From the opening scenes of The Age of Stupid
a film about failure to address the causes
of climate change
It may be a camera shot straight out of a Hollywood film studio's box of special effects, but are climate catastrophes becoming more than a movie script?
If Australia in 2013 is any indication, the world is still doing too little to keep this imagined Sydney scenario safely in the realms of fictional scenarios.
In the week ending 3 January 2013 the total combined greenhouse gas emissions of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania was 24% higher than the 1990 total, according to The Climate Group and by 10 January was 34% higher.
In the week ending 16 January the total combined greenhouse gas emissions of these same five states was 36% higher than the 1990 total.
While by the week ending 24 January 2013 the total combined greenhouse gas emissions had risen yet again to 37% higher than the 1990 total and, was still 8.2% higher than the year 2000 total - the last Kyoto Protocol reference year on whose national greenhouse gas output Australia pledged (under the Cancun Agreements) an unconditional 2020 target of 5 per cent below 2000 levels.
If Australia in 2013 is any indication, the world is still doing too little to keep this imagined Sydney scenario safely in the realms of fictional scenarios.
In the week ending 3 January 2013 the total combined greenhouse gas emissions of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania was 24% higher than the 1990 total, according to The Climate Group and by 10 January was 34% higher.
In the week ending 16 January the total combined greenhouse gas emissions of these same five states was 36% higher than the 1990 total.
While by the week ending 24 January 2013 the total combined greenhouse gas emissions had risen yet again to 37% higher than the 1990 total and, was still 8.2% higher than the year 2000 total - the last Kyoto Protocol reference year on whose national greenhouse gas output Australia pledged (under the Cancun Agreements) an unconditional 2020 target of 5 per cent below 2000 levels.
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