In the entire history of humanity 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded.
(25 June 2025 – “Almost one-third of Tuvalu’s population is seeking a landmark climate visa to live in Australia” of course they are welcome and could we stop mining coal please!)
In good news thanks to some great corporations and people during 2023 coal use in Germany reached its lowest amount for nearly seventy years (around 27% nationally) Coal use in Japan decreased around 7% last year. Despite the worst efforts of a few coal bureaucrats renewables are being installed rapidly by the private sector in Australia (currently around 80% renewables in NSW and increasing with the largest coal electricity plant in the country producing a quarter of NSW electricity set for early closure in around twelve months**) And many other countries similarly. “The Philippines is on track for an annual decline in coal-fired electricity output for the first time in nearly two decades”. Chile is closing coal electricity plants at a dazzling pace. Ireland closed its last coal-fired electricity plant in June 2025. South Korea has joined other countries in Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA), committing to abandon all their coal-fired electricity generation. China more than doubled its solar capacity during 2023.
The International Energy Agency predicts renewables will overtake coal as the main energy source for electricity worldwide by early next year.
(23 July 2025 – in good news “according to a report compiled by multiple United Nations agencies 92.5% of all new electricity capacity added to the grid worldwide in 2024 came from renewables”)
(**2 June 2024 – Gosh “Reportedly sleazy Albanese-Min’s NSW Government inexplicably last week extended the operations of Earing for another two years the deal will use NSW tax payer funds to compensate any losses to Earing Coal Station up to $225m a year for those two years. Similarly, should Eraring turn a profit, it would pay the government 20% or no more than $40m a year.”
Wow $450million in tax payers funds funneled to the coal industry with maybe $80million paid to tax payers – aren’t corrupt talentless sleazy freemasons consistently not clever.
(29 May 2025 – am trying not to write on blog anymore but not-the-voice-freemason-sleaze-Albanese at it again this week
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(2 October 2024 – reportedly a week or so ago sleazy Albanese corruptly approved more coal mine extensions. Coal contributes more than half of global greenhouse emissions. A few hundred jobs per coal mine and coal puts at risk important high-revenue and high-employment industries such as hospitality, agriculture and drought/water security – putting the quality of life for generations of Australians at risk.
The majority of Australians would like to see a cessation of coal use and yet coal-guzzling sleaze Albanese keeps on approving more coal mines at huge huge cost to many)
(25 July 2025 – in very good news “the NSW court of appeal has overturned the approval of the largest coalmine expansion in the state after a community environment group successfully argued the planning commission failed to consider the impact of all of the project’s greenhouse gas emissions” (via the Guardian))
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(11 January 2025
Destruction including damage to property and loss of life due to fires is tragically happening more and more regularly having an enormous negative economic impact.
“Some utility companies in the state are already moving to bury power lines in fire-prone areas, although the process can cost millions of dollars per mile”
That is fibbing freemason costing of things there is no way it costs millions of dollars to dig only one mile of cable trench (even if under roads and buildings etc) if that’s the best estimate from contractors then the government can easily employ a dozen or so people directly to dig the cable trenches (easy to use small low-cost power tools with cameras attached that dig cable tunnels under roads or buildings – even skinny me can use them – push a button with one finger and watch it dig) Have watched them do it to ensure no damage to property they tunnelled under driveway and to house in less than an hour without breaking a sweat – the utility company arrived a day or so later to lay the cable (noticed them measuring it to the millimetre to bill) – and no subsidence in the many years since.
Power lines go underground.
Water. Water. Water.
And urgently cease use of coal – the largest contributor to greenhouse gases.
We have the same problem in some parts of Australia too.
In our thoughts and prayers.
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(8 April 2024 – truly great – solar electricity generation exceeds coal in Texas for the first time ever
Huge huge kudos ❤️
That’s some great people and some great corporations genuinely saving all life on earth
(full disclosure used to (work) at service stations when very short (was assembling carburetors etc before attended school) – am very much let the market and consumers decide – simply switch off coal and more than half way there to reduce greenhouse emissions – easily done and huge positive impact to reduce electricity costs to consumers and reducing the negative impact of extreme climate fluctuations including water shortages – bonus for humans and critters)
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(21 March 2024 – (via Aljazeera)
“Around 62 million tonnes of e-waste was generated in 2022 and only 22 percent of e-waste was properly collected and recycled in 2022. Currently, only 1 percent of the demand for the 17 minerals that make up the rare metals is met through recycling. Metals – including copper, gold, and iron – made up half of the e-waste and if recycled were worth around $91bn.”
