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  • Climate News: Water talk will ignite the conversation; Experts urge renewed action on future of Murray-Darling Basin

    Climate News: Water talk will ignite the conversation; Experts urge renewed action on future of Murray-Darling Basin
    May 7 2024
    The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) has today urged a suite of actions and investments to protect the future of the Murray-Darling Basin in the face of climate change, which is threatening the river’s health and sustainability. In a new essay series A thriving Murray-Darling Basin in 50 years: Actions in the face of climate change, ATSE urges more investment in technologies to monitor the river for climate impacts and in sustained governance with regional and rural communities at the centre, coupled with evolving our agriculture industry in the face of decreased water availability and accepted water-sharing policies. The essay series highlights the vibrant, thriving potential of the Basin if sustainably managed for the benefit of communities and the environment. To achieve this, it recommends reinstating a body to provide independent objective policy advice on national water management, including for the Murray-Darling Basin, to help guide consistent national data-driven decision-making. ATSE President Katherine Woodthorpe AO FTSE (pictured) said the future of the Murray-Darling Basin is recognised to be at severe risk. That comprehensive action across Federal, State and Territory Governments will be decisive in safeguarding its biodiversity, and social and economic importance to Australia. "Essays address climate change in the Murray-Darling Basin"; "Australia could play a key role: what a key Paris Agreement negotiator thinks about our climate future"; "Poorer nations must be transparent over climate spending, says Cop29 leader"; "Weather tracker: Mexico swelters under season’s first heatwave"; "Oil giant plans to move 60,000 tonnes of steel, rig waste to UN-listed wetlands"; "A Grampians town’s remarkable recovery after ‘the beast’ burnt through"; "Energy Efficiency Council". "YIMBY: Community composting for connection and climate action"; "The Loudest Guys in the Room: How the Fossil Fuel Industry Warps the Information Ecosystem"; "In ‘Silent Spring,’ Rachel Carson Described a Fictional, Bucolic Hamlet, Much Like Her Hometown. Now, There’s a Plastics Plant Under Construction 30 Miles Away"; "A Plastics Plant Promised Pennsylvania Prosperity, but to Some Residents It’s Become a ‘Shockingly Bad’ Neighbor"; "Wildfire smoke a threat to already endangered orangutans"; "Why some corals are better off dead"; "Reflections on being an Earthling"; "The EPA’s Carbon Crackdown Is Finally Here"; "We aim to call Government and Industry to action . . . . .Charter 29"; "Curious Kids: why do trees have bark?"; "Weather tracker: torrential rainstorms cause death and destruction in Brazil"; "Here’s why so many Republicans won’t buy EVs"; "Making merry: how we brought Melbourne’s Merri Creek back from pollution, neglect and weeds"; "Buddha taught us to be happy with less. How does this apply to the climate crisis?"; "3 energy questions hang over EPA’s carbon rule"; "Sometimes, to Make an Electric Car Better, You’ve Got to Make It a Little Worse"; " --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message
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    33 min
  • Interview: Professor Andrew Blakers explains, again, how renewable sources can fully decarbonise energy in Australia

    Interview: Professor Andrew Blakers explains, again, how renewable sources can fully decarbonise energy in Australia
    May 6 2024

    "I’ve done the sums. All we need is 1,200 square kilometres. That’s not much. The area devoted to agriculture is about 3,500 times larger at 4.2 million square kilometres. The area of land that would be taken away from agriculture works out at about 45 square metres per person – about the size of a large living room.

    "We can ditch fossil fuels and reduce greenhouse emissions with negligible impact on agriculture. And, in many cases, farmers can be paid for hosting renewable energy infrastructure while continuing to run sheep and cows or grow crops."

    So says a Professor of Engineering from the Australian National University, Professor Andrew Blakers (pictured), in an article published in The Conversation: "No threat to farmland: just 1,200 square kilometres can fulfil Australia’s solar and wind energy needs".

    Professor Blakers visited Mooroopna, just across the Goulburn River from Shepparton, several years ago as one of about three speakers at a climate change forum organised by the Shepparton-based group, "Slap Tomorrow".

    The convenor of Zero Carbon Tatura, Terry Court, also on the Goulburn Valley-based GV Community Energy board, joined me for the conversation with Professor Blakers.

    --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message
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    32 min
  • Climate News: Girt by Sea; Australia's security is about attending to climate change; EV charger cautions

    Climate News: Girt by Sea; Australia's security is about attending to climate change; EV charger cautions
    May 5 2024
    Those who understand climate change see adaptation and mitigation as key planks in national security and former international oil, gas and coal industry executive, chair of the Australian Coal Association and CEO of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Ian Dunlop, writes on Pearls and Irritations - "Climate security risks and Australia’s failure"; "Australia’s National Defence Strategy: Where ideology trumps strategy"; "As climate change pushes deer north, other animals may lose out"; "Startup mimics nature to produce zero-carbon cement"; "Here’s what record-breaking temperatures looked like around the globe"; "8 years into America’s e-scooter experiment, what have we learned?"; "Why India is key to heading off climate catastrophe"; "Southern Africa drought flags dilemma for loss and damage fund"; "Where seas are rising at alarming speed"; "Air Pollution Could Potentially Exacerbate Menopause Symptoms, Study Says"; "Girt by Sea: can Australia reduce its dependence on US security?"; "‘Near unliveable’ extreme heat poses national security risk"; "Study: Climate change boosted July's heat for 81% of world's population"; "Getting together on climate action"; "ELECTRIC SUV EXPO 24, MELBOURNE"; "Mom fights air pollution in North Denver"; "Welcome to the Regen Learning Hub"; "Surveyors warn EV chargers in old apartment buildings should have fire safety approval"; "Slow Fashion 101: Everything You Need to Know"; "‘Near unliveable’ extreme heat poses national security risk"; "Climate-security risks too hot to handle for Australian Government"; "Florida sees thriving future if climate resilience managed, research finds"; "Appeals Court Ordered the Dismissal of a Landmark Youth Climate Court Case"; "Loss and Damage Meeting Shows Signs of Giving Developing Countries a Bigger Voice and Easier Access to Aid"; "Policy Experts Say the UN Climate Talks Need Reform, but Change Would be Difficult in the Current Political Landscape"; "Perth residents question use of groundwater for Coca-Cola bottled water amid record low rainfall"; "Roger Cook faces defamation threat from teen climate protesters"; "Minnesota’s biggest solar project will help replace a huge coal plant"; "Texas Companies Eye Pecos River Watershed for Oilfield Wastewater"; "Increasingly Frequent Ocean Heat Waves Trigger Mass Die-Offs of Sealife, and Grief in Marine Scientists". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message
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    32 min
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