Understanding El Niño, La Niña, IOD, SAM and other climate drivers can just be too hard, so much easier to say everything changes and weather variability is nothing to worry about. Oh, and turn up the fossil-fuelled heater please, it’s cold today.
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From: Maelor Himbury <M.Himbury@acfonline.org.au>
Date: 31 July 2024 at 8:03:04 AM GMT+9:30
To: Undisclosed recipients:;
Subject: Daily Links Jul 31
Date: 31 July 2024 at 8:03:04 AM GMT+9:30
To: Undisclosed recipients:;
Subject: Daily Links Jul 31
Post of the Day
A new report shows an average of 100 million native animals are displaced, injured or killed from land clearing in Queensland and NSW every year, including more than one thousand koalas.
On This Day
Ecological Observance
Climate Change
John Podesta says negotiations ‘to find a path forward’ continue with urgent discussions planned for Cop29
Researchers call for immediate action to reduce methane emissions and avert dangerous escalation in climate crisis
Report finds 13 member states generated more energy from wind and solar power than coal and gas for first time in 2024
Global temperatures hit unprecedented highs this week, raising alarms about the planet’s future stability.
CapturePoint Solutions, initially denied twice by the U.S. Forest Service, may soon gain approval to store millions of tons of carbon dioxide beneath national forests due to a proposed rule change.
Two Danish researchers, Peter and Susanne Ditlevsen, forecast the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation may collapse as early as 2057, raising concerns about severe global climate impacts.
National
Australia could become a major supplier for greener plane fuel after finance, farming and fuel firms signed a deal to investigate its production.
Most people in the world live under light-polluted skies. Our interactives show you how even simple changes can bring the stars back into view.
AFR editorial
Green subsidies are not enough when green metals will be harder to mine economically and other have major reserves.
Kat Lucas-Healey
The 2024 season of MasterChef Australia, one of the most popular Aussie primetime lifestyle shows, brought with it a controversial sponsor in the Australian Gas Network (AGN).
Lesley Hughes
One of the most significant achievements of the 26th United Nations climate conference in Glasgow (COP26) three years ago was the launch of the Global Methane Pledge. The goal is to reduce global methane emissions at least 30% by 2030.
Carly Tozer and James Risbey
In the past few years in Australia, seasonal rainfall and temperatures have left a lot of people confused. Sometimes, the hot, dry conditions usually associated with an El Niño have not eventuated. Similarly, there have been years where a La Niña did not lead to the cool, wet conditions expected.
Bernard Njindan Iyke
Even now, decades after we first began trying to avert the worst of global warming, more than 80% of the world’s total energy comes from fossil fuels.
Royce Kurmelovs
In a new book, journalist Royce Kurmelovs look at the origins of the Australian petroleum industry, investigating what these companies knew about climate change when, and how they learnt to wield influence.
Bruce Mountain
In an excellent post last week, Renew Economy editor Giles Parkinson took issue with having been forced onto expensive time-of-use tariffs after a half-hourly interval (“smart”) meter was installed at his house.
Victoria
A Victorian government scheme designed to fast-track renewable projects is leaving those wanting to appeal approvals with limited options for recourse.
The Pathway to Clean Indoor Air in Victoria could speed up the end of the current pandemic and help us prepare for the next one. But improving indoor air quality won’t just bring health benefits — it could also boost businesses’ bottom lines.
A map identifying which parts of Victoria are best suited to host future renewable energy projects has revealed that the wind farm “no go zones” introduced by former Coalition premier Ted Baillieu more than a decade ago are still in place.
New South Wales
Premier Chris Minns has given environmentalists and activist councils a major concession on shark nets even as his government insists that it is striking “the right balance” between protecting marine life and humans.
Queensland
Beleaguered state-owned CS Energy spent $38m of taxpayers’ money hiring lawyers over the past two years, including to fight the release of the landmark report into the company’s woes.
The state government’s centrepiece renewable energy project could cost up to $24bn based on the reliability of early estimates.
Felicity Caldwell
Meet the kids who wake up early before their parents, get dressed and make themselves breakfast because they’re excited to travel to school. The secret? It’s free and totally joyful.
South Australia
Construction on a $120m timber recycling mill – one of Australia’s largest – will go ahead after a new company came to an agreement with the local council.
Tasmania
Sam Ralph says he felt a real sense of excitement when a sprawling green hub for his community on Hobart’s eastern shore was proposed three years ago, but a plan for an AFL training centre has him, and others, worried.
Tweety the yellow-tailed black cockatoo is mostly yellow due to a rare condition. While that has resulted in it being shunned by its kin in the wild, collectors see Tweety as a prize — and that is a problem.
A controversial Tasmanian wind farm whose proponent concedes it could kill 81 endangered eagles has secured development approval, shifting the focus to Tanya Plibersek, who will have the final say.
A South Nietta farmer has lost a legal battle against a neighbouring private hydro scheme, which he claimed was flooding and damaging his land
Western Australia
The federal government is reviewing a US-backed company’s fracking proposal in the Kimberley, sparking environmental and cultural concerns.
Sustainability
The fire sparked by the car is now the sixth largest wildfire in Californian history, across more than 149,000 hectares and only 12 per cent contained.
The men’s triathlon at the Paris Olympics that was due to take place this afternoon, Australian time, has been postponed because pollution levels in the River Seine remain too high.
Unboxing and haul videos are the norm on social media, which makes ‘underconsumption core’ a surprising new trend.
Which packaging type for a 12-ounce, single-serve container of orange juice would you choose as the most sustainable option: Aluminum/canned, made with recycled material; Carton, described as biodegradable/compostable; Glass, 100% recyclable; or Plastic, described as biodegradable/compostable?
Kenneth Mohammed
Regions’ vast potential is being blocked by the need for better investments, key partnerships and reforms to global finance
John Quiggin
Back in 1999, Forbes magazine ran a piece headlined, Dig more coal — the PCs are coming. The naysayers are at it again.
Nature Conservation
Audit of Environmental Improvement Plan finds it inadequate as government announces overhaul of goals
Conservation charity raises alarm over climate crisis after wet spring and summer dampen mating chances
Monarch butterflies in Northern California are adapting to a changing climate by embracing an unexpected strategy: breeding in the winter. The shift could be key to the survival of the iconic insect, according to a new study.
Our increasing demand for metals and minerals is putting over four thousand vertebrate species at risk, with the raw materials needed for clean energy infrastructure often located in global biodiversity hotspots, a study has found.
Scientists are using new technology to help endangered animals by listening to their sounds.
The Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs called on Monday for both levels of government – BC and Canada’s federal authorities – to take immediate action on the severe impacts of Alaskan interceptions on non-Alaskan-origin salmon.
Maelor Himbury | Library Volunteer
Australian Conservation Foundation | www.acf.org.au
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