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Don’t be fooled by the humdrum panel pic. Tonight we’re dreaming large. With @AustFarmInstitu I’m thrilled to join experts from science and industry in drawing a picture of a better future for Australian Agriculture. Here’s a glimpse (in thread form) 👇🏽 
According to soil scientist and @ipcc_ch author Dr Annette Cowie, paying farmers to store carbon in soil is one of the biggest and most crucial ways we can avert the worst parts of dangerous heating and climate disruption. Here she is repping Australian science on the world stage
Some fast facts paint a grim picture:
🌏humans utilise 70% of the world’s ice free land.
🙊25% of that is degraded.
🍃we are losing soil 100x faster than we are replacing it.
But land owners are key to turning this around.
🌏humans utilise 70% of the world’s ice free land.
🙊25% of that is degraded.
🍃we are losing soil 100x faster than we are replacing it.
But land owners are key to turning this around.
From Wangaratta to Canberra.
As we speak, @helenhainesindi is launching the call to all pollies to come together, find #ourcommonground and take real action to secure the future of farming in the hotter, drier Australia we know is coming.
As we speak, @helenhainesindi is launching the call to all pollies to come together, find #ourcommonground and take real action to secure the future of farming in the hotter, drier Australia we know is coming.
“When I talk to farmers in my electorate about climate change, they say the climate has already changed. They are showing leadership, the people in this place must do the same”
@MakeMayoMatter
@MakeMayoMatter
ANU climate scientist Dr Steven Crimp serves up the climate tea. we’ve already seen in Aus:
🌾25% decline in crop productivity
🌞6-fold increase in heatwaves 🌧27% decline in rainfall
🌾25% decline in crop productivity
🌞6-fold increase in heatwaves 🌧27% decline in rainfall
At the Wangaratta show today @helenhainesindi called on the Government to protect #OurCommonGround and develop a strategy for Australian agriculture in a hotter, drier, more extreme climate. On Monday, we take the push to Parliament.
@helenhainesindi The latest projections, released by @CSIRO last week, show by 2030s, the Ovens-Murray region of NE Vic will be up to 1.9 C hotter than it was in the 1990s.
I was born in 1991, so Victoria will have warmed almost 2 degrees in the time it takes me to turn 40.
I was born in 1991, so Victoria will have warmed almost 2 degrees in the time it takes me to turn 40.
@helenhainesindi @CSIRO Rainfall in Vic Alps will plummet. By late century, spring rains in this area could decline by 36%. This the source of half the water in the MDB
Heatwaves could hit 55C in summer & 33C in Winter
Wodonga will have 2 months every yr 35+C
All data from climatechange.vic.gov.au/adapting-to-cl…
Heatwaves could hit 55C in summer & 33C in Winter
Wodonga will have 2 months every yr 35+C
All data from climatechange.vic.gov.au/adapting-to-cl…
