Expert warns reducing carbon emissions is not enough

We are now beyond the point of simply needing to reduce carbon emissions to prevent catastrophic climate change, according to a leading scientist from the Australian National University (ANU).

Professor Nerilie Abram is the only Australian-based member of a new international scientific body, the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG).

“People and ecosystems are already suffering from the impacts of climate change across the world, and these impacts will worsen unless we move quickly to radically reduce global greenhouse gas emissions,” Prof. Abram said.

“But we’ve also let this problem get to the point where rapid emission reductions alone won’t be enough – we also need to develop ways to remove large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and to preserve critical parts of the Earth system while we still can.”   

The CCAG has been launched to provide independent expert advice and guidance to global leaders as they seek further commitments and actions to combat the climate crisis.

The group, chaired by Sir David King, the former UK Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor, comprises 14 world-leading experts from a range of climate related disciplines. It believes that despite mounting evidence, not enough is being done to mitigate the impacts of climate change.

CCAG is calling on international decision makers to collaborate and take action in three key areas:

Reduce: Current targets for greenhouse gas emissions reduction are not enough. Nations need to triple their emissions-cutting pledges to limit the effects of the climate crisis.

Remove: We need large-scale investment to develop and scale techniques to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

Repair: Deep research is needed to explore and investigate safe methods and technologies to repair parts of our damaged climate systems.

The group will offer leading scientific advice in an open and transparent format to governments, stakeholders, and the public with the aim of agitating for real and significant global commitments required to make these changes.

Chair of CCAG, Sir David King said: “I believe we have five years left to get on top of this global problem. We began talking seriously about climate change in 1992, yet we are now in a worse position with growing emissions and rising risks – watching greenhouse gases increase year after year.

“We need to take action now and that is exactly what CCAG is set up to do. Each member is a world leading expert, with the knowledge and capabilities to address politicians, financial institutions, and members of the public to take real, tangible actions towards global climate change mitigation and repair for our future generations.”

Are you worried about the future your grandchildren will inherit? Are you disappointed by the lack of action from Australian politicians?

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I have no grand kids but I do worry about the planet and the way it is/has been treated -- and I do wish we would all wake up and do the right thing --however it makes me wonder just what the hell can be done about the bombs/rockets/all war time type stuff,   sometimes nuclear,  also the way war ships etc are disposed of (mostly sunk) and also the likes of the nuclear plants that are leaking and will do so for years to come --how the hell do we fix those problems!?

No one seems to speak about these things

I also care about the wild life and other life even the insects as  they ALL have a place

Cattle burp and fart methane, which is many times stronger greenhouse gas than CO2.

Millions of people can take immediate action by reducing their consumption of meat,

and for that matter, their consumption of food in general. Act locally, think long, stand strong.

Well humans also fart and there are more humans than cows

PlanB, not in the Australian context.  Our cattle herd numbers approximately the same as our human population.  Sheep are also ruminants and their numbers are estimated to be over 60 million.

The larger proportion of the methane attributed to the ruminants comes from burps and less from flatulence.

It is claimed by some in the climate change corner that methane is up to 30 times more effective as a greenhouse gas, than carbon dioxide.  However, by some estimates that I have come across, the actual amount present in the atmosphere is less than a one hundredth of the carbon dioxide.

PAHAAAARP  PHUUUT NEEEEP

Firstly there is NO CLIMATE EMERGENCY 

It's all made up by the same small group of people that are pushing the genocide vaccines.

Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere is absolutely essential to all life on Earth. 

Why? Because plants use it, through photosynthesis to make Oxygen. 

Oxygen is required by all animal life on Earth, including humans obviously.

By reducing carbon emissions we are disrupting the Carbon Cycle which is nature's way of recycling carbon locked in fossil fuels.

There is very little CO2 in the atmosphere now (0.04%) and the madmen want to reduce it even more for one reason only and that is profits made from carbon taxes.  If you read the restrictions planned by the NWO you will be horrified.

Real science shows CO2 has no effect on the climate. The climate is controlled by the SUN over which humans have no control whatsoever.  Real science shows that CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere were far higher in bygone eras millions of years ago, when plant life flourished and allowed the enormous growth of animal life.  Where do you think all of the oil, coal and gas came from? It was long ago when these forests were covered over and buried by complex geological processes.

Countries following this totally false pathway of climate alarm are selling themselves out the the NWO psychopaths.

