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Funnel web spider sightings on the rise in NSW homes amid wet weather
Rodents, cockroaches and insects take refuge in people’s homes while mozzies ‘breed like crazy’, pest experts warn
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In the 30 years Tommy Horozakis has owned his pest control business, he struggles to recall another time like now.
“I’ve been inundated by calls about rodents, spiders, cockroaches, mozzies. It’s crazy,” said Horozakis, who runs Sydney’s The Pest Control Company. “Everything is looking for shelter from the wet weather, and unfortunately our homes couldn’t be better.”
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Continue reading...The Driven Podcast: Malcolm Turnbull on EVs, Morrison lies, and end of fossil fuels
Malcolm Turnbull on his family's shift to electric, Morrison's lies on EVs, and the pressing need to stop burning fossil fuels.
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“Dangerous radicals:” UN takes aim at Australia over fossil fuels and climate lies
IPCC says Australia victim of one of the most successful fossil fuel lobbying efforts, as UN chief slams leaders for lying about climate action.
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Dolphins, turtles and birds don’t have to die in fishing gear – skilled fishers can avoid it
Gas-led recovery is a “dog”, world must stop burning fossil fuels, Turnbull says
Malcolm Turnbull says the Coalition's gas led recovery is a "dog", and says the world must stop burning fossil fuels and put gas "out of business."
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New data shows big jump in toxic coal plant pollution, even as output falls
Analysis shows big increase in amount of toxic air pollutants emitted by Australia’s ageing fleet of coal-fired power plants, even while generation output of some has decreased.
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Yellowstone national park offers an annual pass – that won’t work until 2172
A $1,500 donation will buy an Inheritance Pass, valid for entry in 2172, part of a fundraising effort to celebrate the park’s 150th year
Yellowstone national park is offering an annual pass valid for entry in 2172 in exchange for a $1,500 donation, part of a fundraising efforts in honor of the park’s 150th birthday.
The park hopes that the tickets, dubbed “The Inheritance Passes”, will be used by the donor’s descendants. Yellowstone Forever, the park’s fundraising arm, will use the money to support park projects such as trail improvements, education, native fish conservation and scientific studies.
Continue reading...Pennsylvania RGGI regulation set for publication after Senate veto override fails
Simulating Earth's changing climate: why some models exaggerate future warming
EU member states two-thirds of the way through 2022 EUA allocations -data
It’s astounding Australia has no policy framework to drive urgent clean energy transition
It is astounding that there is no nationally agreed policy-making framework to guide Australia through a once in a century technological transition.
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Pennsylvania firm seeks ETF linked to global carbon markets index
MEPs expected to approve extension of strengthened MSR, EU nations trail
IPCC’s outlines solutions needed as 1.5C warming goal almost out of reach
Bird populations in Panama rainforest in severe decline, study finds
Of 57 species sampled, 35 decreased in number by 50% over four decades, with climate crisis likely factor
Bird populations in a Central American tropical rainforest are suffering severe declines, with likely factors including climate breakdown and habitat loss.
Scientists from the University of Illinois tracked species of birds in a protected forest reserve in central Panama to determine if and how populations had changed from 1977 to 2020.
Continue reading...World on 'fast track to climate disaster', says UN secretary general – video
António Guterres says the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reveals 'a litany of broken climate promises' by governments and businesses, and accuses some of them of lying in claiming to be on track to limiting future heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. In a strongly worded rebuke, he says: 'It is a file of shame, cataloguing the empty pledges that put us firmly on track towards an unliveable world'
The Guardian view on the latest IPCC report: a fast track to climate disaster | Editorial
Governments have hitherto been far too hesitant to take on vested interests and are all too ready to protect historic investments in fossil fuels
The continued heating of the planet means that this year will probably be one of this century’s coolest. As the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) makes clear, current climate pledges by governments would not keep global heating to 1.5C above preindustrial levels – the target promised in the 2015 Paris agreement. Instead greenhouse gas emissions are rising. During the past decade, on average annually they were at their highest levels in human history.
The world is on a pathway to temperature increases of more than 3C in the coming decades. This would make large parts of the world too hot to work in. Severe harvest failures will become common. Disappearing ice caps would submerge major cities. Governments have hitherto been far too hesitant to take on vested interests and are all too ready to protect historic investments in fossil fuels.
Continue reading...‘We can’t afford to get this wrong’: relocating Leadbeater’s possums is risky – but it’s their only chance
Exclusive: With only 33 of Victoria’s lowland population left, the team charged with their recovery says ‘we need to be proactive’
As dusk has fallen each night for the last seven days, Dan Harley and Arabella Eyre have turned to each other and said: “They’ll be coming out about now.”
A week ago, the pair executed a risky plan to relocate five tiny Leadbeater’s possums – each about as heavy as an apple and the size of a fist – from their last remaining bolthole in Victoria to a new home in a forest swamp, three hours’ drive away.
Continue reading...We urgently need to cut emissions – the good news is we can do it quickly and relatively cheaply
The IPCC finds that emissions could be halved globally by 2030 at affordable costs if action is taken right across the board
Enormous opportunities to cut emissions deeply are there, the time to act is now, and it can be done at affordable cost.
That would be the shortest possible summary of the thousands of pages of careful assessment in the world’s definitive stocktake of how to limit future climate change.
Frank Jotzo is a professor at the Australian National University. He is a lead author of the sixth assessment report of Working Group III of the IPCC, and co-author of its summary for policymakers.
Continue reading...Final warning: what does the IPCC’s third report instalment say?
Explainer: Key points from the final section of the IPCC’s latest review of climate science
- IPCC report: ‘now or never’ if world is to stave off climate disaster
- Analysis: IPCC spells out what the world needs to do
The world has only a narrow chance of limiting global heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, and is falling far behind on making the changes needed to transform the global economy to a low-carbon footing.
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