Policy statements and decisions by the Albanese-led Australian Federal Government appear to be trying to appease people on both sides of the street prompt confusion, anger and alarm.

The government argues it is responsive to the climate crisis and is acting appropriately through it embrace of renewable energy but at the same time backs a rash of fossil fuel projects including those at Northern Territory's Beetaloo Basin - read this ABC story: "Federal funding pitch for Beetaloo Basin infrastructure ramps up".

And Cedamia tells us about; "Engaging Australia in Climate Emergency action".

Writing in The Guardian, Adam Morton says: "Victoria deserve praise for promising a rapid shift from coal to renewables. Now comes the hard part".

Here is the link from News NCR: "Put up or shut up; can Big Oil show the case for carbon seize".

And form Yahoo News were hear: "Global climate summit is heading for a geopolitical hurricane".

The New York Times takes us deep into the Cascades (pictured) to better understand climate change with this wonderful piece from photojournalist, Ruth Fremson, and reporter, Kirk Johnson: "Life was built around snow. What happens when it vanishes".

Climate anxiety is considered by Science Direct in the paper: "Climate  anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental action: correlates of negative emotional responses to climate change in 32 countries".

And The Washington Post tells readers that: "A California city’s water supply is expected to run out in two months".

An Editorial from The New York Times carries a robust warning: "Climate Change Is Not Negotiable".

Again from The New York Times, we read about the defence for those who deface art in the story: "History May Absolve the Soup Throwers".

Euronews tells us: "Climate crisis: how beetles and fire are devouring European forests".

Jeff Sparrow (pictured) has written in The Guardian defending art protests by climate activists saying: "If you don’t like climate activists staging art gallery protests, organise something better".

And the Climate Council tells us: "Everything you need to know about floods and climate change".

Griffiths University scientists, David Lindenmayer, Brendan Mackey and Heather Keith, writing in The Canberra Times tell us that "Burning forest biomass for energy is a climate own goal".

Four reporters have combined their skills to write in The Melbourne Age: "Switch to state control starts clock ticking on coal-fired power plants".

"The future of water: a call to action to avert a global climate crisis" was the subject of a webinar organized by the Columbia Climate School and moderated by the school's Founding Dean, Alexander Halliday (pictured).

Guests on the webinar were the Director of the Columbia Water Centre and the Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Engineering at Columbia University, Upmanu Lall; a Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Director, of Columbia University Superfund Research Program, Ana Navas-Acien; and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University, Ngai Yin Yip.

Young Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg (pictured), questions hope - is it for a doomed way of life or for the millions presently without hope?

In just a couple of minutes, she inspires us and gives hope to those whose lives appear hopeless.

Greta was the young girl behind the "School strike for climate" movement that both physically and emotionally moved people all around the world.

The Green Line is a special five-part podcast series that considers most aspects of climate change with a particular emphasis on the U.S. Military which, it says, has been quietly preparing for the inevitable.

What war games are the military running in preparation for this, it asks?

Which theatres does it feel will be the most impacted and is the U.S. ready for a worst-case scenario?

Melbourne's Anitra Nelson is best known for her interest in degrowth although this story is related, it's from a slightly different angle - "These technologies help you live lightly on the planet".

From the Sydney Morning Herald we read about an idea to tax cow burbs -"New Zealand climate policy proposal includes taxing cow burps"

And from the English version of El País we read that: "From climate change denial to delays: Oil firms send academics into the fray".

Miki Perkins writes in the Melbourne Age in a story headed "What will you do to reduce the state's greenhouse gas emissions?"

Heather Souvaine Horn (pictured), the deputy editor of The New Republic that every week produces "Apocalypse Now", a publication that helps people understand our warming world and along with that, how to save it.

In her latest piece she tells us how Michael Patrick Welch had written the story "Lake Charles was destroyed by Hurricane Laura" and then watched as it vanished from the mainstream news media's front pages and she feared reports on Hurricane Ian would go the same way.

Meanwhile, The Rural Network from The Guardian reports that "Farmers across eastern Australia brace for a 'wet drought' as rain threatens major crop loss".

And from The New Times Elena Shao writes in her story "Three ways to build back smarter after Hurricane Ian" that it is crucial to take climate change into account when rebuilding".

Rolls Royce CEO Warren East (pictured) says we can't wait for perfection to solve the existential crisis that is climate change.

Mr East, who is about to resign from the English company, and who has guided it since about 2015 through rather turbulent times, was one of the many speakers on day two of the two day event, Reuters Impact.

His opinion changed dramatically when he realised the machines his company produced today, would still be in the air in 2050 and the his children or grandchildren would not be wanting to fly on something that was wrecking the planet.

Chevron New Energies, Offsets and Emerging vice-president, Barbara Harrison (pictured), has called on governments to be bold.

Ms Harrison was one of the many speakers featured on day two of the two-day Reuters Impact event.

Chevron says its Offset and Emerging businesses are turning strategy into action to deliver higher returns and lower carbon emissions.

However, some would say Chevron has much to do to right the wrongs it has cased throughout the past decades.