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Climate Conversations

Robert McLean

A continuous conversation about climate change - news, views and interviews.

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00:24:19

Climate News: Budgetry climate advice falls on deaf...

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2025/03/06

Tropical Cyclone Alfred troubles coastal northern New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland, triggering memories of flooding in Lismore in NSW."‘Stripped to our bare bones’: three years on from the floods, Lismore’s housing crisis is worse than ever";"Queensland evacuations begin as Cyclone Alfred storm path tracks towards Brisbane";"How to prepare for Cyclone Alfred and what to do if it’s too late to leave";"Clive bought his house because of the view. Now he

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00:48:11

Climate News: Tropical Cyclone Alfred, the first in...

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2025/03/04

Tropical Cyclone Alfred is roaming about near the coast of Australia's south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales: "Northern NSW residents urged to prepare for first tropical cyclone since 1990";"The coastal Victorian city with ambitious plans but a big sea-rise problem";"Trump fired hundreds at NOAA, Weather Service. Here’s what that means for forecasts.";"Amazon loses fight to exempt data center from energy regulation";"More Growth, More

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00:36:43

Climate Cafe: Anthony Stott wants us all to think...

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2025/03/02

Anthony Stott (pictured) was the guest speaker at the Geelong Climate Cafe on Friday, February 28.He has worked in several fields such as teaching, youth work, and training unemployed people. He was a Lifeline counsellor for 5 years and has been in private practice since 2008.With a gentle smile, Anthony took those at the Climate Cafe on a metaphorical journey from humanity's beginnings to where we are now - a planet in crisis.Coping with climate distress has been a passion of Anthony for many

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01:02:48

Event: After hearing 'The PM’s Climate Speech we’ve...

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2025/02/27

Violet Coco is an active activist, she is bold and courageous in alerting others to the dilemmas of climate change.Violet shared the stage with the research director from The National Centre for Climate Restoration (Breakthrough), David Spratt at an event associated with the Melbourne-based National Sustainability Festival, “The PM’s Climate Speech we’ve been waiting for”David mentioned the book, "⁠The Deluge⁠" by Stephen Markley, which he praised.He also discussed the website

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00:43:56

Climate News: A sense of civility and decency we...

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2025/02/25

How close-knit community is better than rugged individualism - "Surviving the Climate Apocalypse (With a Little Help From My Friends)";"America Loses Its Soul When It Rejects People Fleeing Danger";"Climate change is coming for coastlines, from ancient cities to modern California: Study";"Why the U.S. has been home to Earth’s most unusually cold air this year";"How heatwaves can wreak havoc on your mental health";"Farmers, investors, miners and

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00:32:40

Climate News: ‘Nuclear carbon emission bomb’: 2b...

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2025/02/24

The Liberal-National Party's fanciful idea of nuclear power for Australia will deliver the 2b tonne greenhouse gas surge - "‘Nuclear carbon emission bomb’: 2b tonne greenhouse gas surge forecast under Coalition";"Coalition nuclear plan hides a 2bn tonne ‘carbon bomb’ that puts net zero by 2050 out of reach, new analysis shows";"World urged to stay the course on climate action as Trump turns away";"The future of clean energy storage could lie in Australian coal

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00:45:59

Climate News: What Would Real Energy Independence...

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2025/02/23

Simon Holmes à Court will be in conversation with Rick Brazalle (pictured) at a Lighter Footprints event at Melbourne's Malvern Town Hall on Wednesday, March 5, discussing "Powering 2025: Driving Australia’s Energy Transition"."What Would Real Energy Independence Look Like?";"This wind farm is retiring, so what happens to its tonnes of steel?";"Elon Musk’s Tesla big battery tweets put Australia on road to green energy, now he might derail it";"A

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01:01:44

Climate News: 'A whole motely crew of friggin'...

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2025/02/21

Alex Pearce (pictured) was just in Grade Six when he quizzed former Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, about how he would combat climate change and care for the environment.Now as the Fremantle Football Club captain and proud Palawa man, Alex still has the same concerns - "Athletes turn up the heat on politicians over climate change";"The Corporate Coup in Global Context: An Emergency Town ...";"Santos urges next PM to back Narrabri amid gas shortage

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00:41:08

Climate News: Stories about the climate crisis abound...

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2025/02/15

Stories about climate change are not yet "the news of the day" but they soon will be, it just needs news editors and reporters, and there are some, to demonstrate courage and commitment to tell their audiences what is really happening, who is responsible and what people can do about this dilemma."New studies suggest a key Paris warming target has been breached";"March of the EVs: Cheap Chinese cars to flood Australian roads";"Torrential rains bring landslides,

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01:03:14

Event: Ignorance of the science worsens the climate...

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2025/02/15

About 60 people gathered in Shepparton, northern Victoria, just recently as part of a nationwide protest about the Queensland State Government's blindness to the science illustrating why it should stand behind the health and wellbeing of trans kids.In just eight days, four people, Ren Slade, Georgina Poort, Jacq Kiss and Nicole Wells, went from little more than an idea to the reality of a rally of about 60 people.Among the speakers were the parent of a trans person and a founding member of

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01:10:45

Webinar: 'They're completely bound into a...

