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[Link] Burning Man Has Fallen: Attendees Warned Not to Arrive Due to Flooding From Storms
Read: 22/8/2023 www.vice.com
The first tropical storm to hit Southern California in nearly 100 years, Hilary, has already caused major flooding and is now moving on, spurring a state of emergency declaration in Nevada ahead of its impact.
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[Link] Australia’s big emitters could cut CO2 by 90% by 2050 without offsets, report finds
Read: 20/2/2023 www.theguardian.com
Some of Australia’s largest heavy industrial companies have backed a report that says they could cut direct greenhouse gas emissions in their supply chains by more than 90% by 2050, and not have to rely heavily on carbon offsets.
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[Link] Teen climate activist subjected to sexist and racist abuse amid federal court climate case
Read: 13/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Teenage climate crisis campaigner Anjali Sharma has revealed the torrent of sexist and racist abuse she has received while fronting a legal case against the Morrison government’s approval of a New South Wales coal project.
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[Link] Fireproof Australia: who are the radical Extinction Rebellion splinter group?
Read: 10/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
It was the re-election of a Coalition government in May 2019 that altered the trajectory of Sam Noonan’s life and politics.
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[Link] Joe Manchin Wants to Let Companies Keep Polluting in Private, Thanks
Read: 5/4/2022 www.vice.com
Should companies have to explain their role in causing climate change? There’s a simple answer, according to Sen. Joe Manchin: Hell no.
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[Link] ‘Keep the bastards honest’: former Australian Democrats leader joins high-profile group backing independents
Read: 27/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
As Scott Morrison comes to the end of a ragged parliamentary week, the organisation bankrolling independents challenging Liberal incumbents in their urban heartland has amassed an election war chest of more than $4m, and bolstered its advisory body.
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[Link] Does Global Warming Make Rice Taste Better?
Read: 26/11/2021 www.vice.com
Steamed, scorched, pounded or fried, rice always delivers. The adaptability of rice is in part what makes this staple the culinary cornerstone for half of humanity.
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[Link] Swedish Officials Call For EU-Wide Ban On ‘Proof of Work’ Crypto Mining
Read: 16/11/2021 www.vice.com
The call came in a letter published last week signed by the directors of Sweden’s Financial Supervisory Authority and Environmental Protection Agency, which promotes “stability and efficiency” in the country’s financial system.
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[Link] Australia’s only working carbon capture and storage project fails to meet target
Read: 14/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Australia’s only working carbon capture and storage project in Western Australia has failed to meet its target to lock away greenhouse gases from a major gas processing plant.
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[Link] Scott Morrison’s approval rating at lowest point since aftermath of black summer bushfires
Read: 8/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Voter approval of Scott Morrison is at its lowest level since before the outbreak of the pandemic, while the government’s handling of international relations has taken a hit over the past month, the latest Guardian Essential poll suggests.
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[Link] Australia puts fossil fuel company front and centre at Cop26
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Australian government has been criticised for prominently hosting a fossil fuel company at its pavilion at the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow.
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[Link] US oil giants top list of lobby offenders holding back climate action
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
ExxonMobil and Chevron are the world’s most obstructive organisations when it comes to governments setting climate policies, according to research into the “prolific and highly sophisticated” lobbying ploys used by the fossil fuel industry.
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[Link] Uber Wants In On All That Positive Hertz-Tesla Press
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
On Tuesday, Hertz announced it is buying 100,000 Teslas as part of a massive push into electric vehicles. This is a smart move by Hertz, because renting electric vehicles, especially in the U.S., is currently very difficult.
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[Link] Even Republicans Can Be Convinced That Big Oil’s to Blame for Climate Change
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. What does it take to convince a Republican that oil and gas companies lied about the existence of climate change and are responsible for contributing to it?
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[Link] Climate Change Is Violent. Should the Fight Against It Be, Too?
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Peaceful protest isn't curbing the rapidly worsening crisis. Some activists say it’s time to attack the actual tools used to destroy the planet. Violence can be a flimsy word—so broad as to be devoid of meaning.
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[Link] Federation 'ill-equipped' to deal with 21st-century challenges as Australia grows 'vulnerable'
Read: 21/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
More than 250 stakeholders are behind a report, as part of the National Resilience Project (NRP), that makes recommendations on topics including energy security, climate change responses, global and regional security risks, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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[Link] Extinction Rebellion protesters glued to road in Adelaide's CBD call for climate change action
Read: 20/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Extinction Rebellion protesters have glued their hands and feet to the road in the heart of Adelaide's CBD, demanding immediate political action on climate change. Traffic is being disrupted by the gathering, some of whom have chained themselves to one another and to prams.
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[Link] Climate change is a national security issue, but not in the way Scott Morrison imagines
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Scott Morrison describes climate change as a national security issue. He’s right – but not in the way he imagines. If global heating exacerbates conflict, conflict also exacerbates heating, in a dialectic that fundamentally links decarbonisation to the struggle for peace.
