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  • ClimateNews: Have your say on nuclear power; disillusioned with Nicholls candidates; flood insurance issues in Shepparton
    2025/04/15

    Taking the nuclear conversation to the people: "Online Citizen Assembly";

    "The Climate Council's Climate Risk Map of Australia";

    "Weather tracker: north-west Italy braces for thunderstorms and snow";

    "One brick higher";

    "Victorian Liberal leader distances state party from Peter Dutton’s nuclear proposal: ‘Our focus is gas";

    "Coalition scores just 1/100 points for environment and climate policies from conservation organisation";

    "How climate change could disrupt the construction and operations of US nuclear submarines";

    "Ten things we learned from Peter Dutton’s speech at the Liberal party campaign launch";

    "Can climate scientists save the world?";

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    20 分
  • Climate News: Democracy and the Online Citizen Assembly will play its part in resolving the climate crisis
    2025/04/13

    Democracy, that's democracy as envisaged by Emeritus Professor Joseph Camilleri and his Online Citizen Assembly he writes about in Pearls and Irritations.

    He argues, " Australia’s fading democracy calls for radical rethinking";

    "Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.";

    "The Australien Government has made an ad for the coming election, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative!";

    "Trump plan would eliminate NOAA climate research, slash agency budget";

    "Trump’s new reason for canceling grants: ‘Climate anxiety’";

    "World Expo 2025 opens in Osaka themed 'Designing Future Society for Our Lives'";

    "Fresh details emerge on Australia’s new climate migration visa for Tuvalu residents. An expert explains";

    "Scottish wildfire risk increases after lack of spring showers";

    "UK weather: wildfire warning as hottest day of the year expected";

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    45 分
  • Climate News: Cathy Oke at TEDx talks about climate's 'anti-heroes"; Bowen on Labor's new home battery scheme
    2025/04/10
    Dr Cathy OPke (pictured) was at TEDx Bendigo talking about our Cities: Our Climate Change Antiheroes’ and challenging us to reimagine cities as robust climate solutions rather than just sources of emissions. She explained that while national governments debate, cities are becoming command centers for climate action - a role so crucial that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is preparing its first-ever special report focused on cities. Through examples from Bendigo to Singapore, Cathy Oke shows how 13,000 local governments worldwide are already leading bold climate initiatives, often outpacing national action. The future of our climate will be decided in our cities, she argues, and every citizen has a role in this transformation. Dr Cathy Oke OAM is a leading voice in urban sustainability and city leadership, combining 25 years of practical and academic expertise. She serves as Associate Professor in Informed Cities in the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning and Director of the Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne, while advising the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy on research and innovation. "Understanding climate change";"A UNSW Australian Human Rights Institute report shows Australia’s fossil fuel exports are a significant contributor to global warming";"The Rise and Fall of Degrowth";"Australia urgently needs to get serious about long-term climate policy – but there’s no sign of that in the election campaign";"Reality check: coral restoration won’t save the world’s reefs";"Nations debate historic first global carbon tax as shipping faces pressure to cut emissions";"NYC and Long Island Could Lose 80,000 Homes to Flooding by 2040, Exacerbating Housing Crisis: Report";"Meet Zen, the border collie teaching rescue dogs as climate change compounds avalanche risks";"Scientists say human-caused pollution may be masking the true extent of climate warming";"‘Their determination is heroic’: Portuguese youth mount fresh climate lawsuit against government";"‘Society is at a crossroads’: 5 deep changes experts say will turn us away from the climate abyss";"In the rain-soaked South, storms portend future ‘generational’ floods";"These recycling techniques could help keep clothes out of landfills";"Pet dogs have ‘extensive and multifarious’ impact on environment, new research finds";"Why California and the West could face a ‘big fire season’ later this year";"Oil Execs Warn Privately That Trump’s ‘Chaos’ Could Be ‘Disaster’ for Their Industry";"Coalition nuclear plan will plough $58bn wrecking ball through renewable energy projects, analysis warns";"
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  • Webinar: Maugean Skate, TX-Rex, salmon farming, Tasmania, going backwards with regard climate change endeavours: Australia Institute 'Climate Academy'
    2025/04/08

    Glenn Connley (pictured), moderator for the "Climate Academy" webinar organised by The Australia Institute.

    Industrial Atlantic salmon farming near Tasmania is a story that needs to be told and understood, and this "Climate Academy" webinar moderated by Glenn Connley and featuring Leanne Minshull and Eloise Carr is a wonderful opportunity for people to learn more about what's happening in this southern Australian State.

