The podcast "The Good You Can Do"  is worth a listen: "What is the best way to take action on climate change?".

And the Canary Media podcast, Political Climate asks the question: "Are the Paris climate goals still within reach?".

Other Quick Climate Links for today are:

"‘It’s happening now’: how rising sea levels are causing a US migration crisis";

"I was targeted by Murdoch-owned media for supporting independent candidates and their climate agendas";

"Climate change is our greatest health challenge – we must act to protect future generations";

"Wars, floods and pestilence: These horrors do have an economic upside";

"Governments must heed IPCC final warning";

"Driver found dead in Sydney floodwaters";

"Pinterest bans all climate misinformation on its platform";

"Federal election 2022: Angus Taylor slams Labor for wanting to host United Nations climate summit";

"NSW boosts size of first wind and solar tender after early coal exit";

"Greens aim for negative emissions with generous floor price for carbon offsets";

"Man found dead in NSW as Queensland flood victims face means test to access recovery funds";

"Demand for electric vehicles rising but battery costs, policy inertia keep prices high";

"Scenic flyers didn't think about emissions";

"Earth's CO2 levels to hit alarming milestone";

"'Superblooms of fungus': How climate change is making valley fever worse";

"Climate change, mental health services, a better education system: what marginalised young people told us needs to be fixed";

"What would it take to get Australians to buy electric cars? Canberra provides a guide";

"Another day, another flood: preparing for more climate disasters means taking more personal responsibility for risk";

"IPCC report: how New Zealand could reduce emissions faster and rely less on offsets to reach net-zero";

"‘Learning to live with it’? From Covid to climate breakdown, it’s the new way of failing";

"British energy security strategy";

"Youth on the mic";

"How climate-friendly is an electric car? It all comes down to where you live";

"Time’s up: why Australia has to quit stalling and wean itself off fossil fuels";

"ExxonMobil Announces $10 Billion Oil Investment the Same Day IPCC Signals End for Fossil Fuels";

"Biden’s Call to Increase LNG Export Capacity on Gulf Coast is Tantamount To Sarah Palin’s Call to ‘Drill Baby Drill’ According to Environmental Advocates";

"It’s Time for a Net Zero Building Boom";

"UN weather agency to spearhead 5 year early warning plan, boosting climate action";

"Evacuation ahead of natural disasters: Evidence from cyclone Phailin in India and typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines";

"Climate change as observed in the Bay of Bengal";

"Cyclone Amphan highlights the value of multi-hazard early warnings";

"European Floods Are Latest Sign of a Global Warming Crisis";

"Floods Thrust Climate Change to Center of German Campaign as Toll Mounts";

"WMO Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes";

"Climate change: Wind and solar reach milestone as demand surges";

"Yes, Colonialism Caused Climate Change, IPCC Reports";

"Another Variable in the Winemaking Process: Climate Change";

"Sweden set to be world’s first country to target consumption-based emission cuts";

"Costa Rica’s ‘leave it in the ground’ policy in doubt after election":

"Saudi Arabia dilutes fossil fuel phase-out language with techno-fixes in IPCC report";

"Five takeaways from the IPCC’s report on limiting dangerous global heating";

"In doubling adaptation finance, ‘champions’ aim to avoid repeat of $100bn failure";

"Climate science and financial risk: Forging a path to more climate-resilient businesses";

"Carbon capture and storage: is it a solution for the climate crisis, or a distraction from taking effective climate action?";

"Fan Plastic! How Plastic Waste Could Be Used To Grab CO2";

"Hundre

Bruce Willis (pictured) is well known to moviegoers and will retire from acting because of aphasia  - the troubles he experiences are well known to the host of Climate Conversations, Robert McLean.

Learn more about aphasia from the National Aphasia Association's story - "Understanding Bruce Willis’s Aphasia Announcement".

Hear about the devastation caused by New South Wales floods at Cabbage Tree island in an RN Breakfast interview by Patricia Karvelas -  "NSW Floods devastate Cabbage Tree Island".

Listen/watch the YouTube clip "We WILL Fix Climate Change!".

