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The Australia State of the Climate 2020 is out, by @CSIRO and @BOM_au

Australia, more than ever before, ground zero on climate change and impacts.

Need to step up on mitigation and adapt to the extent is possible.

bit.ly/32Ejod4
Number of extreme hot days
Increase in the number of days with dangerous fire weather
The South of the continent is drying
And the ocean ecosystems don't scape either, marine heatwaves on the rise
In case there is any doubt, observed climate changes are dominated or exclusive due to human activities, that is, due to emissions of greenhouse gases.

Check "Climate without warming trend", meaning the climate we would have had without the additional human greenhouse gases.
And yes, we have the main culprit...

Last year alone, globally we emitted about 43 billion tons CO2 from fossil fuels and land clearing

Below, all emissions by humans and removals by vegetation and oceans. The difference, extra CO2 in the atmosphere that leads to climate change

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5 Jul 19
I am disappointed that Science has allowed an abstract of a, otherwise good, paper to say that planting trees is "our most effective climate change solution to date". This is factually wrong and certainly a distraction. 1/2
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Planting trees is certainly an important part of the climate change mitigation portfolio, but are neither cheaper nor easier to implement than other options. Most importantly, it won't fix the climate problem, albeit it should be part of the solution. 2/2
it is also important to recognise that trees come with litter and soils, so a tree-only focus will always report a partial carbon balance of the true effect on climate, eg, more trees in a future warmer Russia and Canada can also have higher emissions from C-rich soils.
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