Climate Conversations Robert McLean

Kyla Brettle (pictured) drops the first two episodes of her new podcast: "Everything We Need";

"Lessons in Climate Storytelling";

"America’s biggest wind farm | Repowering the West";

"Chris Stark: Rishi Sunak has set us back, head of climate change watchdog says";

"What the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn't Want You To Know";

"LSU’s fossil-fuel partnerships";

"Uncharted Oceans";

"Cristina Mittermeier";

"Consumer watchdog refuses to certify green labelling scheme";

"Thoughtful Threads: Presented by Climate One and Nothin But Hits at SF Climate Week";

"A new rule aims to fortify public lands against climate change. Here’s why Utah wants to fight it.";

"Biden-Harris Administration Announces $7 Billion
Solar for All Grants to Deliver Residential Solar, Saving Low-Income Americans $350 Million Annually and Advancing Environmental Justice Across America";

"West Antarctica’s ice sheet was smaller thousands of years ago – here’s why this matters today";

"Vastly bigger than the Black Summer: 84 million hectares of northern Australia burned in 2023";

"Chinese province of Guangdong hit by historic floods";

"Cloak and desecrate: The specter of deep-sea mining";

"Stockland and Ampol rev up superfast EV charging stations";

"Rewilding ourselves: A project of hope [Midwest USA]";

"Almost half of all major Chinese cities are sinking, study warns";

"Do the people care about the climate crisis? These voters say yes - but the polls do not";

"US offshore wind needs American-made ships. The first is nearly ready";

"Tritium, major supplier of EV fast-charging equipment, is insolvent";

"Lisa Wee on how digital solutions drive the transition to net zero and help cut industrial emissions";

"Fashion and lifestyle brands unite to protect forests on Earth Day";

"Here’s the truth: energy transition is hard. Not everyone gets a pony";

"If Australia has reached ‘peak milk’, what does that mean for our food security?";

"Gone in a puff of smoke: 52,000 sq km of ‘long unburnt’ Australian habitat has vanished in 40 years";

"Guardian Essential poll: voters back Labor’s Future Made in Australia plan while overestimating cost of renewables";

"Meet four people in refugee communities who are creating a greener future";

"Jared Kushner Has Big Plans for Delta of Europe’s Last Wild River";

"In Wyoming, a Tribe and a City Pursue Clean Energy Funds Spurned by the Governor";

"Would you give up planes for these trains? Europe pushes travel that’s climate-friendly.";

"These 150-foot-high sails could help solve shipping’s climate problem";

"Nine practices from Native American culture that could help the environment";

"Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem";

"Coal trains carry health risks along with cargo";

"Climate change is creating a ‘cocktail’ of health hazards for 2.4 billion workers";

"High Levels of PFAA (Subgroup of PFAS) Found in Sea Spray";

"Seychelles Beach Cleanup Shows Potential for Citizens to Tackle Marine Trash";

"Metal Waste Could Be Used as a Catalyst for More Sustainable Hydrogen Production, Researchers Say";

"Biden’s Bureau of Land Management Will Offer Leasing of Public Lands for Conservation";

"More than coral: the unseen casualties of record-breaking heat on the Great Barrier Reef";

"Ecosystems are deeply interconnected – environmental research, policy and management should be too";

"SeaLegacy";

"The Commons Social Change Library";

"Scottish Greens to vote on power-sharing deal with SNP after carbon goal ditched";

"Tens of thousands evacuated from massive China floods";

"Pakistani province issues a flood alert and warns of a heavy loss of life from glacial melting";

"Austria likely to be largely ice-free within 45 years as glaciers recede quickly, experts say";

"Next UN climate talks are critical to plot aid for poorer nations, says incoming president";

"Powering down: end times for the UK’s final coal-fired station";

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Joining a Melbourne workshop and arriving early, as I always do, I was helping a woman adjust some blinds and upon hearing me speak she said "Are you a podcaster?"

In answering yes and adding that I host "Climate Conversations", she said she was a follower. I was thrilled!

Anne is the co-host of RadioMMT, a program that can also be found on YouTube.

