This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Saturday, 30 October 2021
Hardly Fair Dinkum
Question: What's worse than a country not having a strategy for carbon zero? Answer: Producing a plan so risible it makes the country a laughing stock. Australia's 2050 net zero emissions plan relies on 'gross manipulation' of data (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/oct/30/australias-2050-net-zero-emissions-plan-relies-on-gross-manipulation-of-data-experts-say). Details of the 'modelling' are not revealed but the 'plan' uses estimates for carbon dioxide storage in trees and soil, massively above the upper values of what authoritive peer-reviewed science suggests is possible. This is science for the fairies (or coal barons)? They do the planet no favours by indulging in a cosmetic exercise.
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