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Climate Conversations

Robert McLean

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

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00:37:07

Climate News: Booming population and capitalism...

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2025/06/09

Writing in "Now, the People! Revolution in the Twenty-First Century", Jean-Luc Mélenchon argued that Earth's ecosystem wasn't coping with the combination of a booming population and capitalism."As disasters loom, emergency managers say they aren’t counting on FEMA";"The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now It Wants to ‘Correct’ Research.";"‘There are no rules on the high seas’: Australia to play a key role on ocean protections";"Inside Climate

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00:19:56

Climate News: Justifying a flight to Queensland; 'Wet...

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2025/06/08

Some rain has fallen in parts of Victoria, and among those celebrating were these kids (pictured).However, one Victoria farmer says: "‘I won’t get excited until my hair is wet’: This weekend is make or break for farmers";Podcast: "Mining in the deep blue";"In one awful decision, Albanese has revealed his do-nothing plan";"A carbon tax and some key policy challenges";"UNESCO expresses ‘utmost concern’ at the state of the Great Barrier Reef";"The

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01:05:11

Climate News: Climate fuelled precipitation, rain...

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2025/06/02

Greens MP Sue Higginson (pictured) talks about rain-bombs, rivers falling from the sky during a discussion on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National program, "Country Breakfast"."Australia’s renewable energy shift to be powered by gas";"‘I lost everything’: Swiss residents in shock after glacier debris buries village";"A prince, traditional owners and a ‘carbon bomb’: Inside Woodside’s extension plans";"The range of EVs is surging,

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00:24:32

Interview: 'We're all living in a climate changed...

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2025/05/31

Dr Kristina Dahl (pictured) is the vice president for science at Climate Central, leading the group's scientific activities, helping design analyses that enable people throughout the world to connect their lived experiences to climate change.During the interview, Dr Dahl said: "We are all living in a 'climate-changed' world.Climate Central is an independent group of scientists and communicators who research and report the facts about our changing climate and how it affects people’s lives.It says:

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00:25:59

Climate News: Many unhappy about Labor Party's...

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2025/05/29

Decisions by Australia's Labor Government through its newly minted Environment Minister, Murray Watt, have sent shudders through many, and the airwaves of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation were alive with comments and observations: "Australia's largest gas project granted extension";"Gas is no longer a dirty word for Labor. Should it be?";"The Woodside boss’s attacks on my generation are blatant scapegoating – and we see straight through them

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00:34:54

Climate News: Woodside attibute blame for Spain's...

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2025/05/27

The lights recently went out across Spain, and the Australian oil and gas giant, Woodside, was quick to seize on the consequences of the disruption to drive home the importance of ensuring reliable energy supplies: "Spain’s crippling blackout shows need for gas in a greener world: Woodside CEO";"What we lose when weather balloons don’t fly";"5 huge climate opportunities await the next parliament – and it has the numbers to deliver";"'A war zone': Desperate

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00:45:41

Climate News: Australia's PM, Anthony Albanese,...

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2025/05/26

Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, claims he cares about climate change, but then supports his Environment Minister, Murray Watt, in his moves to quickly advance a major gas project off the Western Australian coast: "Murray Watt knocks back objections to Woodside’s North West Shelf extension and clears way for final decision";"‘Desolate’: farmers in NSW’s west battle drought as east coast mops up after floods";"Reliable energy or ‘carbon bomb’? What’s at stake in

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01:09:21

Climate News: 'The Nationals are idiots,' he said....

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2025/05/25

Australia's National Party was successful in recent Federal elections and subsequently has been beating its chest in celebratory joy, but not everyone feels the same way, according to this opinion piece in the Melbourne Age: "Denial is hard to grasp in the city. In flooded Taree, it’s bewildering"."The True Cost of Pretending Climate Change Doesn’t Exist";"Trump administration plans to end greenhouse gas limits on power plants";"This town was wiped out by

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00:39:17

Climate News: Melbourne's CBD should be car-free...

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2025/05/20

Salvador Rueda (pictured) envisages a car-free CBD for Melbourne, arguing during an event ar the city's RMIT University that Melbourne’s grid design and tram network made it suited to superblocks, and land close to train stations could be their starting point because “you don’t need the car, practically”: "Car-free superblock pioneer’s vision for Melbourne – and the one thing he forbids";"Humanity is compressing millions of years of natural change into just a

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00:12:25

Climate News: Violet Coco is a chameleon-like climate...

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2025/05/17

Violet Coco (pictured) has the innate ability to reach into people, touch their hearts, make them feel something, make them angry, and yet comfort them with the thought that someone is doing something about alerting the world to the terrors of climate change.Violet, a woman with the seeming innocence of a young girl, was taken to lunch by Angus Delaney, and here you can hear the audio of a story he wrote for the Melbourne Age: "There’s no bridge too far for this climate activist’s

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00:25:15

Event: Sharon Brettkelly goes to the top of a wind...

