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The earth is too hot, and Australians are suffering climate impacts right now. Help us elect climate champions with #VoteClimate campaigns like #KooyongVotes!
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"I don't know" ... reminds me of "I didn't know" or even "I was just following orders". We are hurtling past the point of no return towards a climate that is "inhospitable" to human civilisation. #auspol
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We explore the risk that self-reinforcing feedbacks could push the Earth System toward a planetary threshold that, if crossed, could prevent stabilization of the climate at intermediate temperature rises and cause continued warming on a “Hothouse Earth” pathway even as human emissions are reduced. Crossing the threshold would lead to a much higher global average temperature than any interglacial in the past 1.2 million years and to sea levels significantly higher than at any time in the Holocene. We examine the evidence that such a threshold might exist and where it might be. If the threshold is crossed, the resulting trajectory would likely cause serious disruptions to ecosystems, society, and economies. Collective human action is required to steer the Earth System away from a potential threshold and stabilize it in a habitable interglacial-like state. Addressing these questions requires a deep integration of knowledge from biogeophysical Earth System science with that from the social sciences and humanities ... (5). Integrating the requisite knowledge can be difficult, especially in light of the formidable range of timescales involved. Increasingly, concepts from complex systems analysis provide a framework that unites the diverse fields of inquiry relevant to the Anthropocene (6). Earth System dynamics can be described, studied, and understood in terms of trajectories between alternate states separated by thresholds that are controlled by nonlinear processes, interactions, and feedbacks. Based on this framework, we argue that social and technological trends and decisions occurring over the next decade or two could significantly influence the trajectory of the Earth System for tens to hundreds of thousands of years and potentially lead to conditions that resemble planetary states that were last seen several millions of years ago, conditions that would be inhospitable to current human societies and to many other contemporary species.
April 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Angus would not stand against Gina - image Daily Mail
#TemuMusk still applies
Put Gina last, it's where she puts you
#auspol #AusVotes2025
March 23, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Large scale renewable will be capped at not much more than 2030 levels.
To shoehorn inflexible nuclear into the grid, peoples solar will have to be curtialed.
Your battery is a great idea! There would be grid defections as well.
smartenergy.org.au/solarstopper...
#auspol #VoteClimate #AusVotes2025
February 8, 2025 at 5:12 AM
kooyongvotes.bsky.social
Moderate in what?
Tim Wilson toed the party line 100%, but only had 88% attendance.
What was he doing the rest of the time? We all know don't we. #NationalSecurityRisk
If he got in he would vote 100% with Dutton's hard right agenda.
#DontRiskTimWilson #DontRiskDutton #VoteCommunity #VoteIntegrity
February 3, 2025 at 7:56 AM
kooyongvotes.bsky.social
Very likely to stay Labor.
Although high Greens vote, unlikely to rise past LNP to make a Greens vs Labor contest.
Try looking for either viable Greens or Independent campaigns to help eg Ratnam in Wills or Ryan in Kooyong
January 31, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Surprise! #Dutton aka #TemuTrump is taking heart from his masters MO.
If we vote LNP in #AusVotes2025 we may have to resort to WWII style civilian disobedience to resist diktats that reduce our society to a civil rights wasteland.
Check out this newly popular manual: www.404media.co/declassified...
January 29, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Check out your candidates at they vote for you!
Check out #Dutton
This is what you will get if you vote LNP in #KooyongVotes
#VoteHamerGetDutton

theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/repre...
January 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
kooyongvotes.bsky.social
Dutton is slavishly following Trump's playbook.
Is this what we want for Australia?
Urgent that we get in there to fight for a fair decent democracy.
The people CAN win.
#VoteIntegrity in #AusVotes2025.
Join your local #VoteClimate campaign!
In Melbourne's east? lighterfootprints.org/event/kooyon...
oin us to kick off the Kooyong Votes Climate 2025 election campaign. There is much at stake in this Federal election and we need your help to make sure climate action is high on the list of vote determining issues in Kooyong. Find out how you, your family and friends can be involved in a dynamic, non-partisan, Vote Climate campaign which will include scorecards, street stalls, events, including a Koyoong Candidates Forum, door knocking and more. Putting accurate information into the hands of voters about where the candidates stand on climate is powerful. Be part of it! Join us on Sunday 16 February to hear about our campaign strategy and the winning tactics we plan to roll out. As you know, we run on people power so we can’t bring our plans to fruition without your help. There will be plenty of opportunities for you to get involved. We’d also love to hear your ideas about how our campaign could be even better! #VoteClimate in #AusVotes2025 #auspol https://lighterfootprints.org/event/kooyong-votes-climate-launch/
January 25, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Where is BUGAUP when you need them?
January 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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"Dylan McConnell, an energy systems expert at the University of New South Wales, said this would lead to more than 1bn tonnes of CO2 being pumped into the atmosphere by 2051 under the Coalition’s preferred path."
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#NuclearGasScam #auspol
Under a “step change” scenario in transforming the source of electricity, which is roughly in line with Labor’s plan to have 82% of electricity from renewable energy by 2030, it is forecast about 90% of the country’s remaining coal-fired capacity would shut by 2035. The Coalition assumes about a third of existing coal capacity would shut by that date. Dylan McConnell, an energy systems expert at the University of New South Wales, said this would lead to more than 1bn tonnes of CO2 being pumped into the atmosphere by 2051 under the Coalition’s preferred path. A separate analysis by economist Steven Hamilton, published in the Australian Financial Review, produced a similar result.
December 17, 2024 at 1:11 AM