Climate News: The mirage of nuclear power; CSIRO: innovate or risk profits; Dangerous heat kills dozens
Nuclear energy was given a brief platform on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Q&A program and was championed by the National Party Senator for Victoria, Bridget McKenzie. "Charged up: WA town to home Australia’s biggest battery"; "GV Community Energy"; "Farmers must innovate or risk profits says CSIRO"; "Colbinabbin residents oppose huge solar farm"; "Heat wave in Southeast Asia closes schools, triggers health alerts"; "Dangerous heat kills dozens, closes schools, prompts four-day workweek"; "Peter Dutton calls for government to engage in ‘mature conversation’ on nuclear energy"; "Some anglers say Rhode Island’s Block Island wind farm has improved fishing"; "Alaska Native community experiments with growing food above the Arctic Circle"; "Australia mining at risk from climate change-fueled drought and heat"; "Mexico proudly controls its energy but could find it hard to reach its climate goals"; "I found a $2,100 EV. Here’s how you can, too"; "Great Barrier Reef’s worst bleaching leaves giant coral graveyard: ‘It looks as if it has been carpet bombed’"; "Labor’s first extinction"; "NSW to announce life extension of Eraring, Australia’s largest coal-fired power station"; "A Uniquely French Approach to Environmentalism"; "Saying the stakes could not be higher, Newsom to speak at Vatican climate summit"; "How do we define climate responsibility? Woodside has no answer"; "The Green Gas Lie"; "Repeated periods of heat and drought causing some trees to die – study"; "Hydrogen Offers Germany a Chance to Take a Lead in Green Energy"; "Scotland’s leader resigns after conflicts over climate change, gender identity weakened government"; "Heavy Rains Threaten China’s Rice as Extreme Weather Grips South"; "European cities are turning to nature-based solutions amid climate crisis"; "Majority of critical minerals face heightened climate risks by 2050, study finds"; "Countries consider pact to reduce plastic production by 40% in 15 years"; "Taxing big fossil fuel firms ‘could raise $900bn in climate finance by 2030’"; "Capital Research Center"; "Kenya flooding: Around 50 killed in villages near Mai Mahiu town"; "PM Update: Records set after highs hit near 90, with more heat expected Tuesday"; "Alaska Native community experiments with growing food above the Arctic Circle"; "New rules will slash air, water and climate pollution from U.S. power plants"; "Ford Hybrids, EVs, Transit Set Records; Q1 Sales Top Industry, Up 7%"; "Climate change and human rights: how a landmark legal victory in Europe could affect NZ": "Republicans want to plant a trillion trees. Scientists are skeptical."; "What kind of diner are you? 6 types of diners who avoid plant-based meat dishes"; "House Republicans pass energy bill to roll back regulation of fossil fuel production"; "Our tall, wet forests were not open and park-like when colonists arrived – and we shouldn’t be burning them"; "Carbon Dioxide Levels Have Passed a New Milestone"; "Retired UK GP suspended for five months after climate protests"; "Sugar gums have a reputation as risky branch-droppers but they’re important to bees, parrots and possums"; "These European countries could lose more than 30 days of comfortable weather a year by 2100"; "17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot"; "Drought, food shortages and deadly heat: El Niño has ended but its impacts are still being felt"; "With the clean energy transition, low-income communities fear they’ll be saddled with big infrastructure projects, again"; "High Seas Treaty: EU votes to ratify landmark international law to protect oceans"; "Heat Islands and Equity"; "‘A serious risk’: Mexican villagers take on cartel-backed avocado farms as water dries up"; "Pre-Bunking Climate Misinformation"; "IRA’s Solar for All Program Will Install Nearly 1 Million Systems in US"; "Why dimming the Sun would be an effective tool in the fight against climate change". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message
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