Other Quick Climate Links for today are:

"Alarm that IPCC WGIII report on climate mitigation accepts overshoot of 1.5°C and relies on unproven technofixes that won’t curb runaway climate change";

"IPCC: New climate report shows accelerating impacts, yet rich countries tried to water down text";

"A Deadly Ring of Coal: VALE’s poisoned gift to Mozambique";

"Testimonies as groups build widows’ capacity on sustainable ‘ugu’ farming";

"Towards a Just Transition from Coal in Australia?";

"Action on environment report card stalls as government slow to release";

"Join the #ClimateActionNow day of action";

"How an ex-coalmining town is turning to ecotourism to rebuild its economy";

"Some young adults are worried about having kids";

"12 books on racial, gender, and environmental/climate justice";

"Russia Is Finished as a Major Energy Power";

"Top 10 clean energy stories from Canary’s first year";

"Carbon removal now ​‘unavoidable’ part of fighting climate change, UN says";

"Experts say blending hydrogen into gas pipelines won’t work";

"Woodside's controversial Scarborough LNG project gets final approval amid climate warnings";

"Greens launch $6.1 billion electric vehicle policy in new election pitch";

"Coastal erosion has south coast residents fearing they are one bad storm away from beaches disappearing";

"Flood evacuation orders issued across NSW as Sydney surpasses average annual rainfall";

"Climate Change and the Future of Our Cities";

"Bumper Wheat Crop Looms Again in Australia on Ample Rains";

"Climate change poses looming health crisis";

"The 1.5-Degree Goal Is All But Dead";

"The Left’s Climate Playbook Is Already Outdated";

"Crossbench warn Morrison, Albanese there will be ‘no deals’ in a hung parliament";

"Time’s up: why Australia has to quit stalling and wean itself off fossil fuels";

"On top of drastic emissions cuts, IPCC finds large-scale CO₂ removal from air will be “essential” to meeting targets";

"Scientists have just told us how to solve the climate crisis – will the world listen?";

"Why is the UK government backing nuclear power when onshore wind is so much better?";

"Scorched Eart: Climate and Conflict in the Middle East";

"West Africa faces its worst food crisis in ten years, with over 27 million people already suffering from hunger";

"Mutual aid in a global food crisis: Rural South African women work together";

"Cities drive climate change, and can provide a solution, UN says";

"Lawmakers fail to override key element of gov’s climate plan";

"Tasmanian government accused of attempting to 'retrospectively' change law to 'legalise' logging";

"Rain in NSW continues to fall, causing flooding after overnight deluges";

"Evacuation orders issued, homes isolated in Sydney as torrential rain causes flash flooding";

"NSW rain updates: Flood evacuation orders for Camden, Woronora, Chipping Norton, Bonnet Bay";

"The Break newsletters";

"Climate and weather";

"What would following Australia’s ‘leadership’ on the climate crisis actually look like?";

"Nepean River forecast to exceed 1988 levels as flash flooding in Sydney forces evacuations";

"Past, Present and Future Climate eBook for the Victorian Mallee";

"Meet the Youth Activist Group Targeting UK Refineries";

"PM to put nuclear power at heart of UK’s energy strategy";

"Enraged,

Two Victorian farmers have successfully objected to a wind farm and their court case was discussed today on the Law Report during the story "Cheng Lei awaits China trial verdict, and Vic court rules on wind farm noise".

Other Quick Climate Links for today are:

"UN offers new solutions to limit global warming";

"Residents between NSW central and south coasts urged to brace for more rain with over 300mm possible";

"A community battery 'like a corner store': Is this the future of home energy storage?";

"Stopping Climate Change Is Doable, but Time Is Short, U.N. Panel Warns";

"5 Takeaways From the U.N. Report on Limiting Global Warming";

"Electrify Everything";

"Cut public transport fares, urges state’s top infrastructure adviser";

"‘Potentially dangerous’ rain forecast for NSW";

"We can halve emissions by 2030, but time for action is now – IPCC";

"Climeworks Raises $650 Million in Largest Round for Carbon Removal Startup";

"Coalition accused of sitting on environment report to avoid delivering ‘more bad news";

"‘Reckless public spending’: Coalition’s extra $126m for Queensland dam draws fire";

"Rain bomb hits Sydney earlier than expected";

"‘Nasty’: Power bills tipped to rise as wholesale electricity prices surge";

"EU Proposes Ban on Russian Coal Imports, Ships After Atrocities";

"Australia's plastic recycling industry changes are fast taking effect";

"Poll positions for electric car campaign";

