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Rescuers race to save stranded pilot whales in Australia after mass beaching — video
Officials are baffled by the remarkable behaviour of a large pod of pilot whales that grouped together in a heart shape before stranding themselves on a remote Western Australian beach on Tuesday evening.
By Wednesday morning, more than 50 whales lay dead on the shore, with volunteers, government workers and scientists fighting to save 46 more
‘We have never seen this’: scientists baffled by behaviour of pilot whales before WA mass stranding
‘What is the sea telling us?’: Māori tribes fearful over whale strandings
Jim Skea to take helm at IPCC as world enters crucial climate decade
British professor elected chair of UN’s expert panel, which warned in March that 1.5C threshold could be hit in 10 years
The British professor Jim Skea has been elected to head the UN’s climate expert panel, taking the helm of the organisation charged with distilling the best science to guide global policy in a crucial decade in human history.
Skea, who is a professor of sustainable energy at Imperial College London and who co-chaired the report on solutions in the panel’s latest round of publications, said in a statement he was “humbled” to have been elected chair at a meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Nairobi, Kenya.
Continue reading...EU steel association revises down 2023 outlook on sluggish demand
‘You’re seeing the pain’: extreme explorer Geoff Wilson’s epic journey for the planet
The Australian’s latest adventure – two years traversing oceans and ice caps – aims to promote ‘carbon neutral exploring’
Geoff Wilson has spent much of his adult life exploring the planet. He has completed the only wind-assisted crossing of the Sahara and the fastest unsupported crossing of Greenland, south to north. He has stood atop Tanzania’s Mt Kilimanjaro with his father and spent a year sailing the world with his wife and three children. He holds the record for the longest solo unsupported polar journey in human history.
Wilson is the definition of a modern-day adventurer – a recipient of the Australian Geographic Society’s highest honour, the “lifetime of adventure” award. Having devoted decades to redefining what human beings are capable of, he is next seeking to prove that adventure doesn’t have to come at the expense of the planet.
Continue reading...Will the Gulf Stream really collapse by 2025?
Another 4GW of wind and solar sought grid connections in last quarter
Applications for new connection agreements continue to jump sharply, but registrations and commissioning continues to drag.
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Rooftop solar takes biggest bite yet out of fossil fuel industry’s energy lunch
The growing uptake of rooftop solar PV – driven in part by the huge jump in wholesale electricity prices and retail bills in the past year – has taken the biggest bite yet out of the fossil fuel industry’s energy lunch. In an ironic twist to the cartel-like behaviour of the fossil fuel industry in […]
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ANALYSIS: Hungary could raise over €300 mln with new carbon levies, other member states unlikely to follow suit
Euro Markets: Midday Update
South Korea activates ETS price floor to stabilise carbon market as prices hit a new low
Drone footage shows mountains in Algeria scorched by wildfires – video
Drone footage showed the scale of devastation in Algeria's northern Bouria region after deadly wildfires spread through mountain ranges on Tuesday, killing at least 34 people. About 8,000 firefighters battled blazes in 15 provinces, leading to the evacuation of more than 1,500 people. The Algerian online news site TSA quoted the National Meteorological Office as saying that temperatures had soared to about 50C (122F) in some areas
Continue reading...We can’t afford to be climate doomers | Rebecca Solnit
It often seems that people are searching harder for evidence we’re defeated than that we can win
Stanford engineering professor and renewable energy expert Mark Z Jacobson tweeted the other day, “Given that scientists who study 100% renewable energy systems are unanimous that it can be done why do we hear daily on twitter and everywhere else by those who don’t study such systems that it can’t be done?” A significant percentage of the general public speaks of climate change with a strange combination of confidence and defeatism: confidence in positions often based on inaccurate or outdated or maybe no information; defeatism about what we can do to make a livable future. Maybe they just get their facts from other doom evangelists, who flourish on the internet, no matter how much reputable scientists demonstrate their errors.
They’re surrendering in advance and inspiring others to do the same. If you announce that the outcome has already been decided and we’ve already lost, you strip away the motivation to participate – and of course if we do nothing we settle for the worst outcome. It often seems that people are searching harder for evidence we’re defeated than that we can win. Warnings are a valuable thing, given with the sense that there’s something we can do to prevent the anticipated outcome; prophesies assume the future is settled and there’s nothing we can do. But the defeatists often describe a present they assert are locking in the worst outcomes.
Rebecca Solnit’s most recent books are Orwell’s Roses and the climate anthology Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility, co-edited with Thelma Young Lutunatabua
Continue reading...Think-tank releases catalogue of natural capital metrics, methods
Japanese startup launches new carbon exchange, keen on credit creation business
International regulations miss 40% of species threatened by trade
Australia lacks the seed supplies, knowledge for nature repair market, experts say
‘We have never seen this’: scientists baffled by behaviour of pilot whales before WA mass stranding
Environment minister says way pod crowded tightly together 150 metres offshore before becoming beached is ‘unique and pretty incredible’
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Officials are baffled by the remarkable behaviour of a large pod of pilot whales that grouped together in a heart shape before stranding themselves on a remote Western Australian beach.
Drone footage captured the moment a pod of almost 100 long-finned pilot whales moved tightly together before stranding themselves at Cheynes beach about 60km east of Albany on Tuesday evening.
Continue reading...Australia must confront four megatrends that are causing rapid global disruption | Julie Bishop
Our world is grappling with technological advances, shifts in geopolitical and economic power, globalisation backlash and climate change
Today we face four megatrends that are driving rapid and disruptive changes, and which will greatly affect our nation, the region and the world.
These pre-date Covid and are likely to continue well after the pandemic. They are technological advances, shifts in geopolitical and economic power, backlash against globalisation and climate change.
The first, the technology revolution – or what is also called the fourth Industrial Revolution – has already had a profound effect on our lives, our work, and how we connect with each other.
Yet experts predict the most disruptive technologies are yet to come, including quantum computing, genetic engineering and more.
To determine just how much this is driving the next wave of change, I went directly to the source and asked Chat GPT about the implications of AI.
Continue reading...SwitchedOn Australia Podcast: Difficult, confusing, annoying, expensive
Jon Jutsen on the challenges facing householders going all-electric, and what's needed to scale up.
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