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Climate Conversations

Written by: Robert McLean
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  • A continuous conversation about climate change - news, views and interviews.
    Robert McLean
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  • Interview: Susan Lengyel champions conversation, especially those 'at the Crossroads'

    Interview: Susan Lengyel champions conversation, especially those 'at the Crossroads'
    May 13 2024

    Susan Lengel (pictured) champions conversation about climate change, but beyond that, and critically, "Conversation at the Crossroads".

    Susan, who hails from South Australia and once worked for that State's National Parks and Wildlife Service", enriched her climate change experience and knowledge while working with "The Royal Parks" in London.

    Check out the group's website and you'll learn that Susan has vast experience in grassroots activism.

    Also, check out the group's coming events and I'm sure you will find something there to capture your interest and stimulate your mind.

    --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message
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    15 mins
  • Climate News: 'Reset, refocus, rethink, climate change is here'; Geelong meeting hears about the power of letitions; Gas driven confusion and despair

    Climate News: 'Reset, refocus, rethink, climate change is here'; Geelong meeting hears about the power of letitions; Gas driven confusion and despair
    May 11 2024
    From The Scotsman we hear: "After SNP's 17 years of failure on climate change, things are about to get worse"; "Harnessing the power of coming together"; "Cool Geelong"; "Vote Climate One"; "Geelong Sustainability"; "‘Not a single government dollar’: Albanese plays down gas policy push after blowback"; "‘Paying to be exploited’: Labor has now fully succumbed to the fossil fuel industry"; "A pathway for future generations"; "Labor’s gas strategy: what is it and why do critics call it ‘Back to the Future’?"; "Government halts plans for pilot ‘hydrogen town’ heating scheme"; "I understand climate scientists’ despair – but stubborn optimism may be our only hope" (Christiana Figueres - pictured); "Billions are needed for climate adaptation – now some frontline communities are deciding how the money gets spent"; "How to Create a Society That Prizes Decency"; "‘I am starting to panic about my child’s future’: climate scientists wary of starting families"; "April Extends World’s Record-Breaking Temperature Streak to 11 Straight Months"; "Vermont Could Become First State to Make Biggest Emitters Pay for Climate-Related Damages"; "World’s Largest CO2 Removal Plant Opens in Iceland"; "Government hypes gas crisis ahead of restarting drilling"; "Biden EPA Finalizes Rules Excluding Gas Power Plants From Carbon Regulations"; "Vessel Strikes on Whales Are Increasing With Warming. Can the Shipping Industry Slow Down to Spare Them?"; "How climate change is raising the risks of another pandemic"; "A Natural Ecology Lab Along the Delaware River in the First State to Require K-12 Climate Education"; "Colorado students say they want more solutions-oriented climate education now before it’s too late"; "Aftermath of the storm: What roads, schools remain closed due to flood damage"; "What is winter without snow? Our children are finding out."; "I weep for the corals, but what I saw on the Great Barrier Reef gives me hope"; "Brazil floods: horse stranded on roof is rescued as death toll rises to 107 people"; " --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Climate News: Water talk will ignite the conversation; Experts urge renewed action on future of Murray-Darling Basin

    Climate News: Water talk will ignite the conversation; Experts urge renewed action on future of Murray-Darling Basin
    May 7 2024
    The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) has today urged a suite of actions and investments to protect the future of the Murray-Darling Basin in the face of climate change, which is threatening the river’s health and sustainability. In a new essay series A thriving Murray-Darling Basin in 50 years: Actions in the face of climate change, ATSE urges more investment in technologies to monitor the river for climate impacts and in sustained governance with regional and rural communities at the centre, coupled with evolving our agriculture industry in the face of decreased water availability and accepted water-sharing policies. The essay series highlights the vibrant, thriving potential of the Basin if sustainably managed for the benefit of communities and the environment. To achieve this, it recommends reinstating a body to provide independent objective policy advice on national water management, including for the Murray-Darling Basin, to help guide consistent national data-driven decision-making. ATSE President Katherine Woodthorpe AO FTSE (pictured) said the future of the Murray-Darling Basin is recognised to be at severe risk. That comprehensive action across Federal, State and Territory Governments will be decisive in safeguarding its biodiversity, and social and economic importance to Australia. "Essays address climate change in the Murray-Darling Basin"; "Australia could play a key role: what a key Paris Agreement negotiator thinks about our climate future"; "Poorer nations must be transparent over climate spending, says Cop29 leader"; "Weather tracker: Mexico swelters under season’s first heatwave"; "Oil giant plans to move 60,000 tonnes of steel, rig waste to UN-listed wetlands"; "A Grampians town’s remarkable recovery after ‘the beast’ burnt through"; "Energy Efficiency Council". "YIMBY: Community composting for connection and climate action"; "The Loudest Guys in the Room: How the Fossil Fuel Industry Warps the Information Ecosystem"; "In ‘Silent Spring,’ Rachel Carson Described a Fictional, Bucolic Hamlet, Much Like Her Hometown. Now, There’s a Plastics Plant Under Construction 30 Miles Away"; "A Plastics Plant Promised Pennsylvania Prosperity, but to Some Residents It’s Become a ‘Shockingly Bad’ Neighbor"; "Wildfire smoke a threat to already endangered orangutans"; "Why some corals are better off dead"; "Reflections on being an Earthling"; "The EPA’s Carbon Crackdown Is Finally Here"; "We aim to call Government and Industry to action . . . . .Charter 29"; "Curious Kids: why do trees have bark?"; "Weather tracker: torrential rainstorms cause death and destruction in Brazil"; "Here’s why so many Republicans won’t buy EVs"; "Making merry: how we brought Melbourne’s Merri Creek back from pollution, neglect and weeds"; "Buddha taught us to be happy with less. How does this apply to the climate crisis?"; "3 energy questions hang over EPA’s carbon rule"; "Sometimes, to Make an Electric Car Better, You’ve Got to Make It a Little Worse"; "Climate Change Is Making Your Seasonal Allergies Worse"; "As the Environmental Crisis Worsens, So Too Does the Safety of Journalists Covering It"; "‘Like wildfires underwater’: Worst summer on record for Great Barrier Reef as coral die-off sweeps planet"; "Federal Court hears closing arguments in Torres Strait Islanders' climate change case"; "Floods in southern Brazil kill at least 75 people over 7 days, with 103 people missing"; "‘We’re looking at losing 20% of Olympic nations’: how the climate crisis is changing sport"; "First ever cyclone confronts flood-hit Kenya"; "Over 100 temperature records in Vietnam broken in April as heatwave scorches"; "There's a soundtrack to our coral reefs and scientists are hopeful it can encourage coral regrowth"; "The cleanest air in the world is at Tasmania's Kennaook/Cape Grim. It's helping solve a climate puzzle" --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message
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    33 mins
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