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  • Climate News: Gathering climate news from around the world - the U.S., Europe, Australia, the Middle East - no place, anywhere is isolated ffrom the impact of global warming

    Climate News: Gathering climate news from around the world - the U.S., Europe, Australia, the Middle East - no place, anywhere is isolated ffrom the impact of global warming
    2024/10/26
    There is no need to search the world for news about what's happening with the climate crisis - the stories are 'banging the door down'. "Hurricane misinformation is just one piece of America’s rumor habit"; "Everyone loves rooftop solar panels. But there’s a problem."; "Once we pass 1.5°C of global warming, there is no going back"; "Climate change top of the agenda as Samoa hosts Commonwealth meeting"; "Landfill methane is a big climate problem. Here are some easy solutions."; "‘A Royal Park in the sky’: Reece pledges seed funding for rooftop garden plan"; "UNCOMMON WEALTH: Fossil Fuel Expansion in the Commonwealth Dominated by Three Wealthy Countries"; "Pollution From World’s Militaries in Spotlight at UN Summit"; "Transport Minister “Sick and Tired” of Funding Cycleways"; "Wartime emissions rage, but no one’s counting them"; "A Heat Pump Can Cut Your Emissions. But Read This Before You Switch."; "‘The waters become corrupt, the air infected’: here’s how Ancient Greeks and Romans grappled with environmental damage"; "Adelaide launches bid to host Cop31 climate conference in 2026"; "'Little recognition of this threat': Climate report condemns government inaction"; "Our leaders are collaborators with fossil fuel colonialists. This is the source of our communal dread"; "As climate disasters grow, early warning systems become essential"; "Climate disasters challenge right to safe and adequate housing"; "Water gushes through sand dunes after a rare rainfall in the Sahara desert"; "Greening of Antarctica Is Another Sign of Significant Climate Shift on the Frozen Continent"; "Australia facing one of the hottest summers on record, according to BOM prediction"; "As hurricane seasons worsen, taxpayers subsidize people to live in risky areas"; "Hurricane Helene destroyed Asheville’s flourishing arts community. Can they rebuild what was lost?"; "How the ‘climate voter’ might matter in a down-to-the-wire US election"; "
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  • Event: Reporting on the many costs of war during the climate crisis

    Event: Reporting on the many costs of war during the climate crisis
    2024/10/19

    Afflicted by the tyranny of the immediate journalists around the world, report on conflicts and try to tell their stories about the tragedy of war while integrating the exploding costs of climate change.

    No one group is more aware of this challenge than those behind Covering Climate Now and so to further understand this dilemma it staged the press briefing "War and Climate Change".

    Neta C. Crawford, who was at Brown University when she wrote the paper: "Pentagon Fuel Use, Climate Change, and the Costs of War" was one of three reporters on the panel.

    Following that theme was an opinion piece from Politico Magazine by Sherri Goodman and Leah Emanuel: "Why You Won’t Hear the Military Arguing About Climate Change".
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  • Climate News: Good and encouraging news in the climate space can be rare and almost impossible find and then along come Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

    Climate News: Good and encouraging news in the climate space can be rare and almost impossible find and then along come Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
    2024/10/17
    Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, the author of "What If We Get it Right?", has been described as the"rock star" of the climate movement. Here, she appears on "Climate One" with Bill McKibben and Abigail Dillen. "Hot, wet summers becoming the norm in Australia"; "Pollution from cremations is set to double. Can saying goodbye be a greener process?"; "Australia still a contender in green hydrogen race, says BP"; "‘Gas is here to stay’: Opposition pledges public funds for fossil fuels": "The one simple change you can make to cut household bills"; "When money’s tight, we can’t afford to worry about our costliest threat"; "Why might people believe in human-made hurricanes? Two conspiracy theory psychologists explain"; "Will the Earth warm by 2°C or 5.5°C? Either way it’s bad, and trying to narrow it down may be a distraction"; "Another major climate conference helps a despotic regime"; "Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson"; "What if we Act as if We Love the Future"; "New evidence says gas exports damage the climate even more than coal. It’s time Australia took serious action"; "Fossil fuels could become cheaper and more abundant, says IEA"; "Coalition pledge to subsidise AusMYCtralia’s most expensive form of energy makes ‘no sense’, Labor says"; "Queensland Premier Steven Miles is promising to hold a vote on nuclear power. Here’s why"; "How do solar railways work? Startup gets green light for pilot project in Switzerland"; "UK Faces Second-Worst Harvest on Record Amid Climate Change"; "Hurricane Milton costs Florida billions in damage and wreaks havoc on countless lives"; "Trump Signs Order Rolling Back Environmental Rules on Infrastructure"; "The world wants climate action"; "Can energy-rich Pennsylvania chart a path toward decarbonization?"; "3,000 risk experts and 20,000 citizens name climate change as number one threat facing the world"; "This farmer was skeptical about solar — until he began grazing sheep"; "Countdown to COP29 – NDCs 3.0 and the path to 1.5°C"; "Water industry ownership should be decided by citizens’ assembly, new bill says"; "Supreme Court clears way for Biden’s plan to cut power plant emissions".
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  • Climate News: 'Nature positive' - It can be anything you want, Executive Director of The Australia Institute, Richard Denniss

