
Kamala Harris will carry a big burden of expectations, but it’s amost a case that, if elected, she cannot disappoint. After all, consider the alternative.
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From: Maelor Himbury <M.Himbury@acfonline.org.au>
Date: 1 August 2024 at 8:36:31 AM GMT+9:30
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Subject: Daily Links Aug 1
Date: 1 August 2024 at 8:36:31 AM GMT+9:30
To: Undisclosed recipients:;
Subject: Daily Links Aug 1
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A new report urges the government to commit to reducing Australia’s methane emissions.
On This Day
Lughnasadh – Celticism
Climate Change
Rob Jackson’s new book, Into the Clear Blue Sky, emphasizes the urgent need to not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions but also restore the atmosphere’s health to pre-industrial levels through a concept he calls “atmospheric restoration.”
Climate experts and legal advocates are targeting major polluters like TotalEnergies, seeking to hold them criminally accountable for deaths caused by extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change.
More than 350 prominent climate advocates have endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president, citing her long-standing commitment to climate action.
Climate scientists are warning methane – a highly potent greenhouse gas – is being “dangerously overlooked” when it comes to addressing global warming. Since it was first announced in 2021, more than 150 countries, including Australia, have signed up to the Global Methane Pledge. But just two per cent of climate finance goes towards slashing methane emissions.
Simon H. Lee et al
Extreme weather is by definition rare on our planet. Ferocious storms, searing heatwaves and biting cold snaps illustrate what the climate is capable of at its worst. However, since Earth’s climate is rapidly warming, predominantly due to fossil fuel burning, the range of possible weather conditions, including extremes, is changing.
Luke Bennetts et al
The Southern Ocean is wild and dynamic. It experiences Earth’s strongest winds and largest waves. It is home to city-sized icebergs and the biggest ocean current on the globe, as well as tiny turbulent flows that fit inside a teacup.
National
Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) advises Earth Overshoot Day occurs this year on 1 August. Every day after 1 August – for a full five months out of twelve, the world will be in overshoot, living off the Earth’s capital rather than the interest.
Rio Tinto, one of the largest Australian miners, has flagged it is open to potentially large-scale takeover opportunities to boost its supplies of copper and capitalise on expectations of soaring demand for the metal in the global energy transition.
Coalition energy spokesman Ted O’Brien will call for Australia to develop a sovereign capability at the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle, along with a uranium-enrichment industry
Coal mine methane mitigation is finally getting real again – but only after huge government handouts
Chris Wright
Australia once led the world in coal methane mitigation. So why are multi-million dollar hand-outs still needed to spur on emissions reductions?
Giles Parkinson
Competition, they say, is good for the market. We can but hope. Right now, it is clear there is not enough competition in the Australian wholesale electricity market, and the big players – and some new ones – are intent on making hay while the sun shines, knowing that it is their “cherished” consumers who will have to foot the bill.
Victoria
Parts of Ballarat Rd in Footscray remain closed after a factory fire blanketed suburbs in Melbourne’s western and northern suburbs in smoke.
New South Wales
Legal organisations, researchers and peak industry groups have told the NSW government that decriminalising personal use of cannabis would help reduce costs and pressure for the state’s legal and health systems.
A majority of coastal councils will push to scrap shark nets along iconic beaches when in consultations with the Minns government around the future of the shark deterrence program.
Sophie Vorrath
Plans to build a 340MW wind farm and a big battery in the New England Renewable Energy Zone in NSW have been shelved by developer Ark Energy, following a “change of mind” from some of the landowners involved in the project.
David Leitch
Why wind energy costs have not fallen further, why New England farmers said no to million, and the crippling cost of connections and grid congestion.
Queensland
A wet year in Queensland has produced higher grassland fuel loads, which the Rural Fire Service says create prime conditions for dangerous bushfires.
Tasmania
The state’s environmental regulator has approved an enormous expansion of a TasWater wastewater treatment plants, which will cover the closure of the Macquarie Point facility.
The group opposed to a major wind farm in the Central Highlands has said a decision on whether to legally challenge the development’s approval would be taken at a meeting this Friday.
Northern Territory
Jakob Stausholm says precious cultural heritage at Jabiluka made it a no-go zone and advocates for a uranium mine were engaging in “extortion”
Sustainability
After delays, cancellations and far too much talk about poo, the River Seine was finally given its chance to shine, highlighting an important issue about the health of our major rivers.
A Harris administration could make significant strides against plastic pollution, leveraging her background as California’s attorney general and her support for federal legislation aimed at reducing plastic waste.
Using a medical treatment for heart disease as an example, a new paper published in Journal of Hazardous Materials examines the potential for medical procedures to contribute to micro- and nanoplastic (MNP) contamination in the body.
Peter Dykstra – newsman, provocateur, friend and former publisher of EHN – passed away Wednesday.
Caroline Fitzwarryne
If we are serious about changing the world t is time for scare tactics. When facts do not do the job we need to shock people out of their apathy
Nature Conservation
Central General Staff militant group previously said Cop16 event scheduled for October in Cali ‘would fail’
Experts say facility beyond reach of climate breakdown and other terrestrial events is needed to safeguard biodiversity
Levan Tielidze
As global temperatures inch upwards year after year, the world’s glaciers retreat. These rivers of ice and the even larger ice sheets which cover Greenland and Antarctica are melting – and the melt is speeding up.
Maelor Himbury | Library Volunteer
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