Climate Conversations

Stanley Johnson (pictured), the father of British PM, Boris, visits Australia heaping climate praise on Australia's wonderfully progressive LNP Government and was interviewed on ABC's RN Breakfast by Patricia Karvelas - "Stanley Johnson on climate, Brexit and Russia". Other Quick Climate Links today are: "Biolinks Alliance"; "Bendigo Sustainability Festival"; "Feds to pledge $1 billion for faster...

Climate Conversations was just one of the many exhibitors at the Sunday, March 26, Bendigo Sustainability Festival organized by the Bendigo Sustainability Group. The festival was held at the city's Gardens for the Future, which is a part of the Bendigo Botanic Gardens. Eight people volunteered to be interviewed for this episode, including one of those who operate "Sweenies Creek Farm". President o...

Elyse Cunningham was scheduled to be my guest on Climate Conversations to talk about "Sweltering Cities", but I messed up the arrangements and so was forced to resort to creating something based on what I found on the group's website. The group has a meeting tomorrow at 2:00 pm in Wyndham Park, Werribee, to talk about heat island developments in the west of Melbourne. Also, tomorrow, March 27, Cli...

The Durgas (pictured is the group's latest album) gives us the tools to endure the quickly unfolding climate crisis. Also helping humanity survive and thrive are the World Citizen Artists, who are raising global awareness through creativity. Other Quick Climate Links for today are: "This urban farm is creating jobs for young Australians and refugees"; "Activists slam new anti-protest laws as ‘knee...

This picture of Dr James Goldie has him with multi-coloured hair, but it always seems to be changing and I even saw one picture of him with green hair. Dr Goldie is from Monash University's Climate Change Communication Research Hub. The Australia Institute has many fascinating webinars and an equal number of fascinating guests and the latest, from Wednesday, March 23, was Chris Barrie: "A Climate...

Jamie Gilbert is the key player behind the Seymour Alternative Farming Expo but immediately points out that he is just one of a committed and enthusiastic small team that makes the annual event a reality. But it is more than Jamie and his small team, as working equally diligently to ensure the success of the expo are more than 30 community organizations from in and around Seymour. Seymour's Kings...

UN Secretary-General, Antonio Gutteres (pictured) has been described by Australia's Communications  Minister, Paul Fletcher, as being of the "chattering classes" and you can read about that in The Guardian story: "‘Chattering classes’: Australian government dismisses UN secretary general’s climate criticism". And the World Wildlife Fund wants us all to become a part of its "Earth Hour". Other Quic...

George Marshall is one of the world's clearest thinkers in the climate change conversation and just yesterday (Tuesday, March 23) he was the special guest on a webinar organized by the Melbourne-based "Psychology for a Safe Climate". George is the founding director of Britain's "Climate Outreach" and is presently in Australia adding to research for a new book with the working title of "What happen...

Yale Climate Connections has recognised the fact that children are, in a sense, excluded from the climate conversation and so have recommended a book - "New children’s book explains systemic nature of climate change". Quick Climate Links is not about pedagogy, rather it's about helping you better understand the climate crisis and subsequently be in a stronger position to make your own choices and...

Georgia Steele (pictured) is unhappy about the 'climate vandals' running Australia and so has decided to contest the Seat of Hughes as an independent in the forthcoming Federal Election. Australia's Great Barrier Reef is about to have its health assessed by a delegation from the United Nations and you can hear an advisor to the Australian Marine Conservation Society, Imogen Zethoven, talking about...

The small town of Tatura, just 18 kilometres west of Shepparton, got together today to "Re-boot your Mojo". The event was led by the town's Comunity House and saw involvement from a host of local organizations, among them Zero Cabon Tatura; Tatura Transition Towns; the local; the town's "Irrigation and War Museum"; "GV Health": the Tatura station of Ambulance Victoria; Climate Conversations went a...

Professor Kirsten Zickfeld (pictured) takes us through and explains what net-zero really means, making the complexities and simplicities of this aspect of climate science understandable, even for the layperson. Professor Zickfeld, who is from Simon Fraser University was speaking at the latest webinar in a series organised by the University of Toronto. Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". Support the...

Barnaby Joyce (pictured) has no grasp whatsoever of climate change and what it means for Australians and other people around the world. Today (March 17) Cloe Read reported about an appearance by Australia's Deputy Prime Minister at the Rural Press Club in the story: "‘Those carrying coffins in Ukraine are not focused on climate change’". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World" Support the show: https://...

Finland's PM Marin Sanna (pictured) wants to see her country rid itself of Russian fossil fuels "just as soon as possible". The Ford Motor Company is one of the world's largest car manufacturers and until now had controlled a large share of the market with its fossil fuel-powered internal combustion engines, but now has shifted its gaze and intent to consider electric cars. In what is a major chan...

Jane Caro (pictured), a Walkley winning Australian columnist, author, broadcaster, documentary maker, feminist and social commentator, is representing the Reason Party as she seeks to win a Senate seat in the forthcoming Federal Election. And just this week she held a second webinar with her Senate running partner, Hannah Maher, for which the special guest was Australian Climate Council member and...

Anjali Sharma (pictured) was among a group of young people who had felt success, but then have it turn to tragedy when a court case considered their future safety from climate change fell from being in their favour to be reversed, allowing Australia's Environment Minister, Sussan Ley, to again progress fossil fuel projects without consideration of Australia's young people. An outraged, and obvious...

The COVID-19 pandemic has swept around the world and although it has brought with it many punishments, it has also illustrated, quiet clearly, that a change in our lifestyles represents a solution to the quickly unfolding climate crisis - there is, to quote an adage, a silver lining in every cloud.