In the meantime India, China and Russia are forging ahead with their fossil fuel burning power plants with total disregard to the Paris accord.  They know this pathetic attempt to control fossil fuels has no basis in real science. 

All that said I am concerned about plastic pollution of the oceans. Far more effort is needed to combat this problem.

 

 

There is CLEARLY a climate problem, pretending there isn't is madness.

The worsening bush fires, floods, and even COVID are all symptomatic of our belief that our current way of life is sustainable.  It is not.

We need to go back to "the old days", when world travel was slower and countries were mostly self sufficient.

We can plant trees to cool our cities.

We can collect our own rainwater, make our own electricity (to run homes AND cars), grow some food, aim to eat less meat.

And consider if that $2 shop item will last, or will it just break and be land fill in a few uses?  Buy quality!! 

Support locals, buy Australian when you can. 

 

 

 

zerojet is 100% correct.

Remember - Carbon dioxide is not even 1 per cent of the air around us - just 0.04%

Bushfires are caused by build up of dead tree material that the greens won't allow us to burn back and if you look back there have been many bushfires worse than the ones a year ago - around 10 years ago, in 1950, in 1939 and many back beyond that. The Aborigines used to keep the fires in check by back burning. Floods and Covid have no relationship to carbon dioxide.  And even the Australian Bureau of Meteorology agrees that there has only been one degree of warming over the past 100 years and Australia's chief scientist agrees that all our money spent on renewables will make not one bit of difference to the climate. That money could be spent on health and water conservation and other activities which would actually DO some good, rather than just posturing.

People just love the drama, governments love to make us think they can control us and renewables manufacturers love the money. It's one of the greatest hoaxes of all time and there is so much scientific evidence available to anyone who chooses to look past the mainstream media.

zerojet is 100% correct.

Remember - Carbon dioxide is not even 1 per cent of the air around us - just 0.04%

Bushfires are caused by build up of dead tree material that the greens won't allow us to burn back and if you look back there have been many bushfires worse than the ones a year ago - around 10 years ago, in 1950, in 1939 and many back beyond that. The Aborigines used to keep the fires in check by back burning. Floods and Covid have no relationship to carbon dioxide.  And even the Australian Bureau of Meteorology agrees that there has only been one degree of warming over the past 100 years and Australia's chief scientist agrees that all our money spent on renewables will make not one bit of difference to the climate. That money could be spent on health and water conservation and other activities which would actually DO some good, rather than just posturing.

People just love the drama, governments love to make us think they can control us and renewables manufacturers love the money. It's one of the greatest hoaxes of all time and there is so much scientific evidence available to anyone who chooses to look past the mainstream media.

There is a very good documentary on Netflix called "Seaspiracy" Puts a new light on our oceans, plastics, wastes etc as well as the related industries. Well worth the watch.

If we stop eating meat, what do we do with the surplus cattle, chickens, sheep, etc.? Wipe them from the face of the earth?!

xerojet is correct, too many people are too dumb to see the big picture staring them in the face, all making assumptions without reading the facts.

Wind turbines are a massive waste of money including the cost of maintenance with maximum use-by-date of only 20 years, at $3-4 million each, maintenance, $5,000.00 each trip, several as components fail.
1)- They never have and never will recoup the costs of manufacture and installation, then the stupidity is, from mining the ore with diesel-powered machinery, transport with diesel-powered trucks, trains, ships, then manufactured in factories using electricity from coal-fired generators, that is bull-sh--t about save the environment.
The same with battery-powered cars made by the same conditions as 1)- above, bull-sh---t, save the environment.
Solar panels are made from, transported with, manufactured using, all the above same as 1)-
Use the Internet and check the thousands of wind turbines being buried in the ground in America, less that 20 years used-by date, and the metal used to make them, no-one wants them, the scrap-yards are full with billions of household appliances, use-by-date finished, began life as Number 1) above.
In order to Save The Environment and watch the beginning of daily Climate Changes, every person on Earth would have to live in caves, no-one can have a fire for cooking, the smoke would cause a different climate change and create CO2, which people breathe out anyway.

Yes we have carbon monoxide and we need it for the planet AND for the trees and other vegetation,  BUT we have cut down so many tree   (the lungs of the earth)   right through the world even in the Amazon that breath in the carbon monoxide and let out oxygen, that we need -- we have to plant more trees everywhere and stop ruining the rain Forrest of the Amazon.

