Oz GHG Output Up 3.4% 2015-2016 YOY; Up 14% Since Abbott Dumped Carbon Price 6/14

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Australia's greenhouse gas pollution jumped in 2015-16 as coal use continued to rise after the scrapping of the carbon price, making it harder to meet its emissions targets.

Overall emissions are up 3.4 per cent compared with 2014-15 and up 7.5 per cent since the Abbott government eliminated the carbon price in June 2014, the Australian Conservation Foundation said, citing new data released under the National Greenhouse & Energy Reporting Scheme.

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"This latest data provides more evidence Turnbull government policies that are supposedly designed to cut Australia's climate pollution are simply not doing the job," Kelly O'Shanassy, ACF's chief executive, said. "Instead of acknowledging global warming as a national crisis that demands immediate, serious action, the federal government is considering giving Adani a $1 billion loan for a coal-carting railway line [in Queenland] and wants the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to fund new coal-fired power stations," she said.

In NSW, emissions from the state's five coal-fired power stations rose 7 per cent in the year, or 3 million tonnes, to 49 million. "The NSW government last November committed to zero carbon emissions by 2050, but they don't have a plan to get us there," Brad Smith, the NSW Nature Conservation Council's senior energy and climate campaigner, said. "This is a disastrous result caused by the failure of leadership from state and federal governments."

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http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/disastrous-australias-carbon-emissions-jump-as-coalfired-power-ramps-up-20170228-gunc8f.html

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1. That's a crime

and a gigantic "fuck you" to all living things.