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Cold snap, low on gas: the possible gas shortage in Victoria is a warning

The Conversation - Mon, 2024-06-24 15:23
Last week, Victoria’s main gas storage facility was worryingly low. It’s another sign of the flaws associated with leaving gas supply to the market Samantha Hepburn, Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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UK’s drive to install heat pumps stymied by ‘lack of demand and skill shortage’

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-06-24 15:00

Almost a third of installers surveyed say finding skilled fitters is a barrier for customers, while 40% note lack of interest

The UK’s drive to replace gas boilers with heat pumps is being stymied by a lack of consumer demand and a shortage of skilled installers to fit heat pumps where they are wanted, according to an industry survey.

The most comprehensive poll of heat pump installers to date found that the biggest barrier was the low number of households choosing to get one fitted.

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How Hollywood star Sheen helped uncover a dark secret

BBC - Mon, 2024-06-24 15:00
A chance scroll on the internet led the actor Michael Sheen on a journey to uncover a dark secret.
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How Hollywood star Sheen helped uncover a dark secret

BBC - Mon, 2024-06-24 15:00
A chance scroll on the internet led the actor Michael Sheen on a journey to uncover a dark secret.
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Wildcat kittens born outside captivity in Cairngorms a ‘major milestone’

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-06-24 14:00

Adult cats were released into national park last year after British population had come close to extinction

The birth of wildcat kittens in the Cairngorms national park has been hailed as a “major milestone” in efforts to rescue the secretive mammals from extinction in the UK.

In footage exclusively shared with the Guardian by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS), two of the kittens can be seen playing in grassland with their mother and leaping on to a fallen tree branch.

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Who is Matt Kean and what is the Climate Change Authority?

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-06-24 13:43

Former NSW Liberal MP spoke out against the lack of climate action by the Morrison government during the 2019-20 black summer bushfires

The federal Labor government has appointed prominent New South Wales Liberal Matt Kean as the new chair of the Climate Change Authority.

Here’s a short explainer on Kean and the agency he will chair.

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Australia Market Round: Former NSW energy minister to chair Climate Change Authority, regulator issues 1.3 mln ACCUs,

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-06-24 11:53
The federal Labor government has appointed the former New South Wales Liberal Energy and Environment Minister and Treasurer Matt Kean to chair the Climate Change Authority (CCA), following the resignation of Grant King.
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New climate models sharpen future warming predictions, says researcher

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-06-24 10:31
The uncertainties surrounding forecasting global warming have narrowed considerably in the past 10 years, offering a clearer window for planning and budgeting by companies and governments, according to a researcher with the Canadian government. 
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New study cites MRV challenges as hindering large-scale carbon removals via enhanced weathering

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-06-24 10:12
A number of challenges are hindering the deployment of enhanced weathering (EW) at scale, including implementing accurate MRV approaches, a new study has warned.
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Climate and energy have emerged as a federal election flashpoint. But unless the economy improves, will voters be listening?

The Conversation - Mon, 2024-06-24 06:05
A campaign fought on climate and energy might benefit the Greens and the Teal independents – but the prevailing state of the economy will determine their ability to capitalise. Mark Kenny, Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Most plastics are made from fossil fuels and end up in the ocean, but marine microbes can’t degrade them – new research

The Conversation - Mon, 2024-06-24 06:02
We know some marine microbes produce enzymes that can break down certain types of plastics. But new research found areas of high plastic pollution don’t show high concentrations of these enzymes. Victor Gambarini, PhD Student in Marine Science, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Only 60% of Australians accept ‘climate disruption’ is human-caused, global poll finds

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-06-24 01:00

Exclusive: French survey of 26 countries finds fewer Australians than global average agree that climate change is the greatest health threat facing humanity

Australians are among the most sceptical around the world that “climate disruption” is being caused by humans and that the costs of tackling it will be less than that of its impacts, according to polling across 26 countries.

Just 60% of Australians accept that “climate disruption” is human-caused, a fall of six percentage points from the previous poll 18 months earlier and well behind the global average of 73%, according to the results from French polling company Elabe.

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Take an area of outstanding beauty, cover it in pylons and concrete: how can we allow that? | Fiona Gilmore

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-06-24 00:00

National Grid’s plan for the Suffolk coast is mirrored across the UK. We need an energy policy that protects our heritage

Energy, and its future costs and security, is one of the main issues facing this country, yet it has drawn little attention or interrogation in the general election debate.

Our local community faces devastation on a criminal scale, and that is sadly representative of similar cases across the UK. National Grid wishes to build across a vast area of peaceful countryside less than three miles from coastal Aldeburgh and Thorpeness, a thriving tourism destination for ramblers, ornithologists and nature lovers – and to make this a “concrete coast”.

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