Reading Time: 12 mins22nd April 2022
Author: Robert Watson

1.5°C ... GOING, GOING, GONE!
The Paris Agreement is a landmark international accord that was adopted by nearly every nation in 2015 to address climate change and its negative impacts. The agreement aims to substantially reduce global greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to limit the global temperature increase in this century to 2°C above preindustrial levels while pursuing the means to limit the increase to 1.5°C. Source: IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)

On current evidence, one could reasonably believe that Earth has possibly reached, or is very close to reaching the critical +1.5°C temperature increase over pre-industrial temperature levels.

Reading Time: 8 mins21st February 2022
Author: Robert Watson

THE POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
The expense and difficulty in reaching a sustainable level of global temperature before 2050 was made more difficult by the inaction and neglect of the Morrison government and particularly the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction, Angus Taylor.

At the same time many industries were independently moving away from fossil fuel generated power Morrison, Taylor, Joyce, Pitt and many other conservative politicians were encouraging and promoting fossil fuel companies while almost completely ignoring renewables and the necessary infrastructure for transition ...

Reading Time: 8 mins30th October 2021
Author: Robert Watson

CARBON CAPTURE & STORAGE – FICTION OR FACT?
The anthropocentric process of carbon capture and storage (CCS) has been tried and tested for over 30 years. Until now, there has never been a CCS project that has sequestered any substantial amount of carbon.

The fossil fuel industry speaks of projected figures approaching 90% sequestration, when the best result is about 30% and the average only 12% of sequestered carbon, leaving 88% escaping to the atmosphere. Is CCS viable or an expensive greenwashing exercise?

Reading Time: 5 mins29th October 2021
Author: Robert Watson

COP26 and AUSTRALIA
The Australian Prime Minister Morrison and Emissions Reduction Minister Taylor represented Australia at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. Australia offered no policy ideas, no commitment and was more concerned with the promotion of fossil fuel miner Santos and their plan for carbon capture and storage - an expensive process with very disappointing results ...