Climate Conversations

David Wallace-Wells (pictured) is known for his book " Uninhabitable Earth " and now, in The New York Times has written the article: " Beyond Catastrophe A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View ". In The Guardian, Damien Carrington tells readers: " World close to ‘irreversible’ climate breakdown, warn major studies ". Canary Media has gone live with: " Canary Live New York: Top 3 trends in New Y...

Nicki Hutley (pictured) from the Climate Council said climate change was not yet centre stage, but it was mentioned some 220 times in this week's Australian budget and, that it was argued was a significant improvement over what had existed in Australia for nearly a decade. Read the Climate Council story: " Climate features big in Budget but little relief for cost of living underscores need to hast...

Pete Mailer has written in The Guardian about how Australian farmers are defenceless in the face of extreme weather events: " Australian farmers have no defences left against ‘extraordinary’ weather events that have become all too common ". Writing in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Melbourne Age, David Crowe reports: " $600m for disaster relief services after ‘back-to-back’ climate emergencies...

Policy statements and decisions by the Albanese-led Australian Federal Government appear to be trying to appease people on both sides of the street prompt confusion, anger and alarm. The government argues it is responsive to the climate crisis and is acting appropriately through it embrace of renewable energy but at the same time backs a rash of fossil fuel projects including those at Northern Ter...

The New York Times takes us deep into the Cascades (pictured) to better understand climate change with this wonderful piece from photojournalist, Ruth Fremson, and reporter, Kirk Johnson: " Life was built around snow. What happens when it vanishes ". Climate anxiety is considered by Science Direct in the paper: " Climate  anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental action: correlates of negative...

Jeff Sparrow (pictured) has written in The Guardian defending art protests by climate activists saying: "If you don’t like climate activists staging art gallery protests, organise something better". And the Climate Council tells us: " Everything you need to know about floods and climate change ". Griffiths University scientists, David Lindenmayer, Brendan Mackey and Heather Keith, writing in The C...

"The future of water: a call to action to avert a global climate crisis" was the subject of a webinar organized by the Columbia Climate School and moderated by the school's Founding Dean, Alexander Halliday (pictured). Guests on the webinar were the Director of the Columbia Water Centre and the Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Engineering at Columbia University, Upmanu Lall; a Professor of...

Young Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg (pictured), questions hope - is it for a doomed way of life or for the millions presently without hope? In just a couple of minutes, she inspires us and gives hope to those whose lives appear hopeless. Greta was the young girl behind the "School strike for climate" movement that both physically and emotionally moved people all around the world.

The Green Line is a special five-part podcast series that considers most aspects of climate change with a particular emphasis on the U.S. Military which, it says, has been quietly preparing for the inevitable. What war games are the military running in preparation for this, it asks? Which theatres does it feel will be the most impacted and is the U.S. ready for a worst-case scenario?

Melbourne's Anitra Nelson is best known for her interest in degrowth although this story is related, it's from a slightly different angle - " These technologies help you live lightly on the planet ". From the Sydney Morning Herald we read about an idea to tax cow burbs -" New Zealand climate policy proposal includes taxing cow burps " And from the English version of El País we read that: " From cl...

Heather Souvaine Horn (pictured), the deputy editor of The New Republic that every week produces "Apocalypse Now", a publication that helps people understand our warming world and along with that, how to save it. In her latest piece she tells us how Michael Patrick Welch had written the story "Lake Charles was destroyed by Hurricane Laura" and then watched as it vanished from the mainstream news m...

Rolls Royce CEO Warren East (pictured) says we can't wait for perfection to solve the existential crisis that is climate change. Mr East, who is about to resign from the English company, and who has guided it since about 2015 through rather turbulent times, was one of the many speakers on day two of the two day event, Reuters Impact . His opinion changed dramatically when he realised the machines...

Chevron New Energies, Offsets and Emerging vice-president, Barbara Harrison (pictured), has called on governments to be bold. Ms Harrison was one of the many speakers featured on day two of the two-day Reuters Impact event. Chevron says its Offset and Emerging businesses are turning strategy into action to deliver higher returns and lower carbon emissions. However, some would say Chevron has much...