"What is a passive house?";

"Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts";

"Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy";

"A third of U.S. adults are interested in cutting back on meat, report finds";

"NOAA Confirms 4th Global Coral Bleaching Event as Climate Crisis Puts Reefs ‘Under Serious Pressure’";

"Dubai floods: Chaos, queues and submerged cars after UAE hit by record rains";

"Great Barrier Reef experiencing one of its worst coral bleaching events";

"Climate change: Deadly African heatwave 'impossible' without warming";

"Global warming is coming for your shopping cart";

"How Do Neighbors of Solar Farms Really Feel? A New Survey Has Answers";

"‘We would not survive without coffee’: how rules made in Europe put Ethiopian farmers at risk";

"Death Valley is alive this year. A super bloom is the latest sign.";

"Meteorologist warns of 'weather wars' between countries after Dubai floods were blamed on 'cloud seeding' - with 'catastrophic' consequences";

"Extreme Heat Resilience: lessons from Spain for Australia";

"Battery-Electric Buses piloted in Seattle reduced maintenance costs per mile by 44.1 per cent compared to their diesel bus counterparts.";

"EPA $61 Million in Funding Will Put Clean School Buses on the Streets of New York City";

"EV school bus rollout off to slow start despite billion-dollar subsidies";

"Water is at the heart of farmers’ struggle to survive in Benin";

"‘Step on the gas,’ ‘well-oiled machine,’ and other fossil-fuel phrases that pervade our language";

"Schools in coal country are going solar";

"How much CO₂ does the world emit? Which countries emit the most?"

"A California firm may have a concrete way to help the planet with cleaner cement";

"Construction to begin on high-speed rail between Vegas and California";

"Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016";

"Climate crisis: average world incomes to diminish by nearly a fifth by 2050";

"The heat is on: what we know about why ocean temperatures keep smashing records";

"The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)";

"The economic commitment of climate change";

"For the first time, U.S. may force polluters to clean up these ‘forever chemicals’";

"Despite Their ‘Bad Rap,’ Bats Can Help Farmers";

"More Than $100 Billion in Debt-for-Nature Swaps Could Help Fight Climate Crisis, Report Says";

"Climate change played a role in killing tens of thousands of people in 2023";

"Global billionaires tax to fight climate change, hunger rises up political agenda";

"Fossil fuel debts are illegitimate and must be cancelled";

"World Bank climate funding greens African hotels while fishermen sink";

"Researchers at Michigan Tech Want to Create a High-Tech Wood Product Called Cross-Laminated Timber From the State’s Hardwood Trees";

"Fracking-Induced Earthquakes Are Menacing Argentina as Regulators Stand By";

"Ultra-fast fashion is a disturbing trend undermining efforts to make the whole industry more sustainable";

"Following a t-shirt from cotton field to landfill shows the true cost of fast fashion";

"More EV drivers embracing outback roads amid plan to expand Queensland's charger network";

"‘End crippling debt’: Calls mount for global financial reform to tackle debt and climate crisis";

"Airline Places Order for Sustainable Aviation Fuel Made From Human Waste";

"‘Climate-controlled pig’? Danish Crown admits to misleading people with greenwashing pork claims";

"Govt urged to protect seabirds on the brink of extinction";

"Global coral bleaching caused by global warming d

Executive Secretary at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Simon Steel (pictured during Q&A at London's Chatham House), has declared we have "Two years to save the world".

As a bonus, you can follow this link and go to "Outrage and Optimism" to hear an interview with Simon Steill and then listen as hosts, Tom Rivett-Carnac, Christiana Figueres and Paul Dickinson, take a deep dive into what Simon Steill said.

On climate, the world has gone from denial to procrastination.
Climate inaction is no longer defended by denying the science, but because action is claimed to be ‘too costly’
or unachievable.

Yet, the time to shape a liveable future is running out, with the decisions taken over the coming two years determining how close to limiting global warming to 1.5°C we will get by the end of the century.

With more than 60 countries going to the polls this year,
and nearly 90 per cent of the population in 125 countries want stronger climate action, every election is a climate change election. 

We must now see climate action as a tool to create better, more equitable and cleaner societies, with solid economies built around plentiful,
renewable energy.


