef through the Great Barrier Reef Foundation.â
Except the GBRF have specifically stated that they will have nothing to say, let alone do, about climate change.
When asked whether the foundation would be willing to lobby governments for policies to reduce emissions, land clearing and stopping coalmines, head of the GBRF Ms Marsden said: âItâs absolutely not in our strategic view at the moment.â Their goal is âboosting the Reefâs resilience so it can bounce back from and survive challenges like a changing climate and water quality issues.â
Ms Price has also heralded a return to Direct Action, once again ignoring the fact that just one year of clearing has removed more trees than the bulk of 20 million trees painstakingly planted, at a cost of A$50 million.
As Greg Jericho points out, including LULUCF figures in our emissions reduction targets is âdisgracefulâ because we used years when there was very high land-clearing as our base years and are allowed to âbank improvements merely due to us being less bad now than we were, not because we have actually improved our emissions.â
What is even more disgraceful is the lies being told.
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âFark you, science. Maybe by the time coal has totally farked the planet we might have come up with technology that makes coal clean.â
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Interesting last paragraphs. Emissions reductions would be down year in year except the massive jump in LNG exports has screwed us.
âIâm not a scientist and I havenât read the report but itâs wrong.â
Whoâd guess this is something a former lawyer would use as an argument? No?
How about an Environment minister? Yeah, surely satire.
Then thereâs the pearler about getting rid of coal by 2050 as a âlong bowâ but âclean coalâ is absolutely going to become a thing somehow. Again, former lawyer. Current environment minister. I know, satire, right?
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Iâve been hearing about clean coal for more than 20 years and that coal stations could be rebuilt to achieve this. Whereâs the evidence?
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