Sorry all, Thursday and Friday don’t exist. But Monday does and has news of Josh Wilson joining Chris Bowen as Assistant Minister. The pity is Madeleine King, shill for the mining industry, keeping Resources.
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From: Maelor Himbury <M.Himbury@acfonline.org.au>
Date: 29 July 2024 at 8:32:15 AM GMT+9:30
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Subject: Daily Links Jul 29
Date: 29 July 2024 at 8:32:15 AM GMT+9:30
To: Undisclosed recipients:;
Subject: Daily Links Jul 29
Post of the Day
An international team of researchers has found that nitrogen emissions from fertilizers and fossil fuels have a net cooling effect on the climate. But they warn increasing atmospheric nitrogen has further damaging effects on the environment, calling for an urgent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions to halt global warming.
On This Day
Ecological Observance
Climate Change
Energy secretary seeks to reestablish UK as a global leader on the climate crisis with meeting of Cop presidents
New research is exploring the climate impact of the 2022 Hunga Tonga volcano eruption and challenging existing assumptions about its effects in the process.
Desiccating salt lakes identified as underappreciated sources contributing to climate change
New findings will help make climate models more accurate as massive wildfires become more common
Tessa Khan
In thrall to the oil and gas industries, wealthy nations are backing calamitous projects. But the tide is turning
Xu Yi-chong
Seven years seems a lifetime in politics. In 2017, President Donald Trump announced the United States would withdraw from the Paris Agreement. It prompted Canada, China and the European Union to convene an urgent meeting to reaffirm political commitment to global climate action.
National
The temperature above the east Antarctic coastline warmed by about 50 degrees Celsius in a week earlier in July. The event, called a Sudden Stratospheric Warming has the potential to impact Australia’s weather through August and possibly well into spring.
Albanese names new assistant minister for climate and energy after Jenny McAllister was promoted to a full ministerial role in Labor reshuffle.
A virulent strain of bird flu is morphing as it spreads around the world and Australia looks to be its end destination.
A public wish list of government spending priorities is revealed in a new survey that also shows significant opposition to climate change expenditure.
The mothballing of its nickel plans means BHP has suspended plans for what have been the world’s biggest renewable energy micro-grid.
Patricia Karvelas
Anthony Albanese has made larger-than-expected changes to his frontbench. But a new study shows exactly the depth of trouble his government is in.
John Rose and Andrea Pelligrini
So you’re thinking of buying an electric car. Perhaps you want to save money on fuel, or reduce your greenhouse gas emissions, or both.
After all, for Australia to reach net zero it needs to electrify vehicles (and expand public transport use).
Chris Mitchell
Evidenced from the reaction to Andrew Forrest’s green hydrogen backdown, journalists need to be especially sceptical testing claims in-line with their biases.
Peta Credlin
Labor’s problem is that voters are finally waking up to politicians running the power system to reduce emissions rather than to produce reliable and affordable electricity.
Rex Patrick
When MWM’s Transparency Warrior Rex Patrick got a Freedom of Information request back, he was shocked to find nothing had been redacted. What’s the scam with all this unusual transparency? The scam is the Freedom of Information (FOI) process is being deployed for political purposes.
Anjali Sharma
The resource minister’s announcement on Tuesday finalised exploration permits for Chevron, Woodside and others, and granted 10 additional permits to explore carbon capture and storage project.
Jonathan O’Brien
In the affirmative corner we have Jonathan O’Brien, lead organiser of YIMBY Melbourne.
Cameron Murray
Arguing the negative case we have economist Cameron Murray.
AFR editorial
Labor’s efforts to keep Australia’s energy transition uranium mining-free amount to a self-defeating hobbling of the nation’s green superpower hopes.
Victoria
As the cost of the project soars $10 billion over budget, the amount paid to private schools like Trinity Grammar and Carey Baptist Grammar along the route is being kept quiet.
New South Wales
The political debate around nuclear energy has stirred up falsehoods about Australia’s research reactor.
ACT
The ACT Greens have announced an election promise of $50 million to “reconnect” Canberra’s natural environment and restore catchment health.
South Australia
A rat which became extinct on mainland Australia by the 1930s is staying safe from predators on an island off SA by living in one of Australia’s worst invasive weeds.
Tasmania
The Tasmanian Greens say a text message exchange between Energy Minister Nick Duigan and the proponent of a wind farm proposal for the state’s far north-west “shines some light on the real reason” behind the government’s proposed changes to the state’s coastal policy.
Northern Territory
The federal government has refused an extension on the lease of the Jabiluka uranium mine, which has never been mined or developed, and will move to protect the site permanently as part of Kakadu National Park.
Western Australia
These pocket forests are grown using the Miyawaki method, created by Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki in the 1970s, and their rapid maturation could be the solution to Perth’s shadeless suburbs.
A blind woman who relies on public transport to get around is one of those most heavily impacted by the closure of a key Perth train service, as the city’s $13 billion Metronet project rolls on.
Mike Seccombe
Andrew Forrest’s scaling back of green hydrogen projects demonstrates the limitations of what was once considered a ‘Swiss army knife’ solution.
Adam Morton
Woodside’s designs on the country’s largest untapped gas basin around Scott Reef are, some say, just another example of fossil fuel companies getting their way in what has become a petrostate
Sustainability
Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ linked to low birth weight, reduced sperm counts and infertility
Stewart Lee
Our response to global heating and the decimation of animal species is to marginalise the Green party and lock up protesters
Roman Krznaric
From Los Angeles to Cairo, the global water crisis is escalating – but Valencia’s Tribunal de les Aigües could inspire a solution
George Monbiot
In a kayak off the Devon coast I witnessed the kind of entitled mindlessness that has ravaged society, and our planet
Peter Sainsbury
The hole in the Antarctic’s ozone layer is recovering but very slowly. How to eat seafood sustainably, restoring our disappearing mangroves and cemeteries for the living.
Nature Conservation
At least 90 species of frogs have been made extinct by chytrid fungus worldwide. But a program to protect other frogs with “saunas” made of bricks is proving promising.
A “possibly unparalleled” desert, an archipelago with oceans “virtually free” from human exploitation and resting places for royals of old are among sites given world heritage status.
Maelor Himbury | Library Volunteer
Australian Conservation Foundation | www.acf.org.au
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