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ELWYN'S CLIMATE CHANGE PAGE
Foreword
The problem
The essential concepts
Australia's position
2019 Australia's hottest year
The Australian bushfires of 2019-2020
"Our credit card is maxed out and there will be hell to pay "
The earth's energy budget
The greenhouse effect
Deforestation
Aids to detection - the technology
Ice cores, cosmogenic exposure dating
Satellite observations and measurements
The Afternoon Constellation (A-Train)
Climate modelling
Data collection
The symptoms
Arctic warming
Ocean acidity
Arctic sea ice is decreasing
A weakened polar vortex - introduction
A weakened polar vortex - the root cause
Winters of our discontent
... and in the Southern Hemisphere
Consequences of climate change on a global scale
Warming oceans, rising sea levels and glacier melt
Coral bleaching
Extremes of heat
Species' extinction
Land degradation impacting food security
A "global cascade of tipping points"
Separating human and natural influences on climate
The Paris agreement
Australia's biggest greenhouse gas emitters
Adani
Modes of curbing emissions
Geo-engineering/carbon capture
Hydrogen capture
Solar Radiation Management
Modes of curbing emissions - carbon tax and other political expedients
How about a carbon tax, or an ETS, or then again an EIS
or maybe an RET or possibly even an LET
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The Finkel report
but wait, there's more: what about an NEG
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The Garnaut Review, 2008, 2011
The 2019 election
... and if all else fails, let's try a technology neutral hybrid
Emission reduction: how Australia's efforts are viewed internationally
The nuclear option: nuclear fission and nuclear fusion
The ongoing momentum towards renewals
The problem with gas
Other fronts in the war
The future
The IPCC Special Report 2018, COP 24 2018 and COP 25 2019
"And we insist on staying stupid"
Appendix A: a new geological epoch - the Anthropocene
Appendix B: The 97% scientific consensus on global warming
Appendix C: The main greenhouse gases (GHG's)
Appendix D: The 3% - some well-known climate sceptics
Appendix E: Climate Science myths that refuse to die
Other websites by Elwyn
The symptoms
Arctic warming
Ocean acidity
Arctic sea ice is decreasing
A weakened polar vortex - Introduction
A weakened polar vortex - the root cause
Winters of our discontent
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