CASES Climate Action – Sydney Eastern Suburbs

Here’s something to lift your spirits: http://www.climatespectator.com.au/commentary/king-coal-king-solar

The U.N. Environment Program issued a report warning that Earth is undergoing unprecedented changes.

“As human pressures on the Earth system accelerate, several critical global, regional and local thresholds are close or have been exceeded,” UNEP’s fifth Global Environmental Outlook says. “Once these have been passed, abrupt and possible irreversible changes to the life-support functions of the planet are likely to occur, with significant adverse implications for human well-being.”

“Human activities are pushing Earth toward a “tipping point” that could cause sudden, irreversible changes in relatively stable conditions that have allowed civilization to flourish, a new study warns.

There are signs that a toxic brew of climate change, habitat loss and population growth is dramatically reshaping life on Earth, an international team of researchers reported yesterday in the journal Nature.”

Ocean warming a largely man-made phenomena, say researchers.  If you ever needed any more proof, this just about takes the cake!

Warming ocean temperatures over the past 50 years have been largely man-made, according to new research.

The study, published in Nature Climate Change, examined rising ocean temperatures over the past five decades and compared them with a dozen different models used to project climate change. It found that while 10% of the rising temperatures could be blamed on natural variations, man-made greenhouse gases were the major cause.

Warming Arctic Tundra Producing Pop-Up Forests: This is a very worrying development. Tony Abbott ignorant banter about the pricing mechanism on CO2 emissions is laughable in the light of this evidence of global warming!