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Bizarre really. After a summer of pressure over the Morrison government's inaction on climate change, the government finally unveils the bilateral with NSW that was meant to be announced mid-December but was delayed by Angus controversy, and dresses it up as a brown deal #auspol
It is a brown deal in some respects. But is is also expected to lead to emissions reductions of 35% by 2030 in NSW. Yet nobody is foregrounding that. You'd laugh, if this was actually funny #auspol
Also a significant missing piece of this puzzle: what happens post Liddell #auspol
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Katharine Murphy
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Another example from today's #qt Morrison: "Hazard reduction is important, if not more important,
than emissions reduction, when it comes to protecting people from fire and hotter, dryer longer summers in the future". Let's look at that statement quickly.
The first thing to say to that is it is ALL important. Mitigation. Harm minimisation. Adaptation. It's all got to happen. Now you can say hazard reduction is most important if you like, even though that's a value judgment, not a fact.
But the problem with hazard reduction is it has become much harder to do in an environment where climate change is making the environment hotter and drier. It is becoming more dangerous to carry out harm minimisation. So this cycle feeds itself. It's all connected.
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Katharine Murphy
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From the ANAO: "The guidelines published on 2 August 2018 identified that the Minister would approve CSIG funding, with her decisions to be informed by recommendations from an assessment panel that had been endorsed by the Sport Australia board."
"Throughout the granting process all parties acted as if the Minister was able to be the approver. No section 11 directions were issued to Sport Australia in 2018–19".
"In the absence of a section 11 direction, there was no legal authority evident to the ANAO under which the Minister was able to be the approver of CSIG program grants to be paid from the money of Sport Australia".
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Katharine Murphy
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A few quick thoughts on leadership spills. After more than ten years of this tiresome bullshit, there are a few things to learn I reckon. If a challenger needs to arrive breathlessly to declare intent, they likely don’t have the numbers.
If other people have to resign from the front bench to create the appearance of a stampede, the insurgent is likely behind, not in front. They have a need to build momentum with colleagues. Another buyer beware clue.
There will be exceptions to these observations & I’m not saying that I knew McCormack would hold Joyce out. I didn’t know who would win, and TBH I think we ought to think about getting out of the predictions business, because it doesn’t help. Just feeds the bullshit complex.
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💧simon holmes à court
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👇THREAD on @ScottMorrisonMP and #climate

no doubt the prime minister will have noticed the shift in the public mood, and the media, around climate change.

“climate and the environment” is literally top of mind.

afr.com/politics/feder…
morrison can implore us not to discuss climate change while the country is on fire, but as the fire chiefs have tried to tell him, we have months of fires ahead of us — this is the new normal.

unless australia gets a lucky break, this fire season is morrison’s "port arthur".
if @ScottMorrisonMP seeks to be a great PM, he needs to rapidly pivot to real #climate leadership — meaningful words and meaningful deeds.

to be meaningful:
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Sophie Lewis
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Here's a brief summary of some of the our Australian #climate extremes research since 2013, a year that has nothing to do with any particular events, government or ideology
Australia's then record hot 2012/2013 summer was made substantially more likely because of climate change agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
Night time temperature increasing faster than day time temperature, a key fingerprint of climate change, though this feature is not well modelled agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
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Dr Kristina Hill 🏳️‍🌈
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Finally had a minute to read this. Lots of thoughts. First, I agree with most of it, and have been saying the same thing for years - that big splashy design firms exaggerate the value of their work re #climate, a lot. Thread.
placesjournal.org/article/design… via @PlacesJournal @joobilly
But the tone is so busy being snarky about that, and about @joobilly's idea that no landscape architects understand movement politics, that it erases an enormous amount of good work and writing by others in the field - as if we don't exist. 2/n
I said the same thing about Waldheim's version of landscape urbanism. This is turning into a theme. Are you a white guy who wants to criticize landscape architecture for not being more relevant? Try looking at the work of women in this field! HELLOOOOOOOO out there! 3/n
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Patrick Galey
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Just returned from Bangkok, where nations made little progress towards finalising the Paris agreement on climate change that aims to limit global temperature rises over the next 80 years.

It was my first @UN #climate change rodeo and there were a few things I wasn't aware of
Under Paris, countries agreed to a fairly detailed set of promises to keep global temperature rises under 2C by 2100.

It was the first time all nations - both developed and developing economies - signed up to the same set of climate rules. But they weren't binding
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Jason Mark
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Late last night veteran #climate journalist @Revkin asked some sharp questions about @Sierra_Magazine’s “The Case for Climate Reparations,” spurred by an appreciative post from NYC Chief Resilience Officer @dzarrilli. Here’s my response …
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Peter Gleick
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Short thread.
1. I didn't realize how badly Trump has eviscerated access to federal #climate data, so I went and looked at the USGS site.
2. In December, there were 5,932 climate science items linked there (9 were just pictures). Today there are 416 and 292 are just pictures.
3. In December 2016, 320 of those items were links to #climate data. Today, 0 links to data. 5,271 were web links. Now, 0 web links.
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