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"Investor heavyweights failing to boot directors on climate commitments";

Samantha Helps is full of praise for Violet Coco (pictured) in her piece on Pearls and Irritations: "XR blocking arteries of capitalism labelled “catastrophic inconvenience”";

"Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action" - Dana R. Fisher;

"The EV revolution has stalled. Can these nifty bikes kick it back into gear?";

"Unprecedented spread of coral bleaching along Great Barrier Reef";

"After years of promises on climate change, oil giants are backtracking";

"Climate for Change";

"Plibersek scales back environment reforms as coral bleaching goes global";

"Fossil fuel’s war on protest";

"Jonathan Vigliotti: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America";

"Environmental impacts of underground nuclear weapons testing";

"Callaway Climate Insights founder David Callaway joins the Bulletin’s Governing Board";

"Is hydropower aging out of the clean energy race?";

"California derailed its booming rooftop solar buildout. Can it be fixed?";

"Climate Deniers in the 117th Congress";

"New House Speaker Champions Fossil Fuels and Dismisses Climate Concerns";

"Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles";

"Brown University Study Documents Links Between National & Local Offshore Wind Opponents";

"Wafer-thin, stretchy and strong as steel: could ‘miracle’ material graphene finally transform our world?";

"Russia and Kazakhstan evacuate tens of thousands amid worst floods in decades";

"Climate change driving demand for predatory loans, research shows";

"Strasbourg court’s Swiss climate ruling could have global impact, say experts";

"India Forecasts Searing Heat Ahead of World’s Biggest Election":

"UK Climate Minister Stands Down Ahead of General Election";

"Lightning and heavy rain kill dozens in Pakistan and Afghanistan in three days";

"Global heating pushes coral reefs towards worst planet-wide mass bleaching on record";

"As the Federal Government Proposes a Plan to Cull Barred Owls in the West, the Debate Around ‘Invasive’ Species Heats Up";

"Climate change is causing marine ‘coldwaves’ too, killing wildlife";

"As Climate Change Intensifies Wildfire Risk, Prescribed Burns Prove Their Worth in the Heat-Stressed Plains of the Texas Panhandle";

"A Highway in Indiana Could One Day Charge Your EV While You’re Driving It";

"Air pollution boosts Alzheimer’s disease risk";

"Air NZ calls for Govt mandates to help drive sustainable aviation fuel use";

"Corals are bleaching in every corner of the ocean, threatening its web of life";

"There’s no such thing as a benign beef farm – so beware the ‘eco-friendly’ new film straight out of a storybook";

"Sewage pollution could jeopardise Olympic swimming events in the River Seine, NGO warns";

"‘Grownup’ leaders are pushing us towards catastrophe, says former US climate chief";

"World in grip of new major coral bleaching event, reefs at risk";

"Switching to Plant-Based Diets Could Save More Than 200,000 Lives per Year, Study Finds";

"The big dry: forests and shrublands are dying in parched Western Australia";

"A Philosopher’s Guide to an Ethical Diet: A Conversation With Peter Singer";

"Africa’s Great Apes Are Already Feeling the Effects of Climate Change, First-of-Its-Kind Study Finds";

"Great Barrier Reef Suffering Record Coral Bleaching With Damage 59 Feet Below the Surface";

"Green economy summit: how can Australia get more from its relationship with Vietnam?':

"Trillions of tonnes of carbon locked in soil has been left out of environmental models – and it’s on the move";

"Greece to Invest $830 Million for Marine Conservation";

"Tonnes and tonnes of old solar panels with nowhere to go";

"Victorian households have the highest gas usage in the country — will they turn it around?";

"Faster-melting snow causes major flooding in Russia and Kazakhstan";

"BOM's first winter forecast f

Just 40 minutes, along with a fair bit of research, with Gabrielle Bond (pictured), the woman behind the Modern Money Lab at Adelaides Torrens University, changed, no, exploded my views about economic ideas, particularly those of Federal Government deficits.

Gabrielle is an enthusiast of the Modern Money Theory (MMT) and an ardent supporter of her contemporary from the university, Assistant Professor Steven Hail, who explained MMT through an article in The Conversation, entitled, "Explainer: what is modern monetary theory?".

In that article, he discussed one of MMT's pioneers, Professor Bill Mitchell, who has long explored the workings and application of the Modern Monetary Theory.

