Don't worry - I'm going to do another thread here, this time with highlights from the 'longer report', which is longer than the summary of the synthesis, but shorter than the as-yet unreleased full synthesis (which are all summaries)
Not that we're doomed to fail, but that the options for success are far more accessible, just and beneficial than we realise
And that we'll let it slip past anyway because it's easy for incumbents to spread lies and protecting profits.
We began this journey being told by Very Serious and Very Smart economists that this is a "wicked problem" and that it makes more sense to go slow on action and rely on distant tech solutions. This was the first big lie, and we're living the damage done by these people right now.
Yet the times where we've ignored these people and ran hard with heavy government intervention, we've had huge success. Wind and solar, for instance, were in reality far more effective, cheaper and simpler than previously thought.
I am vibrating with rage at this story. Australian gas company @JemenaLtd is **PAYING PEOPLE** to buy new fossil fuel appliances instead of electric ones.
What a psychotic scheme. And what a stunning illustration of how shallow and cynical they are.
A quick one for you all - I plugged the new Aus emissions data in my tracking spreadsheet. Historical land-use data has undergone what I think is the biggest revision for some time (if not ever) - makes recent emissions look much lower
This is bad. The data are unreliable
The bundle on the left: total emissions including land-use , with the darkening colours being each new version of the report
On the right - the same, excluding land-use
You can see how land-use changes the narrative so significantly, and the revisions to the data intensify that
These revisions to historical emissions data are **massive**. In terms of scale, it's a reduction in historical emissions data **bigger** than the drop in total transport emissions during the pandemic lockdowns, in 2020 - just from the last version to the most recent.
"Instead, they suggested that the page note the company was using the revenues from this increased oil output to “invest in carbon capture and green fuel technologies"
It's sort of amusing that he's having a go at journalists here, when this is exactly the thinking of Quillette-brained centre-right smugness that Australia's white media loves more than any other group
One of the most consistent trends in Australian media, whenever the issues of diversity, systemic racism and racist media reporting bubble to the surface, is just a stunningly powerful inability to admit there's a problem.
They been warned, many times, for a long time.
I have never encountered a group of people less capable of introspection, and of constructive peer criticism.
**and I work almost solely with the fossil fuel industry**
Many people have been doing this, but here are a few times I've tried to raise the issue of racism in Australian media - and failed entirely.