Professor David Karoly (pictured) retired yesterday, January 31, from his role as the Chief Research Scientist in the CSIRO Climate Science Centre.
He is also an honorary Professor at the University of Melbourne. He is an internationally recognised expert on climate change and climate variability.
Today's Quick Climate Links are:
"Decarbonising the economy could lead to hundreds of thousands of job losses, so what can be done?";
"Farmers place fresh value on Gippsland saltmarshes to earn blue carbon credits";
"Are ills of the Arctic hitting California? Hundreds of migratory seabirds wash ashore";
"Extreme Heat Event May Have Caused A Penguin Die-Off In Argentina";
"Climate change and hotter summers endanger health of pets, livestock, wildlife";
"How a rundown servo fuelled the revival of Yackandandah";
"‘Dangerous, dirty’: Health workers turn up the heat for AGL coal exit";
"How to care for animals in a flood";
"Hottest 7 years on record. Dr Garnett Hall";
"2021 is the world's fifth hottest year on record";
"Denying science with opinions and fairy tales";
"Using Cycling as an Indicator for Urban Quality of Life";
"'Widespread and Severe.' The Climate Crisis Is Here, But There’s Still Time to Limit the Damage";
"2021: A yearly review in six graphs";
"Labor to unveil support for taxpayer-funded construction of gas-fired power station in the Hunter Valley, but it comes with a caveat";
"The US lags in the race to build an electric vehicle battery industry";
"Plastic Cutlery? Fork that!";
"Funding for the Reef: A one billion dollar drop in the ocean";
"Climate Action is Driven By Values — You Should Know The Hidden Ones";
"Labor to support $600m Kurri Kurri power plant but only if it runs on green hydrogen by 2030";
"Australia on the ‘precipice’ of an electric vehicle boom";
"How Extinction Rebellion can make climate action successful without antagonising the public".
Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".
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