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A new essay on our beautiful, but neglected ocean A new essay on our beautiful, but neglected ocean is now on the Rockflat website ...
https://rockflat.com.au/portfolio-items/ocean
Visit the website ... https://rockflat.com.au/ And Visit the website ... https://rockflat.com.au/
And get active!;
It's not always deadly serious at ... https://roc It's not always deadly serious at 
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You can read this essay before you vote here... ht You can read this essay before you vote here...
https://rockflat.com.au/portfolio-items/are/you/comfortable/with/australian/politics/
Happily, it's not all bad news on climate change! Happily, it's not all bad news on climate change!
SOLAR AND WIND HELPED CLEAN ENERGY SUPPLY 40% OF THE WORLD'S ELECTRICITY IN 2024.
Read about it in the GOOD NEWS section of ROCKFLAT CLIMATE.
https://rockflat.com.au/
Get wise about nuclear power before voting... Get wise about nuclear power before voting...
The link to the analysis of whether we should supp The link to the analysis of whether we should support Dutton's nuclear program ...
https://rockflat.com.au/portfolio-items/is-nuclear-power-the-right-option-for-australia/
You can read the essay "Is Nuclear Power the Right You can read the essay "Is Nuclear Power the Right Option for Australia" on ...
https://rockflat.com.au/portfolio-items/is-nuclear-power-the-right- option-for-australia/
THE POWER OF WATER! A rare good news story on cli THE POWER OF WATER! 
A rare good news story on climate and clean renewable energy. 

GOOD NEWS. Over the past 5 years Evolution Mining and advisory form ICA Partners have spent $25 million on initial work to convert the mined-out Mt Rawdon gold mine into a pumped hydro power project. 

EVEN BETTER NEWS. The Queensland government has committed $50 million to the project and will purchase the project, after feasibility, as part of its greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. 

The system would work by by moving water between two dams, one at the top of a hill and another at the bottom, through a turbine. Because it is a steep site a lot of power could be generated over a relatively short distance. 
Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-12/mt-rawdon-mine-pumped-hydro-project-gets-50-million/105161320
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READ THE ESSAY ON https://www.rockflat.com.au and READ THE ESSAY ON https://www.rockflat.com.au 
and let's make sure we get it RIGHT FROM NOW ON!!
Look who has moved in to the parrots nesting box. Look who has moved in to the parrots nesting box. I think he/she is a little heavy for the floor!
Mother showing new daughter the local "seed feedin Mother showing new daughter the local "seed feeding stations"
We have lost a remarkable, funny and brilliant man We have lost a remarkable, funny and brilliant man today. He always made me think and laugh. Rest in peace Michael Leunig.
The environment and Australia had a win this week The environment and Australia had a win this week when the Queensland government rejected  the inappropriate and potentially disastrous proposal of Glencore to pump liquified carbon dioxide waste into sandstone beneath the Great Artesian Basin. 
Read about the proposal and the GAB here ...
https://rockflat.com.au/
There's a new climate essay on www.rockflat.com.au There's a new climate essay on www.rockflat.com.au.
Glencore Mining has a proposal to pump carbon dioxide mine waste into The Great Artesian Basin using carbon capture and storage technology.
Read the critical essay by Robert Watson on the proposal, the risks, the cost and the benefits of this latest Glencore scheme ... here
https://rockflat.com.au/portfolio-items/glencore-and-the-great-artesian-basin-is-it-worth-the-risk/
TUCKER WITH AN ‘F’ I’d never before had the TUCKER WITH AN ‘F’
I’d never before had the displeasure and distress of watching a Tucker Carlson interview., but decided to make an exception last week to watch the Tucker (with a ‘t’ not an ’f’) interview the former KGB officer and fellow narcissist Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. 

So, it was not bad, it was absolutely terrible as Tucker the sycophant was led by the ring in his nose by Putin, who must have thought all his Rozhdestvo Khristovo’s had come at once given a 2-hour stage to the west. All the same old Russian propaganda emanated from Putin like so much effluent – Russia’s so-called historical right to occupy parts of Ukraine, the fantasy that Ukraine’s leadership is a mere puppet of the west, and, of course the “unfair” sanctions.

Tucker, who is Trump’s pet, was a disgrace. Putin was Putin. God help us if Trump gets elected in November with the help of all the Tuckers (with a ‘t’, not an ‘f’) across America –  the world and all in it will be Tuckered (with an ’F’!). 

I won’t include a link for the interview – it’s easy to find if you must - however, I assure you helping your neighbour fix his leaking sewerage line would be far more enjoyable.
COP28 was the most recent climate conference held COP28 was the most recent climate conference held in Dubai. Held in the historical heart of world oil production, run by the former head of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, and allowing more than 2400 industry-affiliated lobbyists, including more than 450 lobbyists specialising in CARBON CAPTURE & STORAGE (CCS) ... there is little wonder the conference made no firm decisions on reducing carbon emissions and spent a great deal of precious time promoting CCS, a failed technology being used by the fossil fuel industry as a fig leaf and little more than GREENWASHING!

Link below to a new Rockflat essay on CCS - it's one you should read to see just how much a well-run propaganda campaign has the potential to cause so much damage in the name of fossil fuel profits.
Rockflat link: https://rockflat.com.au/portfolio-items/carbon-capture-storage-another-greenwashing-exercise/
WHY ISN'T AUSTRALIA ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE CARBON EMI WHY ISN'T AUSTRALIA ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE CARBON EMISSIONS FROM THE FOSSIL FUELS WE EXPORT?
Carbon emissions occur from the first day the ground is broken for a new mine, through the mining and transportation, and the final burning of the fossil fuel.
Those emissions don't suddenly disappear from the atmosphere in a month, a year, or a decade - the bulk of carbon emissions linger in the atmosphere for up to 1,000 years!
The new "progressive" Labor government needs to stop opening new coal mines and gas facilities and take responsibility for carbon emissions caused by Australia's exported fossil fuels. Despite the "polished" emissions figures the government publishes, if exported emissions were added Australia would soon be classed as a climate pariah.
https://rockflat.com.au/portfolio-items/decarbonisi https://rockflat.com.au/portfolio-items/decarbonising-australia/
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