Tom Kompas
@tkompas.bsky.social
Professor of Biosecurity and Environmental Economics, CEBRA, University of Melbourne; Climate Change Modelling; Eureka Science Prize; FASSA. 🌎😷
"Invasive species have cost the New South Wales economy at least AU$30 billion over the last five decades while the true cost may be far higher..." cebra.unimelb.edu.au/about/news/i... doi.org/10.3897/neob... @tkompas.bsky.social @lu-yiwang.bsky.social @biosecuritycommons.bsky.social #CEBRA
Invasive species costs for New South Wales are high, and growing
Invasive species costs for New South Wales are high, and growing
cebra.unimelb.edu.au
Explore our new work on climate change impacts on Indigenous Fijian culture in Ovalau. Anca Hanea, Rosiana Lagi (USP), and @tkompas.bsky.social, Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis #CEBRA + Centre for Environmental & Economic Research #CEER, @unimelb.edu.au
Ecology & Society: Current and future climate change impacts on Indigenous lifestyle and cultural values in Ovalau, Fiji
Many <em>iTaukei</em> (Indigenous Fijian) communities maintain traditional lifestyles that may be particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts because of a reliance on small-scale subsistence agr...
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New work tells a familiar story about invasive species impacts, while highlighting the value of #OpenScience resources for biosecurity. #CEBRA, @lu-yiwang.bsky.social, Anca Hanea, @tkompas.bsky.social
NeoBiota@neobiota.pensoft.net · 10mo agoInvasive species are costing New South Wales billions of dollars a year, with plants and agricultural losses dominating reported impacts and major gaps remaining in how environmental and non-market damages are counted. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/neob...
I, along with 30 co-authors from 20 different countries, just had published a Perspective in Nature Sustainability entitled 'Rethinking responses to the world's water crises'. It's available in the link below: www.nature.com/articles/s41... .
Rethinking responses to the world’s water crises - Nature Sustainability
Efforts to address the water challenges that societies face are hindered by a lack of funding and ineffective implementation, as well as poor understanding of the causes. Adopting a beyond growth fram...
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A new Nature Sustainability paper out today. 30 co-authors from 20 different countries. 'Rethinking responses to the world's water crises' … url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/yliZCXLKNw...
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McKinsey paid $1.6m to ‘guide’ Australian climate policy despite working for fossil fuel companies! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
McKinsey paid $1.6m to ‘guide’ Australian climate policy despite working for fossil fuel companies
Guardian Australia was told firm disclosed its private sector work, but it is not known which clients were listed
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Sums it up nicely: Bill McGuire: “Smoke and mirrors: 37 bt out of 40 bt tonnes of CO2 emitted in 2023 due to burning FFs, but - like every COP beforehand - @COP29 pretends this isn't happening.”
It's like they've reinvented Australia
Chris Pomfret@chrispomfret.bsky.social · 2y agoRobert is right.
Bluesky is seeing a massive influx of activity following the US election results last week. ‣ @siliconrepublic.bsky.social #BlueSky
Bluesky surges past 15m users after US election results
The decentralised social media platform Bluesky now has nearly 15m users, gaining almost 400,000 since yesterday.
siliconrepublic.com
For those who are keeping track, that's named storm #18. Only 11 seasons going back to 1851 have seen that many storms. (Note: the last time tropical Atlantic temps were near this warm and we were headed toward La Nina--2005--the season extended into January)
CNN@cnn.com · 2y agoTropical Storm Sara has formed and is closing in on Central America where it is set to unleash disastrous flooding rain with "life-threatening" impact.
If you learn anything today, it should be this: We're burning more fossil fuels and releasing more fossil fuel CO₂ than ever. Despite what people had hoped, anthropogenic CO₂ emissions have not peaked. To stay below +1.5°C of global warming, we're supposed to cut emissions by 50% by 2030. 🥲
Glen Peters@glenpeters.bsky.social · 2y agoCombining the slower growth in fossil CO2 emissions & slow decline in LUC emissions, means that total CO2 emissions are close to a plateau over the last decade. Though, with a rise in fossil emissions & forest fires partly fuelled by El Niño, total emissions are estimated to rise 2% in 2024. 4/
Instead of rushing the study on the environmental, climate, and national-security impacts of LNG, making the permitting pause permanent before Trump takes office, Biden is spending his time making sure that the sweet, sweet methane keeps flowing smoothly after he's gone. Catastrophe.
Here are the economic damages at 3.4C (!!) by country. Up to 28% annual losses in GDP for the most impacted. Catastrophic!! (Antarctica captures losses for island nations and other countries that don’t have resolution in the global map.) Even here damage functions are limited. Published in NCC.
This is exactly what I argued about the campaigns themselves: that Trump offered a deep story and Harris defended institutions! Here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro... Hmm— two independent but converging takes — we must be right lolsob.
Democrats are letting Trump’s climate lies take hold
When extreme storms hit the United States, the Maga disinformation machine went into overdrive. Kamala Harris failed to counter it
prospectmagazine.co.uk
Kate Starbird@katestarbird.bsky.social · 2y agoThe Right built a powerful, partisan, & participatory media environment to support its messaging, which offers a compelling "deep story" for its participants. The Left relied upon rigid, self-preserving institutional media and its "story" is little more than a defense of imperfect institutions.
Video shows Elnur Soltanov, a chief executive of COP-29, planning to use the COP to drive "investment opportunities" in their state oil & gas company. "We have a lot of gas fields that are to be developed," he said to the reporter posing as an investor. The BBC has the story (link in next skeet).
The Atlantic hurricane season is on track to eclipse the 160 mark for Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE). This will officially qualify 2024 as a "hyperactive" season. Notice how heavily backloaded the season became. Precisely why no one should ever declare a hurricane season "over" in September.
In recognition of us doing fuck all to reduce emissions, let me remind y'all that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is useless unless we decarbonize drastically. rdcu.be/dbFbB
Carbon dioxide removal is not a current climate solution — we need to change the narrative
Drastically reduce emissions first, or carbon dioxide removal will be next to useless.
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Here are the economic damages at 3.4C (!!) by country. Up to 28% annual losses in GDP for the most impacted. Catastrophic!! (Antarctica captures losses for island nations and other countries that don’t have resolution in the global map.) Even here damage functions are limited. Published in NCC.
Trump’s transition team for climate and the environment has reportedly prepared drastic changes, including "eliminating every office in every agency working to end the pollution that disproportionately affects poor communities" www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/c...
The CEO of COP29 talking to a fake investment group on a video call, promising to arrange deals between them and SOCAR, Azerbaijan's state-owned oil and gas company during the upcoming climate conference: www.bbc.com/news/article...
The severe losses in GDP by country as a result of Climate Change at 3.4 degrees (graphic). Total global damages over $610 TRILLION to 2100, or a COVID sized economic shock *every year* on average for the next 80 years. END FOSSIL FUELS NOW! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere over the past three months! 😳Data from data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
The severe losses in GDP by country as a result of Climate Change at 3.4 degrees (graphic). Total global damages over $610 TRILLION to 2100, or a COVID sized economic shock *every year* on average for the next 80 years. END FOSSIL FUELS NOW! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