London's Mayor, Sadiq Hahn (pictured) was the keynote speaker on day one of the two day Reuters Impact event. The Mayor, who was introduced by Reuters first female Editor-in-Chief, Alessandra Galloni, said the climate crisis was global problem and required global solutions and added that humanity had been too slow off the blocks.

Laura Chung and Brook Mitchell tells us today in the Melbourne Age how Lizard Island (pictured) is the base for significant research into the impact of climate change on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Read the story: " On a remote Australian island, a small patch for reef is as goods scientists have ever seen it ". Raed a second story by Melbourne Age reporter, Peter Milne: " Andrew Forrest is 'l...

Tom Cowrie has told Melbourne Age readers that " Melbourne's dams are full to the brim - but don't go having 20 minute showers ". Pointing to floods up and down Australia's east coast and overflowing dams, climate deniers present what they feel as they feel is "bullet proof" evidence and rest their argument upon the early 2000s statement by Climate Council member Professor Tim Flannery (pictured),...

As a former newspaper editor my instinct is to simply give you as much news as I could and then trust that you a the reader had the necessary "smarts" to filter those stories to determine what was important to you, your community and what wasn't so important. I believed that no story was correct and no story, by contrast, was incorrect - they all has their place and each was important to someone,...

Johann Hari has written a startlingly new book, "Stolen Focus: why you can't pay attention" (pictured) and although it is not at all about the climate crisis, it in fact helps us understand how we got to where we arena how we can navigate a complex future. In conversation with the UNSW's Rosalind Dixon the the author Johann Hari explained why is it so important to pay attention  to this "atte...

Listen to the Aljazeera podcast, The Take, and learn about " Coping with climate change on Mt Everest ". Aljazeera also reports on Switzerland's worst ever melt rate of its many glaciers in the story - " Switzerland records worst melt rate of its glacier s". Read some more about Hurricane Ian - " Flooding, power cuts as Hurricane Ian crashes ashore in Florida ".

Dario Vacirca (pictured) is foremost an artist, but he is an agitator and someone concerned, in a broad sense, about the welfare of people and sees their best interests, and society's generally, being served through the acceptance and application of an unconditional Universal Basic Income. Dario is simply a good bloke. He was one of the many speakers who informed and entertained those who attended...

Professor Michael Howard (pictured) from the University of Maine in the U.S., joined the Brisbane BIEN 2022 Congress virtually to talk about "Basic Income, Climate Change and the Future of Work". Prof Howard specialises in social and political philosophy and his message to the congress was clear - we must contain our consumption, particularly those of us from wealthy countries, while be willing to...

Iain Middleton (pictured) has long prosecuted the idea of a Universal Basic Income in New Zealand and told his country's story at the September BIEN 2022 Congress in Brisbane, which was held at the St Lucia campus of the University of Queensland . The conference was a hybrid affair with more than 100 people attending in person and hundreds more from around the world being virtual attendees. Most e...

Josh McGee (pictured) founded and continues to orchestrate the Melbourne-based Australia Basic Income group and spoke at the opening day of the Basic Income Earth Network Congress on September 26 at the St Lucia Campus of the University of Queensland . An unconditional Universal Basic Income is in many ways closely related to plotting a course the will enable humanity to navigate the quickly evolv...

Climate champion and former U.S. vice president, Al Gore, was the first of many guests at a day-long Climate Forward event organized by The New York Times . Mr Gore exuded optimism during what was described as a "fire-side chat", with a senior New York Times climate reporter, Somini Sengupta. 

Doing what you can, just one starfish at a time. Professor David Lindenmayer was the guest at a webinar organized by the Australian Conservation Foundation where he talked about " Saving our native forest in Victoria ". And a guest, just this morning (September 21) at a webinar organized by The Australia Institute was Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young. Her portfolios include Environment and Biodiv...