    Climate News: 'Nature positive' - It can be anything you want, Executive Director of The Australia Institute, Richard Denniss
    2024/10/14
    Richard Denniss (pictured), the Executive Director of The Australia Institute laughingly said in an ABC interview, that Nature Positive can be anything you want it to be. And on the 7:00 am podcast, we are told "Why Plibersek’s "nature positive" plans won’t fix the environment". "Is our Government less “nature positive” than a mining magnate?"; "Eighteen years since warning of climate refugee crisis, Albanese has the power to do something, but not the will"; "Weeks after Hurricane Helene, many remain missing in the mountains"; "Some Australian states are discovering what happens when they have too much rooftop solar"; "They are relics of the Gondwana age but five years after Australia’s black summer these trees are dying a ‘long, slow death’"; "As the UAW Moves Into Battery Plants, New Research Shows the Shift to EVs Doesn’t Lead to Job Losses"; "Is Your Company Losing Money Due to Climate Change? Consider Moving to the Midwest, Survey Says"; "The First Gas Utility Sued for Climate Deception"; "Companies That Fought Climate Action Now Accused of Price Gouging Hurricane Milton Evacuees"; "State of Queensland: Disaster Ground Zero"; "Insurance is failing hurricane survivors: ‘People thought they were covered’"; "Fears for future of ski tourism as resorts adapt to thawing snow season"; "Will the Earth warm by 2°C or 5.5°C? Either way it’s bad, and trying to narrow it down may be a distraction''; "Rushed response to oil and gas exploration led to testy select committee"; "King Charles will not attend Cop29 climate meeting, palace confirms"; "Big EV bus revolution: what you need to know and Chinese companies’ role in it"; "Money Pit" with George Monbiot; "How to Prepare for Extreme Weather With Community-Powered Resilience"; "Fund green energy schemes with bonds, urges think tank"; "As Climate Warms, More Are Asking: Should I Have Kids?"; "FEMA maps missed parts of North Carolina devastated by Hurricane Helene, Post analysis shows"; "Romanian authorities beef up preventative measures after devastating flooding"; "Weeks after Hurricane Helene, many remain missing in the mountains"; "These 5 ‘post-truth’ claims are fuelling the water wars in Australia"; "Australian Security Leaders Climate Group calls for overhaul of federal government's climate threat preparedness strategy".
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  • Climate News: Pragmatist or purist? Senior Fellow with the World Resources Insitute, Dr Karl Hausker, explains the difference

