What NZ First’s slavish worship of pollution means for climate change

We are in so much fucking trouble here, we just don’t understand!

Look any this jump in CO2…

Record-breaking increase in CO2 levels in world’s atmosphere

The largest ever recorded leap in the amount of carbon dioxide laden in the world’s atmosphere has just occurred, according to researchers who monitor the relentless accumulation of the primary gas that is heating the planet.

The global average concentration of carbon dioxide in March this year was4.7 parts per million (or ppm) higher than it it was in March last year, which is a record-breaking increase in CO₂ levels over a 12-month period.

The increase has been spurred, scientists say, by the periodic El Niño climate event, which has now waned, as well as the ongoing and increasing amounts of greenhouse gases expelled into the atmosphere due to the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.

“It’s really significant to see the pace of the increase over the first four months of this year, which is also a record,” said Ralph Keeling, director of the CO2 Program at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “We aren’t just breaking records in CO₂ concentrations, but also the record in how fast it is rising.”

The global CO₂ readings have been taken from a station perched upon the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii since the measurements began in 1958 under Keeling’s father, Charles. The concentrations of CO₂ have increased each year since, as the heat-trapping gas continues to progressively accumulate due to rampant emissions from power plants, cars, trucks and other sources, with last year hitting a new global record in annual emissions.

In June, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announcedthat global concentration of CO₂ had hit 421ppm, a 50% increase on pre-industrial times and the highest in millions of years. The latest reading from Mauna Loa shows the world at around 426ppm of CO₂.

Before the point where humans starting expelling huge volumes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels, CO₂ levels were around 280ppm for almost 6,000 years of human civilization.

The rapid rise in the heat-trapping gas threatens the world with disastrous climate breakdown in the form of severe heatwaves, floods, droughts and wildfires. Recent research has suggested that CO₂ levels were last this high around 14m years ago, causing a climate that would appear alien to people alive today.

…Jesus wept!

The last time we had this much C02 in the atmosphere was 14million years ago.

We. Are. So. Fucked!

To gain those levels of c02 naturally in the biosphere takes accumulation of CO2 over hundreds of thousands if not millions of years.

We’ve done it in less than 3 centuries.

We know when the accumulation is is the hundreds of years that the flipping moments can take decades to go Fromm extreme heat to ice age.

It is these intense fluctuations of temperature that cause the mass extinctions because few things can adapt within the space of decades.

The solution here is renewables.

The solution here is better insulating our cold homes.

The solution here is solar panels on every roof and localised wind farms linking to the grid and powering that grid.

The solution here is to move beyond coal, petrol and gas because the enormous catastrophic weather events coming our way will require and demand a much more flexible adaptation capacity.

That solution is not the solution this hard right racist climate denying beneficiary bashing Government wants…

Government hypes gas crisis ahead of restarting drilling

Solar power is the cheapest form of energy in the Pacific but the Government says New Zealand’s only choices for keeping the lights on are gas or coal

…this Government is paid for by those representing the polluter interests of the status quo and they will not allow NZ to start a trend they can’t stop…

Shane Jones slams ‘woke-riddled left’ amid energy debate, Chlöe Swarbrick fires back

Resources Minister Shane Jones has come out swinging at the “woke-riddled left” during an energy debate in Parliament. 

The NZ First MP accused Opposition parties of a “faint green vision” to “keep the lights on with unicorn kisses”. 

It comes after the Government said earlier on Wednesday low gas production is threatening New Zealand’s energy security.  

Figures released by the Gas Industry Company show production reduced by 12.5 percent during 2023 and by 27.8 percent in the first three months of this year – beyond what was projected. 

The figures are concerning for those who rely on gas – such as schools, hospitals, universities, food and chemical processors and electricity generators. 

It’s causing companies such as Genesis Energy to resort to importing coal, which has higher emissions. 

“Today, industry sees the long-term consequences of the shallow, emerald, mannikin thinking that’s driven energy policy for the last five or six years,” Jones said. “Today industry throughout New Zealand is confronted by the fact as a consequence of that juvenile, woke-riddled, foolish belief that we don’t need our natural resources, that we don’t need our natural gas, that we don’t need coal – has been laid bare.” 

“You voted for it” and “Look in the mirror” were among several interjections Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick made while Jones spoke.  

Jones was referring to the 2018 decision to ban all new oil and gas exploration in New Zealand, except for onshore Taranaki. The decision was reluctantly backed by NZ First, which was in a Coalition Government with Labour at the time. 

The current Coalition Government said it would repeal the present oil and gas exploration ban. 

Jones, gesturing to the other side of the House, said left-wing parties are scaring away overseas investors for a “faint green vision that somehow we can keep the lights on with unicorn kisses”. 

“Hopefully, these emerald manikins will retire and let the serious politicians address the unresolved issues in our economy,” Jones continued. 

This maniac will doom us all.

NZ First have courted industry donations and those donations are getting policy that lower water safety standards, grant fast track powers for trans national mining interests and slash environmental protections.

Nothing these goons are pushing for recognises the danger we are in and only grants those causing climate change more pollution rights.

Late stage capitalism smugness has become an existential threat to our species.

NZ First must be destroyed.

 

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