Opinion Climate change

[OneGreatClub]

How sad

 

[OneGreatClub]

 

[OneGreatClub]

 

[OneGreatClub]

The anti science party will rule the US

Good luck Florida, you’ll need it when FEMA is gutted too.

 

[OneGreatClub]

 

[Ford Fairlane]

 

[Grave Danger]

When you look at it
MTG's a piece of sh1t

 

[Contested Marx]

Actually a surprise that she isn't a flat earther

 

[OneGreatClub]

Them fires, eh

 

[TazD]

Them fires, eh

Just your average middle of winter neighbourhood busting inferno.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Just your average middle of winter neighbourhood busting inferno.

If Australia stopped adding renewables right now and kept doing the same thing as last year , 40 years to contribute as much CO2 as what China "increased" it last year.
So far China's renewables are only slowing down the increase.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Just your average middle of winter neighbourhood busting inferno.

Meanwhile in the middle of summer in Australia, flash flooding in Queensland.

 

[TazD]

If Australia stopped adding renewables right now and kept doing the same thing as last year , 40 years to contribute as much CO2 as what China "increased" it last year.
So far China's renewables are only slowing down the increase.

Very cool

 

[OneGreatClub]

 

[OneGreatClub]

Yep

 

[OneGreatClub]

 

[OneGreatClub]

 

[EskimoPAFC]

If Australia stopped adding renewables right now and kept doing the same thing as last year , 40 years to contribute as much CO2 as what China "increased" it last year.
So far China's renewables are only slowing down the increase.

A lot of this has to do with how GHGs are attributed. The middle east and big oil controls much of the GHG reporting methodology.

Chinese manufacturing goes off-shore. Do you think they would manufacture as much if people in the West weren't buying their crap on Temu or Alibaba? But despite the fact that the problem is first world consumerism, the GHG responsibility sits with China.

Then you have Saudi and Russian oil going to China. Yet despite the fact its processed in KSA and Russia, again the responsibility sits with Chinese motorists. Where is the consistency?

And don't get me started on rice patties and the GWP100 method for methane comparison.

The world needs to look for holistic solutions where we all recognise our unique responsibilities and opportunities and stop fingerpointing based on lines we drew on maps.

 

[OneGreatClub]

It seems that the rest of the world will, hopefully, speed ahead with renewables while the US returns to the sixties.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

It seems that the rest of the world will, hopefully, speed ahead with renewables while the US returns to the sixties.

Then the planet is stuffed.

USA is responsible for 12% of global emissions.
If we halve our emissions the planet won't notice.
Weren't they meant to follow our good example?

( USA have actually reduced emissions a lot , will they backtrack )?

U.S. CO2 emissions by year 2024| Statista

CO₂ emissions in the U.S. have reduced by more than 20 percent when compared to 2005 levels to less than five GtCO₂ per year.

www.statista.com

 

[TazD]

Then the planet is stuffed.

USA is responsible for 12% of global emissions.
If we halve our emissions the planet won't notice.
Weren't they meant to follow our good example?

( USA have actually reduced emissions a lot , will they backtrack )?

U.S. CO2 emissions by year 2024| Statista

CO₂ emissions in the U.S. have reduced by more than 20 percent when compared to 2005 levels to less than five GtCO₂ per year.

www.statista.com

What exactly is your point?

 

[OneGreatClub]

Then the planet is stuffed.

USA is responsible for 12% of global emissions.
If we halve our emissions the planet won't notice.
Weren't they meant to follow our good example?

( USA have actually reduced emissions a lot , will they backtrack )?

U.S. CO2 emissions by year 2024| Statista

CO₂ emissions in the U.S. have reduced by more than 20 percent when compared to 2005 levels to less than five GtCO₂ per year.

www.statista.com

Trump
Plans to backtrack it seems.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

What exactly is your point?

My point is , that it doesn't really matter what we do in Australia.
If the big players don't play ball, China , USA, Europe, we are doomed.
Seems the Chinese worry more about the planet than the self centred USA right now.

 

[OneGreatClub]

So in some areas people are being priced out of fire and flood insurance or can’t get it at all.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Fading US climate leadership opens door for Australia

Australia could end up with cheaper electric cars and renewed opportunities for green manufacturing as United States' climate leadership goes on hiatus.

ground.news

Electric Vehicle Council head of policy, legal and advocacy Aman Gaur said Australia could end up with cheaper electric cars if fewer vehicles were destined for the US market.

Mr Gaur said some of the vehicles manufacturers had earmarked for the US would end up in Australia, noting adjustments from left-hand drive to right-hand drive was already possible and becoming easier.

Manufacturers would then compete hard for market share, further weighing on prices already falling as more models become available and Australia’s vehicle efficiency standards kick in.

“If we have cheaper electric cars, more, say, middle Australia will be into them, which means that they will save a few thousand dollars a year but it also means we can hit those climate reduction targets as quick as possible,” he told AAP.

Overall, Assoc Prof Downie said Australia’s capacity to reduce its own emissions should be more or less the same under the US policy shifts flagged so far.