    Climate News: Pragmatist or purist? Senior Fellow with the World Resources Insitute, Dr Karl Hausker, explains the difference
    2024/10/12
    A Senior Fellow with the World Resources Institute, Dr Karl Hausker (pictured), delivered a public lecture on October 10 at the University of Melbourne on "Recent developments in US climate policy." And it was during the lecture, thanks to what Dr Hausker said, that I realised I was a purist as opposed to being a pragmatist when it came to my approach to the climate crisis. "Earth’s ‘vital signs’ show humanity’s future in balance, say climate experts"; "‘It’s mindblowing’: US meteorologists face death threats as hurricane conspiracies surge"; "Explainer: How hotter oceans can fuel more intense Atlantic hurricanes"; "25 of 35 Vital Signs for Earth Have Reached Record Extremes, Scientists Warn"; "Global Deforestation Increased in 2023, Report Finds"; "BP Scraps Target of Reducing Oil Production by 2030"; "A 20-Foot Sea Wall? Miami Faces the Hard Choices of Climate Change."; "‘It’s almost beyond belief’: Findings blast Australia’s biggest carbon offset scheme"; "‘Earth is sending out an SOS’: the battle to reverse wildlife losses"; "Florida’s governor prepared for this inevitable storm by burying his head"; "Anatomy of a monster: Inside the one-in-1000-year hurricane that smashed Florida"; "Tanya Plibersek defends Aboriginal heritage order blocking ‘irreversible damage’ of goldmine tailings dam"; "You’re probably underestimating the willingness of your fellow citizens to act on climate"; "Queensland’s LNP leader David Crisafulli says plan to end coal energy by early 2030s is ‘fanciful"; "In a comparison of life-cycle emissions, EVs crushed combustion cars"; "From the sea to your plate: how to choose more sustainable salmon"; "Solar panel prices have fallen by around 20% every time global capacity doubled"; "At least 18 people dead in Hurricane Milton’s aftermath"; "Hurricane Milton: Flooded industrial sites and toxic chemical releases are a silent, growing threat"; "Meteorologists Get Death Threats as Hurricane Milton Conspiracy Theories Thrive"; "Hurricane Milton has left two worlds in its wake. Elon Musk lives in one of them. The other is called reality"; "How we created a beautiful native wildflower meadow in the heart of the city using threatened grassland species"; "Ocean Warming Has Doubled in Past 20 Years: EU Copernicus Report"; "The renewable energy hidden in our wastewater ponds – here’s how it could work"; "New Energy Outlook2024"; "Rebates for buying e-bikes and e-scooters are good but unlikely to greatly boost sustainable transport on their own"; "Global River Flows Fell to Record Lows in 2023, WMO Report Says".
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  • Event: Victoria's Shadow Energy Minister David Davis talks up bioenergy at the Shepparton forum of the Victorian Bioenergy Network

    Event: Victoria's Shadow Energy Minister David Davis talks up bioenergy at the Shepparton forum of the Victorian Bioenergy Network
    2024/10/11

    Victoria's Shadow Minister for Energy, Affordability and Security, David Davis (pictured) was the keynote speaker at the recent Victoria Bioenergy Network forum in Shepparton.

    Nearly 100 people enjoyed the forum at Shepparton's Carrington Hotel, being welcomed by the network's president, "Elizabeth Lewis-Gray".

    During his address, Mr Davis mentioned a Volts podcast on which Victorian Minister for Climate Action, Lily D’Ambrosio, talks about "Transitioning off of fossil gas in Australia".

    The scene for the day-long conference was set by the Member for Northern Victoria Region, Wendy Lovell, and the CEO of the "Committee for Greater Shepparton", Linda Nieuwenhuizen.
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  • Climate News: Tim Winton puts pen to paper and launches his readers into a dystopian future

    Climate News: Tim Winton puts pen to paper and launches his readers into a dystopian future
    2024/10/07
    Prolific Australian writer, Tim Winton, has published "Juice" and in doing so has unveiled a dystopian future - "Can Tim Winton’s new book save us? With six grandkids, he had to try"; "Tim Winton goes cli-fi – his dystopian novel Juice breaks new ground to face the climate emergency"; "Why Tanya Plibersek is ‘absolutely prepared to put the blowtorch on Peter Dutton’"; "Hurricane Milton aims at Florida as Helene recovery continues"; "Why Hurricane Helene Could Finally Change the Conversation Around Climate Change"; "Florida faces the daunting prospect of another strong hurricane"; "The People Fleeing Climate Disasters Are Going to Transform the American South"; "In Georgia, another hurricane disaster unfolds. And it’s hardly the first time."; "What is the Nature Positive Summit?"; "Govt advised repealing gas ban likely to breach trade deals"; "Absolutely world-leading:” Why Australia is leading the charge away from baseload power"; "More than 150 dead after Hurricane Helene dumps over 40tn gallons of rain"; "Air conditioning is a moral imperative"; "How to stop climate change"; "Desperate to find Grandma, a family hit the road with bikes and chain saws"; "New research reveals why the mighty Darling River is drying up – and it’s not just because we’re taking too much water"; "Helene cast a pall over the Blue Ridge".
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