Climate ActionCentre

A resource centre supporting climate action groups and activism in Victoria, Australia

[David Spratt @djspratt]

“Saving" the Great Barrier Reef? Coral pioneer Charlie Veron told Royal Society in 2009: "The safe level of atmospheric CO2 for #coral reefs is ~320 ppm (and) sets the safe limit for a healthy planet during a time of abrupt #climate change.” https://t.co/mV6K5mqkZs

[David Spratt @djspratt]

UN Secretary General António Guterres on 10 September: “We face a direct existential threat” on #climate warming for “the emergency we face”, but Australia’s big climate campaign groups refuse to say so. This is getting embarrassing. https://t.co/j51fGnAbE5

[David Spratt @djspratt]

Political reality must be grounded in physical reality or it’s completely useless. When the real #climate risks are understated, it’s time to ask “What lies beneath”. Download the inside story #whatliesbeneath. https://t.co/aJIL6093Pj @breakthroughccr

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

@scook2214 I found this piece by @djspratt to be really excellent: https://t.co/6pl9M6vDIr

[David Spratt @djspratt]

IPCC's political fix on 1.5°C carbon budget and understating the #climate task at hand will undermine its credibility. https://t.co/GBpeIRdHwU

[David Spratt @djspratt]

New #climate paper out today reports domino-effect could push Earth into a ‘hothouse’ state if we hit 2C. Pity some of the tipping points are already in progress! IPCC reports don’t incorporate most of them, but media coverage so far has been silent on this failure.

[David Spratt @djspratt]

Minerals Council still dangerously wrong on coal and #climate, says former senior coal executive Ian Dunlop https://t.co/AjLZHWd23b

[David Spratt @djspratt]

Love to hear from @AusConservation & other reef campaigners on this research showing Barrier Reef now likely to experience hotter waters similar to 2016 bleaching one year in three on average. Thus only by REDUCING the CURRENT level of #climate warming of 1.1C can it be saved.

[David Spratt @djspratt]

An ironic impact of record-busting #climate heatwave in Europe: high-tech Science Centre roof 'melts' on hottest ever June day in Glasgow.
https://t.co/Q4DNEsyPRa

[David Spratt @djspratt]

Understanding and speaking out about the existential risks of #climate warming is growing. This on anniversary of Hansen testimony from Stefan Rahmstorf
@rahmstorf : “If climate change was an urgent problem in 1988, it’s now an emergency.” https://t.co/jFyw7jJ8ZL

[David Spratt @djspratt]

Still no answers from Australian #climate minister on the existential threats of a hotter Earth: 30 days since this question was asked of @JoshFrydenberg in parliament, it remains unanswered. It’s hard not to wonder whether he has any.

[David Spratt @djspratt]

So who is winning the global energy race, when existential #climate warming risks demand rapid decarbonisation - coal, gas, coal, renewables? Warning: The evidence is shocking. https://t.co/QoB0xhrm2R

[David Spratt @djspratt]

I am rarely shocked by #Climate news that observations are worse than projections, but news that #Antarctic ice mass loss has QUADRUPLED in 20 years is truly mind boggling and spot on Jim Hansen’s predicted path of several metres of sea level rise by 2100. https://t.co/Ni64g33xQo

[David Spratt @djspratt]

With no carbon budget left for 1.5C #climate target, from now on “what goes up must come down” - It's time for a carbon drawdown budget, too. https://t.co/EN2Bat3zAT

[David Spratt @djspratt]

It's time to start talking about the fiduciary responsibility of politicians and bureaucrats in the era of existential #climate risks. By Ian T Dunlop. https://t.co/d4MFcC63wh

[David Spratt @djspratt]

And these #climate carbon budgets assume both overshoot to 2C followed by mythical BECCS cooling, and significant risk of exceeding the target. From a risk averse viewpoint there is no carbon budget for 1.5C. Full stop. And we will actually be at 1.5 C in a decade. https://t.co/3J8XMRFJhZ

[David Spratt @djspratt]

Australia’s next defence chief just announced, Angus Campbell, understands #climate national security threats. In 2016 he identified climate change (“an unstable planet”) as one of the three issues central to the Australia’s security challenges.
https://t.co/xWHoAjYMyK

[David Spratt @djspratt]

What is happening in the #Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures. Warning: conatins disturbing images. @ZLabe #climate
https://t.co/cDna21I875

[David Spratt @djspratt]

A draft of the IPCC 1.5 Celsius #climate report has been leaked, but it less than forthright about some of the challenges https://t.co/yGPX4oqBYJ

[David Spratt @djspratt]

So how much more warming is already in the #climate system? In @renew_economy today: "Quantifying our Faustian bargain with fossil fuels”. https://t.co/HIUMdRM5Uj