 

We also have to stop using other items/chemicals, etc that are ruining the planet.

PlanB, oops. You need to proof read your contribution.  Carbon monoxide is an extremely dangerous odourless and colourless gas that kills through displacing the oxygen in the blood stream by creating carboxyhaemaglobin.  It is usually generated in combustion with a shortage of oxygen (as happens when a gas heater is used in a closed room in winter, or a leak in the exhaust manifold of an internal combustion engine).

The gas that you are probably meaning to refer to is Carbon dioxide.  Another odourless and colourless gas.  When it kills it is by displacing oxygen in the atmosphere.

It is the gas that plants "inhale" while photosynthesising in the presence of light and "exhale" during periods of darkness.  In spite of what we were taught for generations, rainforests are not "the lungs of the earth", that job is handled by the phytoplankton in the oceans.  The oceans produce arounnd 80% of the respirable oxygen in the atmosphere (comprised of approximately 80% nitrogen and 20% oxygen and less than 1% of other trace gases, including argon, xenon, ozone, water vapour and carbon dioxide).

Thanks to increased levels of water vapour and carbon dioxide such areas as the southern Sahara are greening and encroaching into what had been arid desert for centuries.

Please tell us which specific chemicals we need to be wary of and are ruining the planet?

Thanks, couldabeen, I stand corrected, I should have said carbon dioxide 

 

 

I always say the older I get (over 70) the more normal the weather and climate is, it's cyclical and if you look out of your windows the air has never been cleaner, we can see further with clear air than even I can remember in and around industrial cities and across the country.

All that is except if you go to china, which is badly polluted the air is unbreathable. I have been there and I know as anybody who has been there will attest to.

Do you know if we mine coal and sell it to china, the pollution it creates in china goes on Australia's ledger for carbon production. That is why china and other uneducated countries say that Australia has a bigger carbon production per head of population that any other country in the world.

Why does our china loving government not step in and put a stop to these lies.

When we have the big red star on the corner of our flag you will all understand.

It would be interesting to know the credentials and histories of the 14 "world leading experts" on the CCAG.  Exactly  how independent and by who's metric is it "expert"?

As others have commented, the levels of Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere remain at trace levels.  The global ecosystems react slowly in gross terms to changes in levels when the level of the gas was no more than 0.04% of the atmosphere.

In spite of the hysteria from certain activist groups, neither Australia nor the world are seeing measurable increases in events such as bush fires, cyclones and tornadoes, tidal waves and floods.  The island nations in the Pacific and Indian Oceans that were claiming over a decade ago that rising sea levels would completely inundate them within a decade are still quite habitable and their main challenges come from over-population brought about by better healthcare provided by wealthy western nations.

The condition of the southern hemisphere atmosphere is quite different to that of the northern hemisphere over the industrial areas of the United States, western Europe and China.  India has it's own problems.  The significant contamination of those skies with particulates is a very different aspect to the trace gas essential to maintaining life on this planet.

A very experienced Australian geologist once showed that our exposed limestone soils and cliffs in South Australia and western Victoria have the ability to completely absorb an amount of carbon dioxide at least equal to what is produced by human activities within our country.  What was not included were the significant areas in the Queensland Gulf Country that also absorb such gases as a natural process.

Separate from that, the forests along the eastern seaboard extending from Iron Range on Cape York down and around to Cape Otway and extending 200 kilometres inland can also absorb CO2 to the amount produced by human activity within this country.  However, due to an international equalising agreement, because nearly all of these forests are contained within National Parks, Nature Reserves, Forestry Reserves and Native Title Areas, they are not counted for the purposes of GHG amelioration purposes.  The phytoplanckton in the 200 km EEZ of the surrounding oceans and seas also absorb CO2 and release O2 to the benefit of the clean southern hemisphere skies.

What all of us must be wary of and fight to prevent, is foreign political pressures being forced on Australia that may be suitable for a State in India or a province in China, or even an industrial valley in Germany or the heart of Paris, but completely inappropriate to Australia.  Our skies are not their skies and in turn, theirs are not ours.  Cleaning our skies will have no effect what so ever in clearing the sky over Beijing or Karachi or Mexico City.

Couldabeen, you are correct, but all the 'climate authoritarians' are hell-bent on spreading their ficticious garbage all over the world.
One reads that CO2 from vehicles is adding to the 'greehouse gas problem', then why are trees and plants thriving beside roads and highways.

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