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2025/02/14

The Research Director of the Melbourne-based National Centre for Climate Restoration (Breakthrough), David Spratt, has written the stunning and timely report: "Collision Course: 3-degrees of warming & humanity's future".David has said: "We’re on track for a 3°C hotter world—unprecedented heat, rising seas drowning cities, food system collapse, and societal instability. This future is fast approaching, with catastrophic risks beyond anything humanity has faced".Former

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00:28:12

Climate News: Considering the conundrum - ending our...

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2025/02/12

The late Phillip Sutton (pictured) helped me understand how ending our addiction to fossil fuels would worsen global warming, at least momentarily, but then provide an avenue to the solution.Phillip co-authored the prescient 2008 book "Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action" with David Spratt, the Research Director for "BreakThroughOnline", The National Centre for Climate Restoration is an independent think tank that develops critical thought leadership to influence the

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00:30:04

Climate News: 'What do I do?, she asked. We can only...

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2025/02/07

My friend was distressed, feeling useless and unable to make an impact, John Grimes (pictured), by comparison, is motivated and calling out Peter Dutton's nuclear power place."Dutton defends nuclear costings as opponents warn of power bill hit"; "China’s ‘artificial sun’ has sent shockwaves through the West"; "Australia can be a winner from Trump’s climate retreat"; "Australian Security Leaders Climate Group"; "Lies, damned lies and catastrophic

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00:31:24

Something different: Considering the wealth of Gia...

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2025/02/03

Here we have a group of writers, something like a musical group, reimagining Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" and transforming it into the "Wealth of Gaia."Working together and collaborating, the team goes about "Reimagining Economics: ‘The Wealth of Gaia’ by Eve Smith". Hosting the event is The managing editor of the Post Growth Fellowship, Natalie Holmes.

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00:21:20

Interview: Sammy Roth follows the truth and the...

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2025/02/02

Sammy Roth (pictured) is a climate columnist with the Los Angeles Times and a key figure in the podcast Boiling Point. In his role as a climate columnist, Sammy is a storyteller and as such has a critical and pivotal role to play in helping his readers, and of course, the broader community, address the challenges of a changing climate. Sammy follows the truth and the science of climate change when pursuing his stories, a mandate he imagines, well knows, will be increasingly important following the

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00:22:15

Climate News: 'Please, make no mistake, climate...

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2025/01/31

A warning from the English broadcaster, writer and naturalist, David Attenborough (pictured) - "Climate change is the biggest threat to security that modern humans have ever faced'."How do climate scientists maintain their hope in a warming world?"; "Greens’ $8 billion scheme for 50 cent fares across Australia comes with costing questions"; "Trump Administration Considers Halting Congestion Pricing"; "What Climate Progress Is Possible Now?".

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00:59:07

Climate News: Headed for a heatwave here in...

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2025/01/30

Professor Tony Hayment (pictured) is Australia's newly appointed Chief Scientist: "Statement from Professor Tony Haymet"; "Ed Husic discusses appointment of new chief scientist"; "Prof. Tony Haymet – Australia’s new Chief Scientist"; "Inside Trump’s Renewed Effort to Undo a Major Climate Rule"; "How you could save $3000 in power bills by making simple changes"; "'Be prepared to die out there': Workers blow the whistle on Adani's

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00:39:55

Climate News: Climate-driven insurance costs could...

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2025/01/28

My central Shepparton home in northern Victoria, Australia, was not impacted by the 2022 floods that inundated much of the city. Shepparton is central to the Goulburn Valley and is part of the Nicholls Federal Electorate, which is one of the highest-risk areas in Australia. The Goulburn Valley is on a riverine floodplain. Insurance was the topic of a recent webinar organized by the organization, "Covering Climate Now". Climate change is evolving to become a worldwide catastrophe for the

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00:40:04

Climate News: Donald Trump takes centre stage, for...

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2025/01/25

The inauguration of Donald Trump as the U.S. President was lamented and considered grim news at the second meeting of the Geelong Climate Cafe on Friday, January 24.The 11 people at the cafe were deeply concerned about Trump's rise to The Whitehouse but quickly shifted to more parochial matters about which the participants felt they could do something. "Why do so few apartments in Sydney and Melbourne have cost-saving solar panels?"; "World’s largest iceberg on collision course

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00:40:04

Climate News: Linkedin questions about LA fires from...

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2025/01/23

The Mayor of Hobart, the capital city in the Australian State of Tasmania, Anna Reynolds (pictured) has voiced concerns on Linkedin about her city facing a bushfire threat in conditions similar to those that recently razed large portions of Los Angeles during a wildfire driven by fierce Santa Anna winds.She asked the LinkedIn community for answers/comments about several issues and one to reply was a climate scientist and Professor Emeritus from the University of Melbourne, David Karoly. "‘To

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