"‘Clear message’: Labor promises to bid to host global climate change summit if elected";

"Why Technological Progress Won’t Save Us From a Climate Disaster";

"Traditional fire use is declining globally – here’s why that’s a problem";

"IPCC: We can tackle climate change if big oil gets out of the way";

"‘We are pretty much out of time if we want to limit warming to 1.5C’";

"Do you toss biodegradable plastic in the compost bin? Here’s why it might not break down";

"Natural disasters hit disadvantaged people the hardest, but we can lessen the impact";

"China is gunning for supremacy in the global green hydrogen race. Will it shatter Australia’s dreams?";

"Simulating Earth’s changing climate: why some models exaggerate future warming";

"What to Know About Seagrass, the Ocean’s Overlooked Powerhouse";

"The Ukraine Crisis Threatens a Sustainable Food Future";

"Time Is Running Out to Avert a Harrowing Future, Climate Panel Warns";

"Why a doctor feels a responsibility to speak up for the climate";

"Climate science and financial risk: Forging a path to more climate-resilient businesses";

"IPCC Report: We can halve emissions by 2030, but the time for action is now";

"Qantas zeros in on emissions with interim target";

"Australian businesses bypass federal politics as the switch to renewable energy gathers steam";

"Digital technology key to energy efficiency says IPCC";

"Green Energy Oman selects Worley for green hydrogen project";

"Farm life in the NSW northern rivers: ‘The anxiety is very real every time it starts to rain’";

"Scott Morrison refuses Queensland’s request to split $741m flood resilience funding".

Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".

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Professor Frank Jotzo (pictured), from the "Australia National University's Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions", of which he is the Director of Energy, was interviewed this morning on ABC's RN Breakfast by the host Patricia Karvelas in a session entitled: "Climate scientists say it's "now or never".

Other Quick Climate Links for today are:

"'A file of shame': UN chief takes aim as damning new climate report urges phase-out of coal and oil";

"'It’s undemocratic': NSW anti-protest laws spark a civil society backlash";

"How Officeworks is integrating sustainability into all its decision-making";

"Building a Climate Resilient Community Sector Conference";

"Stop Talking About Climate Change and Start Envisioning Climate Health";

"IPCC report: ‘now or never’ if world is to stave off climate disaster";

"UN chief attacks Aust climate approach";

"Offshore oil and gas industry to foot bill for first phase of Northern Endeavour's decommissioning";

“No prohibitions”: Renewables funds can be spent on fossil hydrogen and CCS, officials";

"Hundreds of thousands of fish dead after NSW floods";

"'Now or never' to avoid climate catastrophe, warns UN";

"U.S. Coal Prices Top $100 a Ton for First Time Since 2008";

"Hot climate to stretch Adelaide hospitals";

"Rockefeller's $105M plan to produce climate-friendly food";

"‘They are lying’: UN chief attacks Australia’s climate approach as IPCC report released";

"IPCC says the tools to stop catastrophic climate change are in our hands. Here’s how to use them";

"We urgently need to cut emissions – the good news is we can do it quickly and relatively cheaply";

"IPCC finds the world has its best chance yet to slash emissions – if it seizes the opportunity";

"IPCC says the tools to stop catastrophic climate change are in our hands. Here’s how to use them";

"6 Takeaways from the 2022 IPCC Climate Change Mitigation Report";

"Stopping Climate Change Is Doable, but Time Is Short, U.N. Panel Warns";

"Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA";

"Damages caused by fossil fuel subsidies";

"A deeper dive into 24/7 carbon-free energy";

"Charging Up: Celebrating gender diversity and career moves in climatetech";

"Organised Lying" - George Monbiot;

"Federal budget could see more money for climate programs: Guilbeault".

Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".

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RUOK? will play a vital role in helping us navigate the emotional perils of the climate crisis.

It was Victoria's turn to receive a visit from the Sydney-based RUOK support team and so it was a delight to see the group represented at the recent three-day Seymour Alternative Farming Expo.

Other Quick Climate Links for this episode from Climate Conversations are:

"Online toolkit helps Muslims incorporate climate action into Ramadan";

"A small and unpretentious fish is sending a warning message";

"New York is on the brink of historic climate action. One man stands in the way.";

"Lismore residents’ flood response was a DIY model of emergency management";

"Miner Iluka joins EV charge with $1.2b rare earth refinery".

Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".

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Australia's Climate Council laments the lost years with its latest report: "The Lost Years: Counting the costs of climate inaction in Australia".

Other Quick Climate Links for today are:

"The rot began with John Howard";

"Deadly ‘Smoke Waves’ From Wildfires Set to Soar";

"Complex Models Now Gauge the Impact of Climate Change on Global Food Production. The Results Are ‘Alarming’";

"Indigenous Land Rights Are Critical to Realizing Goals of the Paris Climate Accord, a New Study Finds";

"Warming Trends: How Urban Parks Make Every Day Feel Like Christmas, Plus Fire-Proof Ceramic Homes and a Thriller Set in Fracking Country";

"Germany’s New Government Had Big Plans on Climate, Then Russia Invaded Ukraine. What Happens Now?";

"Facts Haven’t Spurred Us to Climate Action. Can Fiction?";

"UN chief hails net-zero plan in climate change fight";

"High-resolution BoM models showed Lismore was in danger while evacuation order was lifted";

"What causes spring floods?";

"Impacts of Russia war in Ukraine reverberate";

"Two Native tribes are helping create an electric vehicle ‘pipeline’";

"Man on Westminster hunger strike fighting for MPs to get climate briefing";

"A year after floods devastated Timor-Leste, the country is still recovering as more wild weather looms";

"Lismore residents begin second flood clean-up";

"Climate change is one of Australia's biggest challenges. But according to the government and Labor, it's not so clear-cut";

"Waves wash over roads, lap at houses as wild weather hits NSW coast";

"Switching off";

"Scientists urge end to fossil fuel use as landmark IPCC report readied";

"Severe weather and flood warnings – as it happened";

"Bleaching at Ningaloo Reef puts scientists on high alert, as they test coral DNA for heat resistance";

"Victoria to restore area five times size of Melbourne with $31m boost to private land conservation";

"Threatened native animals get $12m boost";

"World’s Scramble For Energy Drives Australian Exports to Record";

"Scientists risk arrest to sound climate alarm";

"Egypt Calls on Countries to Update Their Water and Climate Plans";

"Climate anxiety: Spike in mental health emergencies on very hot days";

"Australia plans to be a big green hydrogen exporter to Asian markets – but they don’t need it";

"A river runs through it";

"Auckland public transport: Do it once and do it right";

"Dire warning on climate change ‘is being ignored’ amid war and economic turmoil";

"Australia's largest-ever climate poll is here";

"Federal Budget and climate change";

"Heard the one about the climate apocalypse? How to joke about the end of the world".

Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".

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Farmers for Climate Action is an organization mostly celebrated and applauded, but every so often someone comes along with some bizarre reasoning that obviously provides them with some emotional comfort, allowing themselves to be emotionally distracted from the impending difficulties, while attributing troubles the world faces to some other "thing", in the most recent case, plastic.

The 'plastic man' visited a stand at the Seymour Alternative Farming Expo held over three days, April 1, 2 and 3.

Other Quick Climate Links for today are:

"The Off-Grid Power System Specialists";

"Centre for Climate Science and Engineering";

"Solid aerosols in Arctic may change clouds and climate";

"As energy security concerns trump climate, will drive to cut methane be derailed?";

"The woman at the eye of the storm of Asia’s rising climate risk";

"Florida Republican bill ‘basically erases’ state’s only pro-solar energy policy";

"The psychology of climate change denial";

"Can 24/7 carbon-free energy become a global standard?";

"6 Takeaways from the CEQ Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool";

"The Razor's Edge of A Warming World";

"Coral bleaching hits iconic coast in Western Australia";

"‘Who’s talking climate change now?’ energy producers say";

"As war rages in Ukraine, Pentagon focused on climate change".

Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".

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Retired doctor, Rob Peterson (pictured), was at the Seymour Alternative Farming Expo talking with people, handing out hats, giving away T-shirts and encouraging people to vote for him and so endorse him at the next Federal Election as the Member for NIcholls.

Rob is aligned with the Australia United Party, a party he believes clearly understands the values that resonate with, and are important to Australians.

The Nicholls candidate can be contacted via phone at 0407 328 358 or by email at [email protected].

Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".

