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From floods to fire? A climate scientist on the chances El Niño will hit Australia this year

After three soggy years of La Niña in a row, Australia has endured record-breaking floods, the latest of which has inundated the Kimberley in Western Australia and across north and central Queensland.

The Conversation

The past 3 weeks were the wettest in 161 years in the Bay Area

SAN JOSE, Calif. — How wet has it been recently in Northern California?

Tribune News Service

Climate change plan leads to chaos at City of Onkaparinga council meeting, police called

Police were called to the City of Onkaparinga meeting in Adelaide's south, where a proposed declaration of a climate emergency was to be discussed, with councillors and staff moved to another area for safety.

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ComEd seeks four-year, $1.47 billion rate increase to bolster the grid for EVs, electrification and climate change

ComEd filed for a four-year, $1.47 billion rate increase Tuesday with the Illinois Commerce Commission to bolster its grid for the demands of EVs, electrification and climate change.

Chicago Tribune

Big Oil's weapon to stop climate laws

Investor-state dispute settlements allow oil and gas investors to sue countries over their climate policies

Salon

ComEd seeks record-high $1.5 billion rate hike over next four years

ComEd says that’s the cost of bolstering the region’s electric grid in a statewide effort to phase out carbon emissions and of protecting the system from severe weather damage as it becomes more common due to climate change.

Chicago Sun-Times

Pacific group urges NZ to support stricter shipping decarbonisation plans

A pledge that developing countries won’t wear the costs of ships going green will this year go before the International Maritime Organization.

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Davos 2023: Brazil lacking world aid to fight climate change-Silva

Brazil's Environment Minister, Marina Silva, said on Tuesday that international investments have not materialized as contributions to help her country reduce deforestation in the Amazon and contribute to fighting global climate change.

Reuters

Angola’s peatlands trap carbon and clean the region’s water – how we mapped this newly found landscape

Ask most people what they picture when thinking about natural “carbon sinks” – ecosystems that absorb and store greenhouse gases – and they’ll probably describe a forest. Reforestation is a common feature of climate change plans.

The Conversation

UAE Looking Forward to Effective Partnership on Climate Issues at COP28

The United Arab Emirates underscored its efforts for the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) to serve as an opportunity to forge effective partnerships, in order to achieve tangible and real progress on climate issues. The UAE is holding the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW), bringing together heads of…

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George Skelton: California has lots of catching up to do on flood management — with or without climate change

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When Leland Stanford became California's governor in 1862, he needed a rowboat to carry him to the Capitol to be sworn in.

Los Angeles Times

Castle-Douglas based forestry consultant backs report claiming mature woodlands are vital to climate change fight

Keith Muir, head of forestry for Davidson and Robertson, says the report is helps "burst the myth" that some woodlands have less value

Daily Record

As heatwaves and floods hit cities worldwide, these places are pioneering solutions

Climate change is going just as badly for cities as we have been warned it would. Extreme weather is increasingly common and severe globally. Australian cities have endured a number of recent disastrous events.

The Conversation

Taoiseach committed to tackling climate as environmental issues dominate list of threats to humanity

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says he “is planning to engage on these issues” and “other pressing challenges including the war in Ukraine

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Davos 2023: Climate change leads to more malaria, tuberculosis up in a recession

Climate change is increasing malaria infections, the executive director of the world's biggest health fund said in Davos on Monday.

The Conversation

At Fitzroy Crossing and around Australia, community radio empowers local responses to climate impacts

As rain poured down and rivers rose, the radio buzzed with static where you’d usually find Fitzroy Crossing’s community radio station, Wangki Yupurnanupurru Radio. The station was off air, but not offline. When they couldn’t broadcast, the Wangki team turned to Facebook to share emergency information.

The Conversation

Where does Australia's relationship with PNG go next? Less talk about China, more about our neighbour's own merits

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s visit to Papua New Guinea last week put the media spotlight on one of Australia’s most important international relationships.

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe: There’s a quantifiable cost to George Pell’s style of climate denial

There are no Pellsian climate deniers in the insurance industry, haven’t been for many years as the dollar cost of climate change is counted.

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Big Money, New Laws, Old Divisions

New Mexico’s legislative session, funded by oil and gas, promises fireworks.

The Independent UK

Economic woes, war, climate change on tap for Davos meeting

The World Economic Forum is back with its first winter meetup since 2020 in the Swiss Alpine town of Davos

Wales Online

Council remains confident Cardiff can reach net zero target by 2030

Cardiff Council's cabinet member for climate change, Cllr Caro Wild, said a "huge" piece of work is needed to get more residents on board with the mission to net zero

Fortune

A survey of 32,000 people found that business is more trusted than NGOs, government, and the media

'Business is the sole institution seen as competent and ethical.'

Reuters

New Zealand's southern waters experiencing marine heatwave

Waters around New Zealand’s South Island are as much as 6 degrees Celsius (42.8 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than normal due to climate change, the weather phenomenon La Nina and a series of high pressure systems, according to scientists.

The Conversation

Disastrous floods in WA – why were we not prepared?

The devastating floods sweeping through the Kimberley region of Western Australia have caused unimaginable destruction, leaving remote Indigenous communities stranded in its aftermath.

ABC News

Warming ocean waters in Western Australia are a 'sentinel of climate change', UWA researchers say

Researchers say, as an ocean warming hotspot, WA provides a very clear and present warning about the dangers of long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.

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