The ragged remains of our climate mitigation strategy

Australia’s Renewable Energy Target is about all that is left of the country’s formal climate change mitigation strategy.

Tristan Edis.

That too is now threatened with severe cuts and even total demolition.

Writing today in the Sydney Morning Herald, Peter Hannam said reducing the national Renewable Energy Target (RET) would generate $10 billion in extra profit over the next 15 years for owners of coal and gas-fired power plants while consumers pay more.

Hannam, writing in a story headed: “Weaker RET would transfer $10b to big power firms”, referred to a new analysis commissioned by green groups.

Meanwhile Tristan Edis writing on Climate Spectator in a story headed: “Warburton not extreme enough for Abbott?” has pondered about what is really happening.

Locally of little worry, but considered more broadly, it is an unimaginable disaster

Sea level rises could be greater than
anticipated.

Sea level rises seem of little consequence to people of the Goulburn Valley, but they are of vital interest in a broader sense to humanity.

A story published by ClimateSpectator tells of sea level rises beyond what was originally predicted that would “be a disaster of unimaginable proportions”.

A story headed: “Sea level risk rising?” reports that “A new analysis released Thursday in the journal Science implies that the seas could rise dramatically higher over the next few centuries than scientists previously thought – somewhere between 18-to-29 feet above current levels, rather than the 13-to-20 feet they were talking about just a few years ago.”