EPISODE · Sep 8, 2024 · 17 MIN
Climate News: Bill McKibben of the catastrophe that is Donald Trump; The Guardian reports on our record breaking summer
from Climate Conversations · host Robert McLean
Bill McKibben (pictured) writes in The Guardian about the danger of Donald Trump winning the U.S. Presidential election - "Donald Trump gets everything wrong about the climate crisis"; "Hottest summer on record could lead to warmest year ever measured"; "Households, EVs to the rescue as Australia’s emissions cuts stagnate"; "‘Make good on what they promised’: Greens ultimatum on Labor’s signature policy"; "Fossil Fuel Funding Is ‘Embedded’ Across Academia. What Does That Mean for Climate Research?"; "How Oil And Gas Companies Infiltrate Higher Education to Maintain Influence"; "Fossil Fuel Lobbyists and Major Polluters to Sponsor Labour Conference Events"; "Big Oil Sold Stuff They Knew Was Dangerous. There’s a Law for That."; "The Deteriorating Environment Is a Public Concern, but Americans Misunderstand Their Contribution to the Problem"; "Environment: Earth system tipping points threaten our stable environment"; "Urgent review of Woodside billion-dollar WA gas project needed to protect threatened snake, government advisers say"; "Here’s what the hottest summer on Earth looked like"; "African Nations Are Losing up to 5% of Annual GDP Due to Climate Change, WMO Finds"; "As Climate Threats to Agriculture Mount, Could the Mississippi River Delta Be the Next California?"; "South Australia is aiming for 100% renewable energy by 2027. It’s already internationally ‘remarkable’"; "The enduring and elemental importance of natural history"; "The Killer Climate Disaster That Has No Name"; "Winter heatwaves in the southern hemisphere"; "Australia has just been handed a map for getting to net zero. Here’s how it will guide us"; "Conservative governments protect more land while socialists and nationalists threaten more species"; "Ford Pulls Back Its Electric Vehicle Push"; "Mercedes-Benz delays electrification goal, beefs up combustion engine line-up"; "Why nuclear-powered commercial ships are a bad idea"; "BMW to start selling hydrogen cars from 2028"; "The vanishing mangroves of El Salvador: ‘All our efforts may only slow the destruction’"; "Australia may delay release of 2035 climate target as world awaits outcome of US election"; "Hope for North America’s Most Endangered Bird".
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