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Colin D Butler @colin-d-butler.bsky.social

The lead author is from one of my ANU affiliations - whose just retired director recently wrote to tell me there is no climate change "emergency" because it's "expected". I applied as his replacement, naturally was not short listed. Sophistry and denial - both examples. Very sad.

jun 21, 2025, 2:26 pm • 6 0

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Colin D Butler @colin-d-butler.bsky.social

Also, this is not net zero. Energy from renewables will (hopefully) replace energy from fossil fuels. But it will NOT lower GHG levels, it will only slow GHG growth. M/time, just as with old fashioned net zero, it creates moral hazard, this false equivalence could paradoxically delay the transition.

jun 21, 2025, 3:09 pm • 4 0 • view
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Colin D Butler @colin-d-butler.bsky.social

"360 million tonnes [mt] of emissions could be negated by a mix of green exports". Word "negated" is objectionable. "Saving" 204 mt of CO₂ is not same as sequestering 204mt (another pipedream btw); hole we are in wouldn't get shallower; the GHG emissions aren't cancelled.

jun 21, 2025, 3:30 pm • 3 0 • view
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Colin D Butler @colin-d-butler.bsky.social

Australia should just get on with the energy transition (at least attempting to). I hope the COP selection committee sees through this, but they probably won't. Net zero is a mix of scam, delusion, desperation & wishful thinking. www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

jun 21, 2025, 3:30 pm • 5 0 • view