The ship has largely sailed on limiting warming to 1.5C at this point, barring us getting very lucky with low climate sensitivity or actively geoengineering the climate.

But there still are viable paths to limit warming to below 2C this century, as shown in the figure below:

Governments of both persuasions and at all levels in this country allow the wholesale destruction of habitat by developers which is threatening our native species yet they parade these poor creatures before the foreign press at ASEAN as if we care about them. Hypocrites.

Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert says theguardian.com/world/2024/feb…

Malnourished, homeless, orphaned: The horrors for Gaza’s children. A nurse does ops on 6 dead pregnant women to save their babies. Rarely, if ever, has any country killed, injured & orphaned as many children as quickly as Israel is right now. My new column abc.net.au/news/2024-02-1…

Thanks all for your very kind comments about my reporting. Many have asked where this is from: it's a Four Corners I did in 2014 - Stone Cold Justice- looking at Israel's military court system for Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank. Here's a link:
abc.net.au/news/2014-02-1…

Our thoughts on Jonathan Holmes’ remarks on ABC RN this morning:

'Why Diversity Is Not An Oxymoron To Objectivity' 👇🏽

#JonathanHolmes
#NoFearNoFavour
#MDAExplainer

People in Gaza are dying not only from bombs and bullets, but from lack of food & clean water, and hospitals without power & medicine.

This must stop.

I will not relent in my call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and the immediate & unconditional release of all hostages.

'We’re gradually being cornered in a very restrictive perimeter in southern Gaza, in Rafah, with dwindling options to offer critical medical assistance while the needs are desperately growing.

We are forced to leave patients behind.” doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/evacuat…

It's been a privilege to be your colleague, Nour Haydar ... your loss is devastating. Nour's leadership should be commended.

I started my ABC career at the same time as Nour. Have seen her grow into the tough, principled and professional journalist she is today. What a devastating loss for the public broadcaster. Big respect to her decision. Onwards and upwards 🧿

Carolina Lopez, MSF emergency coordinator at Al-Aqsa Hospital, shared an audio recording following the forced evacuation of staff over the weekend.

“It is getting more and more complicated for us to work. We cannot ensure the safety of our own staff.”

#CeasefireNow

Today, World Health Organization (WHO) cancelled a planned mission to Al-Awda hospital and the central drug store in northern #Gaza for the fourth time since 26 Dec because we did not receive deconfliction and safety guarantees.

The mission planned to move urgently needed medical supplies to sustain the…

Something that strikes me about Palestinian journalists. They lay press vests on coffins, they wear them to funerals. They are proud of their profession and they honour it. And yet so many journalists are silent about what is happening to them. They deserve our solidarity.

.World Health Organization (WHO) “is concerned about ‘unbearable’ strain on the few hospitals that remain open in Gaza as Israel steps up strikes….At least three areas in central Gaza were hit this weekend, including the Maghazi refugee camp, where at least 80 people were killed.” washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/…

today’s vote for ceasefire in gaza

in favor: 153
against: 10
abstentions: 23

usa as isolated on global stage w/ israel support as russia was on ukraine

'In terms of sheer numbers, rarely, if ever, has any country killed as many women and children as quickly as Israel is doing so today. But Israelis are getting no sense of this. They are living in a bubble of sanitised news' abc.net.au/news/2023-12-1…

Some personal reflections on the night before returning home. Part of me will remain forever behind.

The evacuation order pushes people to concentrate into what is less than one-third of the #GazaStrip

They need everything:  food, water, shelter, and mostly safety.

We have said it repeatedly. We are saying it again. No place is safe in #Gaza .

The level of human suffering is intolerable.

The resumption of the military operation and its expansion further in southern #Gaza is repeating horrors from past weeks.