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Kate Orff (pictured) is the Faculty Director of the Centre for Resilient Cities and Landscapes at Columbia University in the U.S. and with the Lamont Research Professor at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Marco Tedesco was on a webinar today (March 31) hosted by the Director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, Professor Alex N. Halliday.

The Independent for Warringah, Zali Steggall, was on RN Breakfast today talking with host, Patricia Karvelas - "Zali Steggall: Flood-crisis Australia's most expensive natural disaster".

Patricia Karvelas also talked with mining billionaire, Twiggy Forrest - "Andrew Forrest signs new hydrogen deal".

Other Quick Climate Links for today are;

"Climate groups say a change in coding can reduce bitcoin energy consumption by 99%";

"These new double-duty heat pumps can warm both air and water";

"Even east of the Rockies, wildfire smoke harms people’s health";

"Reading up on plastics and climate change";

"Many bird species nesting and laying eggs nearly a month early, study says";

"Misinformation is derailing renewable energy projects across the United States";

"What is Sustainability?";

"The Worst Possible Candidate for Governor";

"The Long Death of Environmentalism";

"Natural Disaster Response Machines";

"A year of hope built on action";

"Climate change impacts our health";

"Supporting community-led regeneration";

"World Water Day 2022 – Groundwater, making the invisible, visible";

"Purpose-led projects can accelerate achievement of the SDGs";

"Voters say the government has failed them on this key issue";

"David Karoly, former CSIRO climate science head, accuses government of gagging criticism";

"Dashed hope: No platypuses left in the Royal National Park, research confirms";

"Wind and solar made record 10 per cent of world's power last year, report shows";

"Alex N. Halliday is the Director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute";

"Barnaby Joyce abolishes body set up to advise on major water projects after dam announcements";

"Why can floods like those in the Northern Rivers come in clusters?";

"Poor policy and short-sightedness: how the budget treats climate change and energy in the wake of disasters";

"Federal budget: $160 million for nature may deliver only pork and a fudge";

"As cryptocurrencies take hold, NZ must address the climate impacts of their colossal energy demand";

"Climate action policies a ‘catastrophic failure’";

"Solar hydropanel pulls 10 liters of clean drinking water out of the air per day";

"Veterans can fight climate change by taking jobs in the solar industry";

"A poetic look at ‘Earth’s Black Box’ of data on humanity’s climate action and inaction";

"How to move Europe from gas heat to heat pumps — fast";

"How to shift building heat to electric? NY activists have lots of ideas";

"A cut-and-paste attack on electric vehicle batteries and renewables is spanning the globe. But is it right?";

"Many of New Zealand’s glaciers could disappear in a decade, scientists warn";

"Rex Murphy: Ignore what's happening in the world. The Trudeau government does";

"Evacuation orders remain as NSW flood danger shifts south";

"Here in Byron Bay we survived last month’s flooding – but this is something else".

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Climate Conversations today engaged with an independent candidate for the Federal Seat of Nicholls, Rob Priestly (pictured).

From the "full bottle" of facts to speculation about what we should be doing, when we should be doing it and how we should be doing it - the subtle but noticeable change among our scientists.

Quick Climate Links for today are:

"Wilsons River at Lismore expected to peak at 12m, search for missing Nowra woman continues";

"Climate spending cut as Frydenberg delivers empty budget for clean energy and EVs";

"Australia gets a fail-grade for climate action, falls behind G20 peers";

"Mounting opposition to WA government's new Penguin Island tourist centre as bird population dwindles";

"Extra $1.3b for hydrogen, gas and carbon capture";

"Rain forecast to continue as Sydney clocks up wettest March on record";

"‘Twiggy’ Forrest bills himself as Europe’s ‘Putin solution’ in German hydrogen deal";

"Budget lowers tax for oil and gas industry";

"Fossil fuel subsidies soar past disaster relief, even public schools funding. What’s the scam?";

"Beetaloo Inquiry: gas is for export, Santos admits";

"NT Labor opens up Beetaloo";

"Morrison’s dam could lose taxpayers $2.5 billion";

"Lismore residents evacuate as rising water breaches levee and flash floods sweep through Byron Bay";

"Petrol, diesel prices hiked";

"Vote Gas Out: Renewables are our future";

"Am I the Mass Murderer?";

"Budget papers show Morrison government plans to cut climate spending if it wins election";

"Utility-scale solar farms to accelerate in 2022".

Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".

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