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Date: 16 July 2023 at 8:20:14 am AEST
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Subject: Daily Links Jul 16
Post of the Day
The physics of coal power made Australia’s grid strong. What happens when it’s gone?
Coal plants have long provided intrinsic strength to Australia’s grid. How to replace those properties is one of the big challenges in the energy transition.
On This Day
Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel – Chile
The Feast of the Transfiguration of Jesus – Armenia (Vardavar)
Gergetoba – Georgia
Ecological Observance
Climate Change
Just Stop Oil protesters disrupt BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall
Two demonstrators removed almost immediately after running on the stage and unfurling banner
Multiple ecosystems in hot water after marine heatwave surges across the Pacific
Rising ocean temperatures are sweeping the seas, breaking records and creating problematic conditions for marine life. Unlike heatwaves on land, periods of abrupt ocean warming can surge for months or years
Tucked into the hillsides of Italy, Portugal, and Spain, some of the world’s most famous—and most difficult to maintain—vineyards are heralded for their unique flavor profiles and centuries of tradition. But as extreme weather and changing socioeconomic conditions make this so-called “heroic viticulture” even more challenging, scientists worry these grapes and their cultural histories are at risk.
Paying the price: Let market forces end the fossil fuel era
William S. Becke
There’s an old saying about liars: Fool us once, shame on them; fool us twice; shame on us. We all should be ashamed of letting the fossil energy industry deceive us about global climate change. The price of that con has become unacceptably high.
The fallacy of climate change and macroeconomic modeling
William F. Shughart II
The macro economy, like the global climate, is a complex system (highly nonlinear and buffeted by random shocks) that defies attempts to model it and predict its future path.
National
Australia is obsessed with big cars, and it’s a problem
Australians love big cars, and it’s undoing the good work of the shift to more electric and hybrid vehicles.
Aussies paying the price now for an ‘impossible’ net zero future [$]
Peta Credlin
A power system that is neither affordable nor reliable is inevitable after the lies peddled for the best part of two decades by both sides of politics.
New South Wales
Residents await results of fresh sampling from NSW goldmine that breached pollution rules – video
After revealing that sampling from the Cadia Hill goldmine showed a vent was emitting dust at more than 11 times the limit of air pollution regulations, the NSW Environment Protection Authority announced interim test results from dust samples were within regulatory limits
ACT
Canberra has first day of ‘long’ and ‘high’ pollen season
Canberra’s pollen season began with a blast on Saturday.
Queensland
One Queensland hospital has saved $580,000 and changed lives in PNG through recycling
Repurposed medical supplies from Queensland hospitals are improving health services for rural Papua New Guineans, who volunteers say have been left behind by their government.
Opposition to make ‘botched’ heritage laws an election issue [$]
The Cook Government will feel the wrath of WA voters at the next State election if they refuse to review controversial new Aboriginal heritage laws, the State Opposition says.
Sustainability
Titanium oxide material lets sunlight drive green hydrogen production
Stable photocatalyst material opens new possibilities for harvesting hydrogen
As part of ongoing efforts to develop materials that could enable alternative energy sources, researchers have produced a titanium oxide nanofilament material that can harness sunlight to unlock the ubiquitous molecule’s potential as a fuel source.
Chart: The US is now exporting more LNG than ever before
As the country pushes for clean energy at home, it is still sending record-breaking amounts of planet-warming fossil gas abroad.
Environment: Australia’s energy transition pathways a shambles
Peter Sainsbury
Australia’s energy transition pathways are piecemeal and incoherent and inconsistent with achieving the 1.5oC goal.
Nature Conservation
Alien invasion: Study reveals alarming economic costs of biological invasions to the European Union
Massive costs estimated to soar to more than €142.73 billion (US $150 billion) by 2040 in the absence of effective management
Ocean animals vacate areas both around and outside deep-sea mining operations
In 2020, Japan performed the first successful test extracting cobalt crusts from the top of deep-sea mountains to mine cobalt—a mineral used in electric vehicle batteries. Not only do directly mined areas become less habitable for ocean animals, but mining also creates a plume of sediment that can spread through the surrounding water
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