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Date: 21 March 2023 at 8:44:11 am AEDT
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Subject: Daily Links Mar 21
Post of the Day
Flood and heat: why millions of fish are dying in western NSW
How did the latest mass fish kill happen? How does it differ from previous events and how can we stop it happening again?
On This Day
Nowruz – Persian New Year
Ecological Observance
Arbor Day – Belgium, Portugal and Lesotho
National Renewable Energy Day – USA
Climate Change
We have everything we need to fix the climate crisis. But we need to do it now
The UN’s panel on climate change says countries need to rapidly reduce emissions to secure a habitable future for life on Earth.
Future generations to face four times more extreme climate events [$]
A child born today is likely to experience three to four times as many extreme climate events in their lifetimes as their grandparents did, a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has found.
Introducing Fear and Wonder: The Conversation’s new climate podcast
Misha Ketchell
Thanks in no small part to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), today few people would be foolish enough to dispute the scientific consensus on the climate crisis.
The Guardian view on the IPCC warning: a last chance to save the planet
Guardian editorial
Tackling the climate emergency needs public funding, but without socialising the risk and allowing banks to privatise the profit
Ralph Regenvanu and Seve Paeniu
Today’s IPCC report has given a ‘final warning’ to avert global catastrophe. We call on all world leaders to urgently transition to renewables
Our last climate chance: Act now on ‘everything, everywhere, all at once’
There is grim reading in the UN’s final warning to world leaders in the last decade we have to act, but there is also a clear set of directions. And hope.
Frank Jotzo and Mark Howden
The world is in deep trouble on climate change, but if we really put our shoulder to the wheel we can turn things around. Loosely, that’s the essence of today’s report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
IPCC report: the world must cut emissions and urgently adapt to the new climate realities
Bronwyn Hayward
This decade is the critical moment for making deep, rapid cuts to emissions, and acting to protect people from dangerous climate impacts we can no longer avoid, according to the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Rachel Withers
As Labor and the Greens reach a crunch point on safeguard mechanism reform, the IPCC delivers a final warning on climate change
National
Forget chocolate eggs. CSIRO scientists join the great shark egg hunt and they need help
Sometimes dubbed mermaid’s purses, these strange and wonderful works of nature are a common find on Australian beaches and scientists want beachcombers to help them learn more.
Australia must do more to prevent ‘looting and destruction’ of underwater heritage, report says
Government urged to ratify UN convention in order to protect undersea areas like shipwrecks and now-submerged First Nations heritage sites
Voters in city seats support ban on new coal and gas projects, poll shows
Majority in teal seats of Mackellar and Goldstein – and Labor’s Moreton and Bennelong – say industry should not use offsets for emissions
‘Pass safeguard, cut carbon faster’ [$]
Former Energy Security Board chair Kerry Schott warns that delaying the safeguard mechanism will make decarbonisation for heavy polluters ‘even more difficult to reach’.
Nation ‘could lead world in hydrogen’ [$]
Japanese companies have urged Australia to adopt regulatory changes to put the country in the box seat to become the world’s leading hydrogen producer.
Reckoning time in the Senate strands the Coalition
Paul Bongiorno
A frustrated Anthony Albanese summed up the state of play in the Australian Parliament as key issues are coming to the final votes in the Senate, and it should give anyone who wants to see the Liberals return to government any time soon pause for thought.
The Aukus deal is a crime against the world’s climate future. It didn’t have to be like this
Jeff Sparrow
By the time Australia gets its first nuclear-powered submarines, ecological collapse will already have reshaped world politics
Corporations hitting accelerator for electric vehicle fleets
David Ritter
A new ranking has outlined the companies that are leading the charge for committing to electric vehicles and those lagging behind.
Nuclear safety agency silent on disposal of AUKUS radioactive waste
Brian Toohey
At this stage there is little interest in how to dispose of the high level uranium waste from AUKUS SSNs, let alone put First Nations voices to the fore. This is unlikely to change while the nation’s most prominent journalists see it as their job to promote the dominant military doctrine and boost the demonisation
Gas can be fixed, but it will take good government to do so [$]
Tony Wood
There is no single way forward out of the gas crisis. But first, halt the denial and the unedifying blame game.
Victoria
What does ‘sustainable home’ really mean [$]
With Victorian homes required to meet a new seven-star energy-efficient rating minimum standard from October, it’s important that sustainability becomes easy to understand.
New South Wales
Massive NSW bushfire has led to ‘near total destruction’ of native wildlife, carers say
The 18,000-hectare Alpha Road fire in the state’s Central Tablelands has wiped out precious Australian animals and habitat, conservationists say.
