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Woodside boss says young people ‘ideological’ on fossil fuels while ‘happily ordering from Temu’
Meg O’Neill tells energy industry conference that individual consumers’ role in driving emissions is ‘missing’ in conversations about fossil fuels
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The boss of Australian gas giant Woodside, Meg O’Neill, has attacked young people who take an ideological stand against fossil fuels, suggesting they are hypocrites for ordering cheap online consumer goods “without any sort of recognition of the energy and carbon impact of their actions”.
O’Neill was speaking during the gas industry’s annual conference in Brisbane, where the resources minister, Madeleine King, said the government was working to enhance exploration for gas while improving the approvals process for companies.
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Environment minister Murray Watt is due to make a decision on whether to extend the controversial North West Shelf development in coming days
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Reliable energy or ‘carbon bomb’? What’s at stake in the battle over Australia’s North West Shelf
Unless something remarkable – the federal court, perhaps – intervenes, the Albanese government will this week make a decision that could have ramifications for greenhouse gas emissions and Indigenous heritage that last for decades – or longer. It relates to the future of the North West Shelf, one of the world’s largest liquified natural gas (LNG) projects.
Most discussion about it assumes that it is a done deal – that the environment minister, Murray Watt, will give the green light to an application by Woodside Energy to extend the life of the gas export processing facility on the Burrup peninsula in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.
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Continue reading...Veteran-led disaster recovery group calls on Albanese for help to build army of 10,000 volunteers
Exclusive: Disaster Relief Australia pushes for funding deal as it positions itself as alternative to ADF in aftermath of floods, fires and cyclones
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The veteran-led organisation on the frontline of disaster recovery wants federal government support to help establish a 10,000-strong volunteer army.
Disaster Relief Australia (DRA) is pushing for a new funding deal to secure its future and grow its force, as it positions itself as an alternative to the Australian defence force in the aftermath of major floods, fires and cyclones.
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Continue reading...‘The seabed is full of them’: English fishers enjoy surprise octopus boom
Warmer waters near Devon and Cornwall are creating a cephalopod-based ‘financial bonus’ for the fishing industry
Octopuses have long captivated humans with their alien-like appearance and bizarre anatomy.
This spring, the cephalopods have been baffling, delighting and enraging fishers in English waters as an unprecedented marine heatwave has led to a surge in their numbers.
Continue reading...US faces another summer of extreme heat as fears rise over Trump cuts
Brutal heat and drought expected to blanket country from Nevada to Florida as experts worry climate cuts will burn
This year’s summer months promise to be among the hottest on record across the United States, continuing a worsening trend of extreme weather, and amid concern over the impacts of Trump administration cuts to key agencies.
The extreme heat could be widespread and unrelenting: only far northern Alaska may escape unusually warm temperatures from June through August, according to the latest seasonal forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa).
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David Littleproud says Nationals will review net zero policy, contradicting deputy
Monday comments to Sky News raise doubts about looming cooperation agreement with the Liberals
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The Nationals leader, David Littleproud, says his party’s support for a policy of net zero emissions by 2050 is up for review, contradicting his deputy and raising doubts about the looming cooperation agreement with the Liberals.
After days of turmoil within the Coalition, Littleproud told Sky News he was relaxed about speculation his leadership could come under challenge from former leader Michael McCormack, denying there was division within the Nationals.
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Stark warnings about threatened coastal areas should prompt fresh efforts to protect those most at risk
In his classic study of the 17th-century Dutch golden age, The Embarrassment of Riches, the art historian Simon Schama showed how the biblical story of Noah’s ark resonated in a culture where catastrophic floods were an ever-present threat. The history of the Netherlands includes multiple instances of storms breaching dikes, leading to disastrous losses of life and land. These traumatic episodes were reflected in the country’s art and literature, as well as its engineering.
In countries where floods are less of a danger, memories tend to be more localised: a mark on a wall showing how high waters rose when a town’s river flooded; a seaside garden such as the one in Felixstowe, Suffolk, to commemorate the night in 1953 when 41 people lost their lives there.
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It is undoubtedly clear that continuing to burn or export fossil fuels will increase climate change and the risk of extreme weather
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As New South Wales once again faces heavy rainfall and flooding, the Victorian towns of Euroa and Violet Town will enter stage 2 water restrictions next Wednesday. How is the climate crisis affecting these contrasting extremes?
The weather pattern bringing heavy rainfall to NSW is a common wet-weather scenario for the coast. A high-pressure system in the Tasman Sea has stalled, and the anticlockwise air flow around the high is pushing moist air from the ocean over land. At the same time, about three kilometres above the surface, a low-pressure system is lifting the moist ocean air up. As moist air rises, it forms clouds, storms, and finally rain.
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Continue reading...Challenge use of ‘nefarious’ news sources, says environmentalist
Mike Berners-Lee tells Hay festival audience to make spread of political deceit more socially embarrassing
People should confront their family members who read news from “nefarious” sources, suggests the environmentalist Mike Berners-Lee.
“Challenge your friends and family and colleagues who are getting their information from sources that have got nefarious roots or a track record of being careless – or worse – with the truth, because we need to make this sort of thing socially embarrassing to be involved in,” said Berners-Lee, the brother of the World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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Bin chickens galore! Why are there so many ibis in Sydney?
Rainy weather emboldens the scavenging species – climate refugees driven from their wetland homes
Rain slicks the pavement at Sydney’s Prince Alfred Park. Commuters hurry under umbrellas, takeaway bags clutched tight.
But one group remains unbothered – heads tilted, shoulders hunched, beaks long. It’s lunchtime, and the ibis are here to eat.
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Climate change could bring insect-borne tropical diseases to UK, scientists warn
Mosquito experts say cuts in aid will lead to collapse of crucial surveillance and control in endemic countries
Climate change could make the UK vulnerable to insect-transmitted tropical diseases that were previously only found in hot countries, scientists have warned, urging ministers to redouble efforts to contain their spread abroad.
Leading mosquito experts said the government’s cuts to international aid would lead to a collapse in crucial surveillance, control and treatment programmes in endemic countries, leading to more deaths.
Continue reading...‘Global red alert’: forest loss hits record high – and Latin America is the heart of the inferno
With little state support, villagers are left to battle wildfires armed with little more than shovels and bottles of water
• Fires drove record loss of world’s forests last year
Wildfires engulfed vast swathes of South America last year, devastating ecosystems, closing schools and grounding flights. With its worst fire season on record, Bolivia was especially hard hit. “We felt powerless and angry to be unable to protect what is ours,” says Isabel Surubí Pesoa.
Surubí Pesoa was forced to migrate to the nearest town after the spring that fed her village in Bolivia’s eastern lowlands dried up after the fires and the drought that preceded it. “It’s very painful,” she says.
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Weatherwatch: The Met Office fights back against climate misinformation
The most impressive part of the Office’s misinformation ‘toolkit’ is its set of answers to climate deniers’ questions
The UK Met Office is quite polite about it. Deliberate lies and denial about climate breakdown are labelled “misinformation” – on the assumption that the person passing the “facts” on has themselves been misled. If you can prove the perpetrator is involved in the deliberate sharing or creation of incorrect scenarios, this is called “disinformation”, while someone who deliberately misleads by twisting the meaning of truthful information is spreading “malinformation”.
Whether you agree with these definitions or not, it is refreshing to see one of our world-class scientific institutions fighting back against the deluge of propaganda from the fossil fuel industry and their paid lobbyists, as well as the politicians who deny science. For far too long, scientists have remained silent in between producing erudite reports on the worsening climate and only when prodded after weather-related disasters do they venture the opinion that: “This is climate change in action.”
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