July 11, 2023

Climate News: Brett Hennig talks about the 'big question'; Australia joins the 'Climate Club"; Heat records continue to be broken; El Nino is back!

27 minutes

Independent economist and councillor with the Climate Council, Nicki Hutley (pictured) talks with Patricia Karvelas on the ABC: "Australia joins Germany's 'Climate Club'";

"Australia joins G7-backed 'climate club' and promises to drive down greenhouse gas emissions";

"Protest calls on Plibersek to save 400-year-old trees";

"What it’s like to road-trip cross-country in an electric car";

"El Nino brings deadly heatwaves to the northern hemisphere";

"As some US cities confront the climate crisis, their lobbyists work for big oil";

"Earth is at its hottest in thousands of years. Here’s how we know.";

"Hot, Hotter, Hottest: Records Smashed in Hottest Days Ever";

"More than 100 migrants died from heat near U.S.-Mexico border this year";

"Climate impacts of plastic consumption in Australia";

"Some of Australia’s Military raise alarm over climate emergency in new climate change short film Home Front";

"Alan Kohler: For failing ‘carbon farms’, money grows on trees";

"Sortition Foundation";

"Coalition of Everyone";

"Antarctic ice deficit grows to size of Western Australia as 2023 shatters more climate records";

"Larrakia traditional owners pause land clearing at Lee Point on cultural grounds";

"The Post Growth Institute";

"Hexham Wind Farm EES Project Draft Scoping Requirements";

"Green manifesto pledges new climate ministry";

"‘What are we willing to sacrifice?’ A journey down America’s most endangered river";

"‘Lose-lose situation’: irrigators and environmental groups criticise plan for 2,500ha almond farm";

"Anxiety grows across Asia Pacific nations ahead of planned Fukushima wastewater release";

"Twenty years after Save Ningaloo, WA’s next cultural reckoning is here";

"Daily 2-meter Air Temperature";

"Cargo ships now have a net-zero goal — but critics say it’s not enough";

"Planes, Trains, and Decarbonization";

"How El Niño is set to change";

"‘Shockingly clear’: Plastics worsen climate crisis";

"National Tree Day";

"Indigenous rangers eye carbon market to tackle 'worst' problem of feral buffalo in Arnhem Land";

"Sacré Vert" - George Monbiot;

"Australia signs up to the Climate Club alliance, Albanese announces in Berlin";

"‘Relentless‘ advertising is reportedly behind Australia's gas guzzling";

"Australia’s annual plastic consumption produces emissions equivalent to 5.7m cars, analysis shows";

"Victorian dams are full. Towns devastated by flooding are again on edge";

"After mammoth negotiations, the world adopts a plan to cut shipping emissions";

"China is pumping out carbon emissions as if COVID never happened. That’s bad news for the climate crisis";

"New Australian laws for ‘engineering’ the ocean must balance environment protection and responsible research";

"Developers aren’t paying enough to offset impacts on koalas and other endangered species";

"Going broke and sinking, Nauru wants to mine the ocean floor".

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By Robert McLean