More Than 100 Blazes Rage Across Australia’s East Coast

November 10, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

Parts of Australia face an unprecedented threat as more than 100 bushfires burn across coastal New South Wales and Queensland. Communities on NSW’s mid-north coast and the far north coast are battling the worst of the conditions which have created an orange-red glow over the fire-threatened city of Port Macquarie.

Anthropogenic Climate Change — A.Prof. Alex Sen Gupta

October 31, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

The Earth’s climate is changing. Models show us how.

The world’s climate is complex — land, oceans, atmosphere, all in a constant state of change. Feedback loops, seasonal cycles, complicated energy exchange mechanisms … how do you make sense of it all to figure out what’s going on?

Alex is a climate scientist and a physical oceanographer working on the role of the ocean in the climate system, in particular how the ocean will change in the future and what effect this has on the critters that live there. His research includes understanding how the East Australian Current will accelerate in the future, simulating how we can use virtual tuna in ocean simulations to guide sustainable fisheries and explain how a rising air in the tropical Indian Ocean can generate a marine heatwave in the South Atlantic.

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Associate Prof. Alex Sen Gupta, climate researcher at the University of UNSW, speaking to students at the 40th Professor Harry Messel International Science School, ISS2019: Frontier Science — The University of Sydney, Australia, July 2019.

Sea Shepherd’s #FightForTheBight

October 9, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

A group of Australia’s surfing legends are standing with the Sea Shepherd in the #FightForTheBight at a critical point in history.

Norweigan oil-giant Equinor has submitted their revised Environment Plan to the Government regular NOPSEMA. Judgement is expected by November 14, 2019, with Equinor set to begin exploratory drilling in 2020.

Drilling in the pristine waters of the Great Australian Bight will irrevocably damage the marine environment. Faced with the looming threat of an oil spill, the reality of deafening seismic blasts and climate destruction, drilling in the Great Australian Bight is simply not worth the risk.

Stand with some of Australia’s surfing legends in protecting the Great Australian Bight from risky deepsea oil drilling by sending a letter of concern to Equinor here.