Of course, the real modern hero of MMT is U.S. economist, Stephanie Kelton, who can be seen in this TEDx talk "The big myth of government deficits" and again in this "Stony Brook University Presidential Lecture Series".

My journey to interview Gabrielle began when I listened to Professor Kelton in Melbourne, where she talked about many things, including the movie "Finding the Money".

It was in 2021 that reporter Gareth Hutchins wrote a story for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) entitled: "Modern Monetary Theory: How MMT is challenging the economic establishment".


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The Climate Council CEO, Amanda McKenzie (pictured) talks about "Seizing the Decade";

"Consumer Energy Summit";

"Verdict saying Switzerland violated rights by failing on climate action could ripple across Europe";

"Does "Every Little Thing" REALLY Stop Climate Change?";

"‘Historic’ European Court of Human Rights ruling backs Swiss women in climate change case";

"Solar canopy over Denver school parking lot will provide energy to low-income families";

"Climate complacency: study finds even the most informed people would rather take the easy option"

"Fashion's climate impact and how to reduce it";

"The Permian Basin Climate Bomb Series";

"How to prepare your finances for an extreme weather disaster";

"The Rising Tide";

"The Peoples' Blockade";

"Intensifying Cycle of Extreme Heat And Drought Grips Europe";

"Network of ‘ghost roads’ paves the way for levelling Asia-Pacific rainforests";

"How climate change could reverse progress in global inequality";

"How Nigeria is reeling from extreme heat fuelled by climate change";

"Ocean Heat Has Shattered Records for More Than a Year. What’s Happening?";

"This is an emergency - climate silence is climate denial. #EndClimateSilence now";

"The Olympics are usually a sustainability disaster. Can Paris be different?";

"Australia could reach an ‘ambitious’ emissions cut of up to 75% by 2035, advisers tell Labor";

"Australia is playing catch-up with the Future Made in Australia Act. Will it be enough?";

"Nexamp nabs $520M to build community solar across the US";

"In-depth Q&A: How does climate change drive human migration?";

"EU Policy. European Parliament approves energy market overhaul";

"‘It’s a sun trap’: climate crisis brings boomtime for British wine";

"‘A Massive Win for All Generations’: European Human Rights Court Rules Switzerland Violated Rights With Climate Inaction";

"Storm in Perth's north causes flooding, damage as BOM issues severe weather warning";

"Earth Day 2024";

"See photos, video of flooding in New Orleans metro neighborhoods during severe weather";

"Rainfall Intensity and Daily Rainfall on April 10, 2024";

"Biden-Harris Administration Finalizes Stronger Clean Air Standards for Chemical Plants, Lowering Cancer Risk and Advancing Environmental Justice";

"Flooded farms in England refused compensation as ‘too far’ from river";

"Climate target organisation faces staff revolt over carbon-offsetting plan";

"Labour may fail to grab target seats as young voters turn away over Gaza and climate";

"Carbon price should be set at $70 a tonne and rise six-fold by mid-century, says AEMC";

"New Yorkers for Clean Power";

"Rural opposition to solar farms goes beyond beliefs in climate change";

"The heat is on: what we know about why ocean temperatures keep smashing records";

"Adelaide is losing 75,000 trees a year. Tree-removal laws must be tightened if we want our cities to be liveable and green";

"How the essential, dirty steel industry is going green":

"Driven by China, Coal Plants Made a Comeback in 2023";

"What Happened When a German Car Factory Went All Electric";

"Brazil Labor Spat Thwarts Lula’s Bid to Boost Growth and Save the Amazon";

"Tanya Plibersek’s proposal to save Toondah Harbour is a win for both threatened species and people power";

"Deforestation rising in Colombia 5 years after peace deal";

"NGO links H&M and Zara cotton to deforestation in Brazil's Cerrado";

"How to prepare your finances for an extreme weather disaster";

"Earth sees hottest-ever March, the 10th record-breaking month in a row";

"Here’s how EVs could get 200 miles per gallon";

"Spies Like Us: why the Government is still backing Woodside over Timor-Leste";

"Power to the people? Bolivia’s hunt for gas targets national parks – and divides communities";

"Feeling depleted? So is the planet. Here’s how to move from exhaustion to empowerment";

"Incarcerated People Subjected To Worst Of Climate Change";

"Embodied C