Barkandji people say they are tired of fighting for the health of the river after millions of fish died in a hypoxic blackwater event
‘Logistical nightmare’: Removal of every dead fish not guaranteed
A “logistical nightmare” awaits contractors who are headed to outback NSW to help rid the Darling River of millions of dead fish.
‘Cultish’: Teals slammed for war on fossil fuels
NSW Planning Minister Anthony Roberts says teal independents’ “cultish drive” against fossil fuels will endanger people who rely on life support equipment to survive.
How did millions of fish die gasping in the Darling – after three years of rain?
Richard Kingsford
Millions of dead fish float on the surface of the river. Native bony herring and introduced young carp, as well as a few mature Murray cod and golden perch. History is repeating on the Darling River at Menindee. This new fish kill is even worse than the enormous 2018–2019 fish kill. And it’s in almost the same location.
What is myrtle rust and why has this disease closed Lord Howe Island to visitors?
Robert Park
Some 70% of the World Heritage-listed Lord Howe Island has been closed to non-essential visitors in response to a recurrence of the plant disease myrtle rust.
If Perrottet loses, it won’t be because of climate policy
David Cross
NSW teals and other climate independents are rebels without a cause up against this progressive Coalition government.
Labor says Perrottet will privatise Sydney Water, but is that fact or fiction?
Lucy Cormack
The potential privatisation of Sydney Water has dominated the election campaign for Labor and the Coalition.
Queensland
Prolonged flooding ‘hard on everyone’ but prediction of ‘amazing fishing season’ ahead
Residents cut off by major floods in parts of the Gulf of Carpentaria are facing another month without work while businesses grapple with mass cancellations for the tourist season.
NSW flood waste adds to Queensland’s recycling problem
Queensland is struggling to meet its recycling targets, prompting the Palaszczuk government to fund more projects.
South Australia
Thousands without power as wild winds lash Adelaide
Thousands of people are without power across Adelaide as wild winds continue to lash the city.
‘Nothing to be feared’: Premier says no nuclear headaches for neighbours
Premier Peter Malinsauskas says South Australians will be comfortable living near a nuclear-submarine construction yard at Osborne, as are households next to a similar site he recently visited in Barrow-in-Furness in the United Kingdom.
Tom Kenyon
The AUKUS nuclear submarines deal is an opportunity for South Australia to embrace the lucrative economic opportunity of storing international nuclear waste.
Tasmania
‘Not native to Tasmania’: Man fined after shooting 350 kookaburras
A Tasmanian man who shot 350 kookaburras because they were impacting the native wildlife is fined $5,000 — not for the birds’ deaths, but because he had the wrong firearm permit.
‘BIZARRE’: Questions remain over major cabin park proposal [$]
Beauty Point community members continue to harbor concerns over a proposal for a 73 cabin park.
Humans altering diets of Tasmanian devils, could lead to higher risks of deadly disease [$]
Tasmanian devils may be at further risk of disease due to their diets being impacted by human activity, a study from the University of New South Wales Sydney found
Western Australia
Flood-damaged West Australian national parks to shut for 2023, tour operators scramble to ‘adapt’
January’s record-breaking floods destroyed key infrastructure and washed away significant portions of one of the Kimberley’s most visited destinations.
Questions raised about the independence of BHP dust report in Pilbara town
Documents show regulators backed down on health advice regarding dust after it was “contested” by the mining giant.
Residents of a regional West Australian community are threatening legal action against Western Power after more than a decade of persistent network problems.
Rio Tinto releases second disclosure report since destruction of Juukan Gorge
Mining company Rio Tinto has released its second Communities and Social Performance Commitments Disclosure Report, outlining progress made against the commitments in the 2020 Review of the destruction of the Juukan Gorge sacred rock shelters in Western Australia.
AUKUS questions unanswered on nuclear armed ports – video
The Prime Minister has started the domestic sell on the AUKUS submarine deal, and the hundreds of billions it will cost to make it a reality. The government is adamant Australia will maintain its military independence, but the former head of the US Navy says he hopes that Australia would stand side by side with America if there was ever a war over Taiwan. Now, the Greens have raised concerns the US submarines cycling through the Perth port could be nuclear armed.
Sustainability
Green law swells Woodside’s US hydrogen ambitions [$]
Under-pressure on climate strategy, Woodside plans to develop multiple projects for liquid hydrogen in the US, part of its work on end-user emissions reduction.
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