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2025/05/14

Sharon Brettkelly (pictured) will go to extreme lengths, in this case, heights, to get to the bottom of a good story.Sharon, who writes for The Newsroom in New Zealand, tells the story this time on The Detail: "Powering New Zealand from a Wellington wind farm".She writes: "When rain poured into our South Island hydro lakes last week, electricity bosses heaved a huge sigh of relief."They’re still wincing from the memories of last winter’s energy crunch, when power became dangerously scarce and

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01:01:34

Webinar: 'It's an enornmous sense of relief, can you...

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2025/05/13

Professor Tim Flannery (pictured) was one of three speakers on a Climate Council webinar tonight (May 13), facilitated by the Council's CEO, Amanda McKenzie.The webinar, which attracted hundreds of people, was entitled "After the Vote: What Australia's new parliament means for climate - and how we can make the most of it".The webinar discussed:What kind of progress should we expect under the new Albanese Government? What are the best opportunities in the new Parliament? And what might the handbrakes

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01:11:03

Climate News: Chinese electric car manufacturers...

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2025/05/12

Chinese electric car companies are building vehicles that are both nimble and fast, and denting the sales of traditional manufacturers: " This luxury car can use ‘leap mode’ for potholes – but it’s not a Ferrari";"‘Getting barer by the day’: drought conditions in SA and Victoria worsen, leaving rural communities in the dust";"Govt mulled, then scratched, home solar incentive";"It’s almost winter. Why is Australia still so hot?";"Climate Justice Organizers

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00:20:05

Climate News: Rebecca Huntley appears on Q&A...

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2025/05/09

Rebecca Huntley (pictured) appeared on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television program Q&A, questioning the viability and value of Australia's National Party."Even as emissions level off, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is growing faster than ever. Here’s why";"These 3 climate misinformation campaigns are operating during the election run-up. Here’s how to spot them";"How to talk about climate change";"The Women’s Climate

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01:09:48

Webinar: 'Hazard reduction burning is so last century...

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2025/05/07

Professor David Lindenmayer (pictured). from The Fenner School of Environment & Society at the Australian National University, was the guest on a May 1 webinar organised by the "Victorian Forest Alliance".Professor Lindenmayer discussed "Disturbance and flamability: how logging and burning makes forests more flammable".His understanding of Australian forests, their history and how our interference with them, along with the challenges with the quickly unfolding dilemma of

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00:27:44

Interview: Sue Inches says: 'Like you, I want to...

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2025/05/05

Sue B. Inches (pictured) wants to build a better world, so she is doing what she can in that she has written a book about "Environmental Advocacy", she teaches on that topic, and also has been giving sermons about hope in challenging times, and beyond, that she advocates for people, corporations and governments at all levels to take action on the mitigation of climate change.Sue's thoughts about climate change can be found on her weekly Substack.She admires the University of Maine, which she says is

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00:41:41

Keynote address: Simon Molesworth wants to bring back...

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2025/05/03

Simon Molesworth (pictured far from the austerity of a courtroom, working on his far western New South Wales property) sees the exhibitions of old ("fun fares" as he describes them) as a means to bring an understanding of climate change to as many people as possible.The Melbourne-based barrister, who has long been involved with climate and environmental movements throughout Australia, was the keynote speaker on Wednesday, April 30, at the Australian Cleantech Showcase 2025.

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00:11:44

Interview: Covid-19 gave us the 'Power-Droid' and now...

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2025/05/01

A kitchen table discussion, during Victoria's 2020 Covid-19 lockdown, resulted in the design and construction of the first Frankenstein-like "Power-Droid" by former film and television stuntman, Purven Pather, aided by his business partner and wife, Jessica Gower.The arrival of the Power-Droid was followed by the creation of the company, Equoria, which is about "Powering your production with portable, renewable power sources".The Power-Droid, a mobile box of just over 80

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01:28:08

Climate News: Treating an 'emergency' as a real...

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2025/04/26

The City of Greater Shepparton followed the earlier lead of other municipalities, declaring a "climate emergency" in 2020, passing the motion on the casting vote of the then mayor, Cr Seema Adullah.Shepparton climate activists are concerned that the new council, elected last year and whose climate credentials are unknown, will move to see that 2020 reversed, just as has been the case at Mornington: "Mornington Peninsula council scraps climate emergency plan".On April 22, the

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00:33:51

Interview: 'The only thing we've got left now is one...

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2025/04/21

Rob Bakes from Vote Climate One, which includes the Traffic Light Election Guide, says, "The only thing we've got left is one another; we can't rely on government."He also says, "When you look at the science, we are in real troubles, We're buggered".Rob, whose passion is as wide as it is deep, finds comfort in talking with Geelong's Mik Aidt, who runs the bay City's "The Sustainable Hour".The Traffic Light Election Guide has already proved its worth, and Rob has urged people to take the advice it

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