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[Link] Big tobacco got caught in a lie by Congress. Now it’s the oil industry’s turn
Read: 17/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Two weeks from today, Darren Woods will face a potential doomsday moment before the US Congress. As the CEO of ExxonMobil, Woods was paid $15.6m last year to run the richest, most powerful private oil company in history.
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[Link] These Companies Are Making Physical Goods Out of Thin Air
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
The Next 50 Years explores the technologies changing and improving our world. Lanzatech uses industrial facilities, bolted onto other infrastructure like steel mills and landfills, to collect these emissions and break them down into ethanol using bacteria.
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[Link] Ex-Fox host claims Facebook defamed him by fact-checking climate change videos
Read: 29/9/2021 arstechnica.com
Former Fox Business host John Stossel is suing Facebook, alleging that the social media company and one of its contracted fact-checking organizations defamed him when it flagged two of his videos, alerting viewers to “missing context” and “partly false” claims.
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[Link] Coastal Erosion Is Shutting Down Infrastructure. It’s Going to Get Worse
Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com
Amtrak's Surfliner line along the coast of Southern California will be severely disrupted over the next several weeks as emergency crews repair damage from erosion that destabilized the cliff that supports the tracks.
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[Link] Biggest US reservoir declares historic shortage, forcing water cuts across west
Read: 17/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Officials have declared a dire water shortage at Lake Mead, the US’s largest reservoir, triggering major water cuts in Arizona and other western states.
[Link] Australians are 3 times more worried about climate change than COVID. A mental health crisis is looming
Read: 7/8/2021 theconversation.com
As we write this article, the Delta strain of COVID-19 is reminding the world the pandemic is far from over, with millions of Australians in lockdown and infection rates outpacing a global vaccination effort.
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[Link] Climate crisis: Scientists spot warning signs of Gulf Stream collapse
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Climate scientists have detected warning signs of the collapse of the Gulf Stream, one of the planet’s main potential tipping points.
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[Link] Even Minor Volcanic Eruptions Could Cause Global Catastrophe, Study Finds
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Visions of volcanic disaster typically have massive, apocalyptic dimensions; think Pompeii or Dante's Peak. Now, however, University of Cambridge researchers have identified seven regions where even small, active volcanoes pose an underestimated risk to our global infrastructure.
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[Link] How Putting 'Jackets' On Buildings Can Help Fight Climate Change
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Buildings are responsible for an estimated 39 percent of annual US greenhouse gas emissions, and around a third of this energy is wasted—let out through holes, cracks and faulty windows. Enter: Building jackets.
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[Link] The Gulf of Mexico’s 'Dead Zone' Is Now the Size of Connecticut
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
A scientist-led research cruise has found that the Gulf of Mexico’s “dead zone” is now measuring at 6,334 square miles, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Tuesday, which is roughly the size of Connecticut.
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[Link] Wildfires reach outskirts of Athens during scorching heatwave
Read: 4/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Thousands of people have fled their homes north of Athens after a wildfire broke out of the forest and reached residential areas. The hurried evacuations took place just as Greece grappled with its worst heatwave in decades.
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[Link] RNA breakthrough inspires high-yield, drought-tolerant rice, potatoes
Read: 28/7/2021 www.upi.com
July 22 (UPI) -- Thanks to a breakthrough in RNA manipulation, crop scientists have developed new potato and rice varieties with higher yields and increased drought tolerance.
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[Link] ‘What can we do?’ Chinese discuss role of climate crisis in deadly floods
Read: 27/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
At about 5pm last Tuesday, as heavy rainfall continued to pound her apartment building in Zhengzhou, the climate policy researcher Zhang Jin headed out to her local supermarket.
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[Link] The cost of cooling: how air conditioning is heating up the world
Read: 26/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
The widespread reliance on air conditioning in the US is explored in Eric Dean Wilson’s book After Cooling: on Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort.
[Link] Australia ranked dead last in world for climate action in latest UN report
Read: 2/7/2021 reneweconomy.com.au
Australia has been ranked dead last for climate action in the latest Sustainable Development Report, which assesses countries’ progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
[Link] Humans already have the tools to combat climate change but we lack leadership
Read: 12/5/2021 www.theguardian.com
When it comes to the political will and leadership needed to drive the world towards a sustainable future, I’m a pessimist. Time and time again, I’ve heard rhetoric from politicians focusing on short-term goals at the expense of planning for the future.
[Link] Climate Chaos Is Coming — and the Pinkertons Are Ready
Read: 17/3/2021 www.nytimes.com
As they see it, global warming stands to make corporate security as high-stakes in the 21st century as it was in the 19th. The Pinkertons wanted me to picture myself in a scene of absolute devastation.