    Also, it's an equally wonderful chance to learn more about what's happening to Maugean Skate that has inhabited Australian waters, well, 300 square kilometres of Macquarie Harbour on Tasmania's west coast.

    The Skate has inhabited the harbour since T-Rex roamed the Earth.

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    59 分
  • Interview: 'We need everything, everywhere, all at once' - climate scientist, Linden Ashcroft, who will be speaking in Tatura in September
    2025/04/07

    Linden Ashcroft (pictured) went from wanting to be a poet to climate science, although she still dabbles in poetry.

    Linden grew up in country Victoria, in Tatura near Shepparton, on the lands of the Yorta Yorta people, and is a lecturer, climate scientist and science communicator at the University of Melbourne.

    Her parents still live in Tatura, and she will be back there on Saturday, September 6, for an event organised by the Transition Towns group in Tatura.

    The Tatura Transition Towns program will include, in addition to Linden, a performance from the Melbourne band, "Music for a Warming World".

    Short films and other identities are being organised now for the September 6 event.

    People can learn more about "Tatura Transition Towns" by checking its Facebook page.

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    27 分
  • Interview: Challenges on the home farm were the catalyst for the National Renewables in Agriculture Conference and Expo, this year in Bendigo
    2025/04/04

    Challenges on her home farm prompted Karin Stark (pictured) to pull together her first National Renewables in Agriculture Conference and Expo in 2019. Now, this year's event will be in Bendigo.

    In what is a first for Victoria, the conference and expo will be held at The Capital Theatre in View St, Bendigo, on Wednesday, July 23.

    The expo opens at 8:00 a.m., and the conference follows at 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.

    On the National Renewables in Agriculture Conference and Expo website, it says:

    "This event brings together farmers, agriculture and energy consultants, peak bodies and Government representatives to share stories of on-farm renewables, their business case and discuss what’s driving the transformation of energy use in agriculture.

    "Large scale solar and wind developments present opportunities for farmers and regional communities if planned well with meaningful engagement around benefit sharing. These topics plus combining farming and solar, termed agrivoltaics, also forms part of the yearly Conference program."

    Ms Stark has urged farmers to attend the event and hear the keynote speaker, the Energy Program Director from the Grattan Institute
    "Are we there yet? The country’s economic transformation".

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    16 分
  • Climatre News: 'Cowardly politics robbing our children blind' - Ken Henry
    2025/03/30

    Australia's former Secretary to the Treasurer, Ken Henry (pictured) has written about "cowardly politics" and "robbing our children blind", along with the 'juvenile climate politics" - "Cowardly politics is robbing our children blind. It’s time to be brave";

    "Citizen Future: why we need a new story of self and society";

    "I’ve spent my life fighting nuclear. Here’s what Dutton isn’t telling you about his reactors";

    "Renewables v nuclear: the facts point to one clear winner";

    "Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it";

    "Solar panel windows that could turn whole buildings into power plants smash electricity record";

    "Energy expert slams Dutton's 'populist anti-market' gas plan as self-defeating 'betrayal'";

    "Winter sea ice in the Arctic just hit a record low";

    "Outback flood tops 1974 levels, as residents evacuate amid major stock loss fears";

    "Small town flown out as ‘dynamic’ flooding hits large parts of Queensland";

    "New York to make major greenhouse gas emitters pay for past pollution".



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    39 分
  • Climate News: Australia Football League ignores the impact of climate change as it plans new northern Australia stadium
    2025/03/29

    Climate change and it impact on life in Australia's northern parts has been ignored by the Australia Football League (AFL) as it has progressed plans to build a multi-million dollar stadium in Darwin, the capital of Northern Territory.

    The climate community is well aware that wet-bulb temperatures expected in Darwin within decades could make life in that northern capital not only difficult, but for many people, fatal.

    Senior players from the Brisbane Football Club (that's on the other side of the country, but still in a northern state) had urged the AFL not to schedule matches to start before midday as it is simply too hot.

    Here is what Fox Sports had to say about the Darwin plans: "‘A truly national AFL’: $735m Darwin stadium plan unveiled as NT bids to land 20th club";

    "Peter Dutton’s new energy plan sounds like a gas. In reality it means more emissions – and more profits for industry";

    "‘Hard to see how lower pricing will emerge’: Experts doubtful of Dutton’s gas plan";

    "The oil industry takes its critics to court";

    "Fossil fuel companies get direct email line to Trump for exemption requests";

    "U.S. Honeybee Deaths Reach Record High: Survey";

    "Earth’s soil is drying up. It could be irreversible.";

    "Seymour Alternative Farming Expo".

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    35 分