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Graham Readfearn
Climate and environment journalist for @GuardianAus https://bit.ly/2pO0NaF Dad. Burnley fan. Opinions mine.
The claim of a $600bn carbon capture windfall for Australia is based on heroic assumptions and selective analysis | Temperature Checkwww.theguardian.com Projections of the size and scale of a future CCS industry should come with heavy doses of scepticism
‘It’s going to be messy’: advocates balance climate action and conservation amid Queensland’s green energy boomwww.theguardian.com ‘Some negative projects will get up, but we have to keep our eyes on the broader goals’, says WWF Australia
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A map of operating windfarms in Queensland does not take too long to survey – of the 100 or so across Australia, only six of them are in the sunshine state.
But this is about to change in a very big way. According to state government data, there are 46 separate proposals for windfarms in Queensland with four already under construction.
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‘It’s going to be messy’: advocates balance climate action and conservation amid Queensland’s green energy boomwww.theguardian.com ‘Some negative projects will get up, but we have to keep our eyes on the broader goals’, says WWF Australia
Western Australia’s eucalypt forests fade to brown as century-old giant jarrahs die in heat and droughtwww.theguardian.com Dead and dying shrubs and trees – some of which are found nowhere else on Earth – line more than 1,000km across the state’s south-west
Dutton’s blast of radioactive rhetoric on nuclear power leaves facts in the dust | Temperature Checkwww.theguardian.com Coalition’s claim of cheap power and quickly built reactors is at odds with real world experience of other countries
Lord Howe island faces ‘major’ coral bleaching as ocean temperatures continue to break recordswww.theguardian.com Exclusive: Fears coral bleaching moving south to Lord Howe, Norfolk islands after southern Great Barrier Reef experiences worst heat stress since 1985
What’s paralysing thousands of rainbow lorikeets? Scientists search for the cause as volunteer carers are overwhelmedwww.theguardian.com A mystery paralysis syndrome is afflicting lorikeet populations in south-east Queensland and northern NSW at a rate scientists say they have never seen
This is what happens when an uncosted Coalition thought-bubble on nuclear power is presented as a concrete proposal | Temperature Checkwww.theguardian.com Anyone reading the Australian’s Newspoll survey might think there was an actual proposal in place to build small modular nuclear reactors around Australia – except there isn’t
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What happens when an uncosted Coalition thought-bubble to deploy an unavailable nuclear power technology across the country’s electricity grid is presented in an opinion poll as a concrete proposal?
You get a page one story in The Australian under the headline: “Powerful majority supports nuclear option for energy security” backed with two pieces of commentary, an editorial and a narrative reliably echoed by Sky News Australia.
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Antarctica sea ice reaches alarming low for third year in a rowwww.theguardian.com The extent of ice floating around the continent has contracted to below 2m sq km for three years in a row, indicating an ‘abrupt critical transition’
Bleaching fears along 1,000km stretch of the Great Barrier Reefwww.theguardian.com Scientists are investigating reports of dying coral from Lizard Island in the north to Heron Island in the south
The native Australian frog call quiz: is it a frog – or a distant motorbike revving?www.theguardian.com Some birds and insects sound like frogs, and several frogs sound like birds, insects and other weird things. Frog or not? Test your knowledge
‘Where did I go wrong?’ The scientist who tried to raise the climate alarmwww.theguardian.com Fifty years ago Australian researcher Graeme Pearman travelled the world with six flasks of air to help prove CO2 in the atmosphere was rising
If I was feeling hopeless about the climate, what of the scientists? So I asked them | Graham Readfe...www.theguardian.com Our new series features interviews with three climate science pioneers – about their discoveries and what gives them hope
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