George Monbiot: If Abbott is elected, Australia's natural wonders will gradually be rubbed away

Tony Abbott's climate policies are about removing the social and environmental protections enjoyed by all Australians to allow the filthy rich to become richer – and filthier.

Thursday 5 September 2013 11.35 AEST

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/05/abbott-climate-change-election

350 Pacific: "We are not drowning -- we are fighting!"

Join the movement at http://350.org

On March 2nd, 2013, warriors across 14 Pacific island nations answered a call, brought on by the threat of climate change. The warrior spirit of the Pacific Islands rose to show the world "We are not drowning. We are fighting." The Warrior Spirit of the Pacific Islands has now awoken to fight climate change.

We're not giving up. We're going to fight for what is ours - our island homes and cultures.

Source: http://youtu.be/8xZlswE7IVI

Sun Come Up (trailer)

More information: http://www.suncomeup.com/film/Trailer.html

Global Power Shift: Phase 1 Report-Back

http://stories.350.org/if-somebody-tells-you-that-young-people-dont-care-about-the-future-tell-them-to-watch-this

Spread the truth about climate change

"Our challenge is to fight denial where it's happening and spread the truth about man-made climate change. Reality Drop finds climate news from around the web and connects it with the most relevant science." (Reality Drop)

Reality Drop: https://realitydrop.org

About: https://realitydrop.org/#about

Global Warming Is Very Real (Rolling Stone)
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warming-is-very-real-20130912

Climate Change Report From UN Introduces Purple Color To Depict Worsening Climate Risks (Associated Press)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/13/climate-change-report-un_n_3918823.html

Rupert Murdoch's Newspapers Mislead Public On Climate Change and Environment (DeSmog Blog)
http://www.desmogblog.com/rupert-murdoch-s-newspapers-mislead-public-climate-change-and-environment

Dollars for Deniers: Big Oil Funds Climate Science Denialism (Daily Kos)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/26/1182365/-Dollars-for-Deniers-Big-Oil-Funds-Climate-Science-Denialism/

The 5 stages of climate denial are on display ahead of the IPCC report (The Guardian)
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/sep/16/climate-change-contrarians-5-stages-denial?CMP=twt_gu

Alaska's Big Thaw: Climate Migration in Alaska

SBS Dateline, Tue 23 July 2013 9:30pm: Climate Migration in Alaska

Watch here: http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story/watch/id/601698/n/Alaska-s-Big-Thaw

Home (Trailer)

See the entire Home movie at http://youtu.be/jqxENMKaeCU

Home - the environment at http://youtu.be/KDlcANyFHhA

See also: http://youtu.be/a51mWYhVmek

Our Planet: The Overview Effect

Source: http://vimeo.com/planetarycollective/overview Perhaps interesting: http://www.ageoftransition.org

Steroids, baseball, and climate change

‘The Critical Decade 2013: Climate Change Science, Risks and Responses’

Steffen, W. & L. Hughes, 2013, Two years ago in its report The Critical Decade: Climate science, risks and responses, the Climate Commission stated that this decade, 2011-2020, is the decade to decisively begin the journey to decarbonise our economy, thereby reducing the risks posed by climate change. One quarter of the way through the Critical Decade, many consequences of climate change are already evident, and the risks of further climate change are better understood. To meet the widely accepted policy goal of limiting climate change to a temperature rise of no more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels, global society must virtually decarbonise in the next 30-35 years. This means that most of the fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground.

Download/s: http://climatecommission.gov.au/report/the-critical-decade-2013
http://climatecommission.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/The-Critical-Decade-2013_Website.pdf

Bill McKibben on Faith & Fossil Fuel Divestment

Do the Math - The Movie

http://act.350.org/signup/math-movie/ http://youtu.be/KuCGVwJIRd0

Do the Math: The Movie - International Trailer

Michael Braungart and William McDonough: Cradle to Cradle

McDonough W & Braungart M (2002) Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way we make things. Chapter Two. North Point Press US pp. 45-67.

Doubt

Also: http://climaterealityproject.org/video/doubters/

Sharing tools versus owning stuff

Also: http://www.goget.com.au/

Coaxed by the Kochs

See also: http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/

The Price of Carbon

Comic Published by WBGU (German Advisory Council for Global Change)

Ein Comic erklärt das Gutachten „Transformation“ (This video is in German) More information: http://www.wbgu.de/comic-transformation/

Download press release in German (72 KB): http://www.wbgu.de/fileadmin/templates/dateien/presse/presseerklaerungen/downloads/wbgu_presse_Comic_dt.pdf

Inspiring speeches by PIK Potsdam Professor Schellnhuber CBE

Keynote speech delivered by Professor Schellnhuber CBE on the occasion of COP18 in Doha 2012: The Laws of Nature – and the Laws of Civilization. Download pdf (65 KB): http://www.pik-potsdam.de/aktuelles/nachrichten/news/in-short/files/Schellnhuber-keynote-COP18-state-dinner-Doha.pdf

http://vimeo.com/67720244

Reality Drop -- Spread Truth. Destroy Denial

More information: https://realitydrop.org

Cap on Capitalism? Jeremy Grantham on BBC World Service Global Business

A colleague at UNSW shared this interesting and disquieting interview by the BBC's Peter Day with investment expert Jeremy Grantham on taking a long-term view on capitalism and the global economy: "[T]he assumptions which have powered the industrial revolution for two centuries are looking pretty threadbare. So, how do we manage technological progress in a world of finite resources?" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0148yp8)

Here is an excerpted passage I transcribed, in my view worth meditating on: @ 23:00

"We need to reconcile ourselves to the fact that in the long run you cannot have physical growth in a finite world. You can have qualitative growth, but you can't have physical growth. All you have to do is be slightly familiar with the compounding problem. I used to talk about 4.5% was the GDP growth rate of the entire planet in physical output in 2005 and 2006, and I was saying, if the ancient Egyptian empire had kept that up for 3,000 years, a cubic metre of physical possessions would have compounded to more than our ... solar system could handle ... A full of physical possessions at 4.5% compounded for 3,000 years, go and check it, it's correct, you can't compound at the kind of loony numbers we've been talking about. Now you can have qualitative improvements, you can have even better iPads, you can have even smaller television sets that project on the wall in three dimensions, you can do that, but you cannot have compound increase in physical output, nor can you use your resources in a compound way." (Jeremy Grantham on BBC World Service Global Business)

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0148yp8)

Charting the garbage patches of the sea

A colleague Dr Erik van Sebille from UNSW's Climate Change Research Centre has completed a study of ocean "garbage patches", and has found that in some regions the amount of plastic outweighs that of marine life. Source: http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/7/4/044040

Related article:

Yachtsman describes horror at ‘dead’, rubbish strewn Pacific Ocean: Ivan MacFadyen says he was shocked by absence of sea life during his 37,000km voyage between Australia and Japan

Whole article in the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/21/yachtsman-describes-horror-at-dead-rubbish-strewn-pacific-ocean

Rochelle Potter Interview

One of my friends (Ro Potter) sharing about trafficking...