A boom industry 😃 )
(Image by Emre via unsplash)
(20 June 2024 – “in the most recent edition of its highly regarded Levelised Cost of Energy+ (LCOE+) Analysis, US investment bank Lazard compares the cost of generating electricity from renewable technologies to conventional technologies, across various scenarios and sensitivities – the report finds that wind and solar power are half the cost of coal and gas and one-third the cost of nuclear” Lower cost reliable electricity for consumers makes a lot of sense – half the cost electricity bills for consumers seems pretty reasonable)
(27 January 2024 – ignore this – gosh – reportedly on Friday Biden cancelled permits he had previously issued for some upcoming gas drilling projects – yes but coal produces more than half of all greenhouse emissions globally and Biden has increased coal use domestically in less than a term and for the first time in more than a decade – please switch off the bloody coal electricity plants bureaucrat. Honestly.
Amongst a gazillion gazillion other appalling bureaucratic nonsense cancelling LNG projects on Australia Day thereby pushing more people onto using coal – absurd sleazy bureaucratic twit Biden. Consistently the worst approval rating of any bureaucrat this century and amongst a few of the worst in history absolutely earned by the deceitful Bidens. Honestly.
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(18 March 2024
“Global average ocean temperatures in 2023 were 0.25 degrees Celsius warmer than the previous year, that rise is “is equivalent to about two decades worth of warming in a single year,” he told CNN. “So it is quite large, quite significant, and a bit surprising” (via CNN)
1.5 degrees Celsius rise is extinction level for many species humans included.
Am typing this at a beach haven’t visited in around a decade – the seagulls are different than last time visited – much less of them and the seagulls look unhealthy – was thinking this morning (and last night) there should be more seagulls – a decade ago hundreds now only a few dozen. Perhaps not enough fish for them.
Action to reduce greenhouse emissions especially coal use is absolutely vital and easily done.
And reported by others this week Rio de Janeiro has just recorded an all time record temperature of 62.3 degrees Celsius (144.14 degrees Fahrenheit) – that is simply not survivable for many species humans included.
(28 March 2024 – (via CNN)
Apparently the earth’s rotation is being negatively effected by melting sea ice – “as ice melts into the ocean, meltwater moves from the poles toward the equator, which further slows the speed of the Earth’s rotation – the process is like a figure skater spinning with their arms over their head. As they bring their arms down toward their shoulders, their spin slows.” Gosh)
Copernicus Atlas #atlas.climate.copernicus.eu/atlas
Many good politicians, great people and great corporations are taking positive action to reduce coal use. Only a few appalling bureaucrats continue to funnel tax payer funds into weapons deals and coal subsidies at huge huge cost to many)
Envisage cities where all skyscrapers are built elevated from touching the ground (similar to Australia Square) people no longer walk around the city block in heat, rain or snow but rather through the city as the crow flies protected from the elements with ample sheltered plazas with cool breezes for cafes, sculptures and gardens.
Imagine suburbia without fences – without all the fences – suburbia would be transformed.
Grew up with only a line of trees marking the fence line with the neighbor on one side – great way to live – less fenced in and makes everyone’s yard feel bigger – so much nicer to look at neighbors garden rather than a fence (with careful planting of shrubs and trees and good architecture and screens privacy can be maintained without solid fences that are real eyesores in suburbia – suburbia is often lots of nice houses with really crappy fencing). And for decades we have had a property with no fences with neighbors or the national park behind – the fence line is a pile of rocks at each corner and you can pace it out from there. Children and critters free to run around (neighbors cows munched our grass but never ventured into the literally hundreds of kilometers of national park behind – short me used to tell the cows run for the hills! – cows never did always waiting by the main gate every day – remarkable)
“Beauty is not tiny fenced yards, beauty is the limitless horizons and colours of the outback”
A world without borders is a beautiful place to envisage.
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