In The Tunnel today, we start with a clip from the United Kingdom – it’s part of a twice daily bulletin about the reality of the climate crisis, but comes from a very unusual source: Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News. Discussion follows on why this isn’t happening in our country where Sky News has been feeding climate denial for a very long time. The UK head office has all of a sudden started to give new meaning to its name, delivering news both from and about what is happening with the sky above us.

Our two guests in The Tunnel this week are a case of two sciences: psychology and physics, intersecting.

[33:10] Firstly we have Kylie Harris who is a psychology researcher. She is very much attuned to indigenous wisdom and spirituality and reveals what her studies have shown her what needs to happen as we face up to the climate emergency.

[39:24] Retired teacher Keith Burrows covers the physics and why he chooses to educate his peers and others about the physical reality of the climate emergency. Part of Keith’s education is a website that he has developed. You can find it at: www.cs4s.net. He calls it ‘Climate Science for Sceptics’.

The fascinating discussion that follows looks at many issues – some of them being:

* Telling the truth on climate* The influence of the Murdoch media in Australia* The importance of calling out the fundamentalist religion that our Prime Minister follows and its negative influence on our federal government’s policies on climate and other important issues* The value of validation: how it starts the healing process* Together we can get there

[16:39] “Voters are being duped on climate”, says Independent member of Parliament Zali Steggall as she explains for networkers in the Mass Mailout for Climate campaign what the current status is for her proposed Climate Change Bill. We play two excerpts of her talk, where Zali also pinpoints that the Australian government stopped keeping track of what is happening with the climate in 2015. “We are flying blind,” she says.

[04:33] Colin Mockett‘s Global Outlook starts off with the 6th Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report. News about this, which was eight years in the making, has dominated world media this week. As expected, its language is even stronger as to the reality of the situation we face, as well as the dire need for emergency action to avoid the impending disasters. We also learn of the implications for our Australian government.

Colin then takes us to the cut-off date for scientific submissions of updated nationally determined contributions, NDCs, to be included in a United Nations synthesis report that will be issued later this year, ahead of COP26 in Glasgow. We hear that two nations were hindering this compilation process: Saudi Arabia and India slowed the negotiations – with the Saudis said to be challenging every line, and India insisting that historical emissions be emphasised over current ones. Australia apparently remained silent on the proposed report.

Next Colin brings news from Sweden proposing carbon capture of a different kind. This is not putting emissions into underground caves, it’s aimed at capturing carbon that’s already in the atmosphere by burning agricultural waste. This would theoretically suck carbon out of the sky when the produ...