Tour de France leader Tadj Podacar (pictured in time trialling mode) wilted under the sizzling heat and he was not alone as others in the peloton also suffered as did the roads. 

Organizers are preparing to use thousand of litres of cold water to ensure the roads remain rideable - read The France 24 story - "Thousands of litres of water to stop '60-degree' Tour de France roads melting". 

The Guardian reported about the climate protestors in the story  - "Tour de France officials drag protesters off the road during chaotic stage 10".

Other Quick Climate Links are:

"Australia 'on track' to generate half its electricity from renewable sources by 2025, report finds";

"Louise Hardman's Shruder invention recycles plastic cleaned from ocean";

"Albanese’s 2030 emissions target rejected by climate experts";

"Lake Mead, once the largest water reservoir in the US, now little more than a graveyard";

"Heatwave scorches Europe as hundreds evacuated from wildfires";

"iDEA 2022 is Time to Act".

Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".

Climate protesters (pictured) who glued themselves to the roadway momentarily stopped a recent stage of the Tour de France, but the climate crisis has the potential to stop it permanently.

What began as notes for a new episode of Climate Conversations became the essence of a column for my local newspaper, The Shepparton News and so I figured I would share it with my listeners.

The 60 km ride mentioned in this episode continued on an annual basis for about a decade and at its height was attracting about 150 riders from throughout the Goulburn Valley. 

It was known as the "Toaster Ride" as midway through the course, someone for reasons unknown to me, had tied an old toaster on a tree branch overhanging the roadway.

Participants enjoyed the ride and upon returning to Shepparton, were treated to coffee and toast, which was served up as part of their entry fee - profits, as small as they were, went to local charities.

Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".

Renown climate activist and the man behind 350.org, Bill McKibben (pictured), was the guest at the regular monthly meeting of 350 Brooklyn.

Nearly 70 people at the meeting listen intently as the author and inspiration for many talked about the important role played by groups such as  350 Brooklyn.

Bill joined the event wearing a "Th!rd Act" shirt explaining that he had initiated the organization to hopefully engage with the millions of older people from across the nation and have them align with the urgent need to combat climate change. He said the Th!rd Act had been "a lot of fun".

Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".

Pakistan is suffering from life-threatening heat waves and people with no option but to work are doing just that are suffering devastating consequences - check out the story from France 24 - "'World's hottest city' wilts under scorching Pakistan heatwaves".

Other Quick Climate Links are:

"Price of offshore wind power falls to cheapest ever level in UK";

"No longer one-in-100-year events, experts say it’s time to plan for disasters";

"Will Australia’s new climate policy be enough to reset relations with Pacific nations?";

"Corporate Media Must Stop Making Ads for Fossil Fuel Companies";

"We’ve overexploited the planet, now we need to change if we’re to survive".

Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".

Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego (pictured) has long worried about climate change and is now delighted that her city now has a department devoted exclusively to helping residents better understand how to live in a warmer climate.

Senior editor with Yahoo News, David Knowles, writing in a story headed "Can Phoenix, the hottest city in America, survive climate change?" said: "In Phoenix, where summer can feel a bit like living through a science  experiment or a dystopian dare, the average summertime temperature has  risen by 3.8 degrees since 1970, according to data compiled by Climate  Central, a nonprofit composed of scientists and journalists. The city  now averages 111 annual days of triple-digit heat, and experiences 12  more days above 110 degrees Fahrenheit each year than it did in 1970."

Other Quick Climate Links for today are:

"Heat Waves Around the World Push People and Nations ‘to the Edge’";

"Alan Kohler: Australia’s expensive climate change double whammy";

"What’s causing Sydney’s monster flood crisis – and 3 ways to stop it from happening again";

"Australia’s finally acknowledged climate change is a national security threat. Here are 5 mistakes to avoid"

"Methane much more sensitive to global heating than previously thought – study";

"The downside of corporate reforestation pledges";

"Australia is woefully unprepared for this climate reality of consecutive disasters";

"Floods and higher grocery prices reveal cost of climate inaction: Economists";

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John Perkins (pictured) is a self-confessed “Economic Hit Man”. 

He believed what he was taught and told in the economic classes that rising tide would lift all boats meaning Western financial aid, primarily from America, would not only make the countries he worked in richer, but he was also helping stop communists, that the "rising tide" would play a role in ending poverty, and encourage democracy.

As he matured, John came to realise that he wasn’t in fact helping those poorer counties in which he was working, rather he was making just a handful of people back in the U.S. fabulously wealthy while worsening the climate catastrophe.

Emerging from something of an epiphany about the error of his ways, John assembled his thoughts and put them in one of the many books he has now written, “The Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”.

The Economic Hit Man books have sold all around the world, been on The New York Times bestseller list, and taken John to many events, including Ostrava in Czechia, which John explains, was a town deeply embedded in the “death economy”, but now, following the exhaustion of its coal resource, has a “living economy” as locals have transformed the old coal works into a modern and sumptuous facility built around the arts in all its forms.

Make sure you check out the John Perkins website where you can see him appear as a guest on TedX.

Also, enjoy “Music for a Warming World”.

Anitra Nelson wants to see a different sort of society - one that cares about people, that cares about the state of the Earth and puts both those values ahead of the profit so prized by the prevailing capitalist society.

The honorary principal fellow at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute from the University of Melbourne wrote about that in her 2022 book "Beyond Money: A Postcapitalist Strategy" (pictured) and talks about the idea in the video clip "Beyond Money".

Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".

Cam Walker (pictured), from Friends of the Earth in Melbourne, was excited, relieved, and delighted with the outcome of the May 21 Federal election in Australia, so much so that he was somewhat distracted when talking recently on a webinar with the Bayside Climate Crisis Group (BCCG) that he almost forgot that purpose of his visit was to talk about halting logging in the pristine wilderness of Little Dargo in north-west Victoria.

As campaigns coordinator at Friends of the Earth, Cam is untroubled in talking about climate change at work as that is one of his prime responsibilities.

However, the Climate and Health Alliance (CAHA) recognises and acknowledges that many people are both troubled and concerned about raising the issue with fellow workers, customers and management and so the first in a series of webinars about climate and health conducted by CAHA was about discussing climate change at work.

One of the speakers at the event was South Australia general practitioner, Dr Kate Wylie, who talked about how and when she and her patients talked about the state of the planet. Evidence of Dr Wylie's eagerness to do something about climate change can be seen on her website "Climate Medicine".

Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".

An exasperated John Grimes (pictured) suggests during an interview with Vivien Langford on Community Radio's 3CR that post hole digger and an Allen key will allow us to access the world's cheapest and cleanest energy.

John, the Climate Energy Council's CEO, was talking with Vivien about the inadequacies of the media when covering the climate crisis and its failure to address the issues of real concern to many Australians.

It was during the interview that Vivien mentioned Saul Griffith and his book, "The BIg Switch".

Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".

Oliver Yates (pictured) wants Victoria to capitalise on the wonderful wind resource of Bass Strait and has given oxygen to this idea through the Sentient Impact Group, a company he now heads after a long spell with Clean Energy Finance Corporation.

Oliver was one of the many speakers at the June 22 conference - "State Energy Summit Victoria" - organized by the Clean Energy Council.

Not only does Oliver want Australia to move as quickly as it can to renewable energy sources, but he also wants to see that happen as we protect other species and so his group has developed what it calls the "Forever Fund" - he discusses that in this episode and more detail about that matter can be found on the group's website.

If passion alone can make something happen, Oliver already has floating wind turbines in the Bass Strait.

Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".