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Quick Climate Links: Climate creeping into political contest; Crazy Town tells us about the changes we've endured; ; The WRI looks at latest IPCC reports


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'Big Ideas Into Action' from the World Resources institute considers the latest IPCC reports - "The IPCC Reports on Climate Change".
We go to "Crazy Town" for a serious main course with a side of frivolity.
Other Quick Climate Links for today are:
"Two of Victoria’s biggest coal-fired power stations hit with faults";
"Climate action: Victoria's emissions reduction target for 2035";
"Enough About Climate Change. Air Pollution Is Killing Us Now.";
"Minnesota woman sees renewable energy projects as progress for rural communities";
"12 books for another Earth Day in the warming climate";
"Climate action, as patriotism";
"Scott Morrison, Angus Taylor stack clean energy agencies with fossil fuel mates";
"Scott Morrison lets rip on native forests in strange oblation to Tasmania’s logging companies";
"What Is "Loss and Damage" from Climate Change? 6 Key Questions, Answered";
"Addressing Climate Damages: A Call to Action from the IPCC Report";
"The US has more clean energy projects planned than the grid can handle";
"Amplifying the voices of artists who inspire action for climate and conservation.";
"Should we feel joy or despair that we’re on track to keep global heating to 2C?";
"We are scientists, calling for a climate revolution";
"War on Climate Change"
"Marine Le Pen’s Climate Policy Has a Whiff of Ecofascism";
"Australia’s coal export boom forecast to end abruptly amid big drop in demand from China";
"Doughnut Economics - Global Action Lab Update";
"Catastrophic flooding in South Africa kills nearly 450";
"In South Asia, Vehicle Exhaust, Agricultural Burning and In-Home Cooking Produce Some of the Most Toxic Air in the World";
"EVs require mined minerals. What if Indigenous people say no to more mining?";
"How a wonky metric became the proxy war on climate change";
"Earth 365: Is climate change causing more severe weather in Pittsburgh?";
"South Africa's floods a 'teachable moment' for climate adaptation";
"As Kenyans farm in forests, incomes rise and deforestation falls";
"Global Effects of Mount Pinatubo";
"Solar geoengineering could redistribute malaria risk in developing countries";
"Actionable research on climate change risks";
"Compound climate risks in the COVID-19 pandemic";
"Tasmania's Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station program keeping track of the global atmosphere";
"China to use more of its own coal, cutting Australian imports: analysis";
"China’s demand for seaborne coal is set to drop fast and far. Australia should take note.";
"Australia must speed up EV uptake to minimise reliance on foreign oil: Report";
"China's demand for Australian coal will decline rapidly over the next few years";
"How to build an Earthship";
"Congo nun overcomes blackouts with homemade hydroelectric plant";
"Dimming the Sun Could Be Climate Science’s Trolley Problem";
"Why are Tropical Forests Being Lost, and How to Protect Them";
"5 Ways US States Can Get More Electric School Buses on the Road";
"3 Essentials to Make Climate Action Stick";
"Rightwing media no longer wield power as they once did. So why is Labor letting them set the election agenda?";
"Wentworth climate showdown: is Allegra Spender the ‘new blood’ voters are looking for?":
"Congruent evolutionary responses of European steppe biota to late Quaternary climate change";
"How We Can Get Clean Energy—Fuel and Human Progress";
"Which parties pass the health check?";
"Morrison government’s $7.4bn in dam commitments could be ‘biggest pork barrel in history’";
"In Australia’s election campaign the silence on climate is deafening";
"Climate crisis could lead to rise of smaller bees, study finds";
"MPs to get scientific briefing on climate after activist’s hunger strike".
Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".
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