Climate News: Christmas Day morphs into Boxing Day; Hottest year yet!; How heat impacts human body; Mega-battery being built at old coal plant site

With a month to spare, Copernicus called it; "Scientists have confirmed 2023 is the hottest year on record, with a month to spare"; "World-first assessment of carbon footprint of irrigation farm dams"; "The Diesel Transition: Petroleum diesel alternatives for the Australian agriculture, fisheries and forestry sector"; "O Christmas tree: After the holidays, trees help restore wetlands in New Orlean"; "It’s getting easier to rent an EV on your next vacation"; "The 'world's lightest' new e-scooter that can fold down to the size of a sheet of paper"; "Flash flooding, hail and storms in one of Victoria’s wettest Christmas Days"; "Government rejects mandate for households to buy EVs or greener appliances"; "Hybrid vehicle tax hike to add thousands of dollars to price tags"; "Holding the Fire: Episode 12. The End of the World with Dilafruz Khonikboyeva"; "Here’s how extreme Christmas weather can be around the world"; "Flood warnings, more rain ahead as emergency services respond to wild weather callouts across the state"; "Written in the wood"; "Channel Country Protected!"; "Empowering workers and communities to campaign for a sustainable future for aviation"; "The health cost of burning wood to warm homes"; "Scientists brace for possibility of ‘severe’ damage to Great Barrier Reef from ex-Cyclone Jasper"; "British Museum’s BP sponsorship deal ‘astonishingly out of touch’"; "Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels to hit record high"; "Revealed: US utility firms offer builders cash and trips to fit new homes with gas appliances"; "Can we have a low carbon food system and a burger and shake too?"; "The dirty dozen: meet America’s top climate villains"; "Should we retire the climate villain narrative?"; "US denies rigging loss and damage fund’s board in rich nations’ favour"; "COP28: Should India and China benefit from a climate damage fund?"; "Supporting food security in climate stricken world requires a geographically diverse palate"; "Climate injustice: Those who emit the least pay the most"; "I hated electric scooters. I was wrong."; "How a deadly blizzard forced a snow-hardy city to reckon with disaster risks"; "Nearly 6,200 Lahaina wildfire survivors face the holidays with no home"; "Here’s how extreme Christmas weather can be around the world"; "The faith leaders fighting for the climate: ‘we have a moral obligation’"; "Ted O’Brien’s fact-free nuclear cheerleading is cover for the same old climate vandalism"; "A New Novel Confronts the Scale and Gravity of Climate Change"; "From Rishi Sunak’s green policy rollbacks to COP28 controversies"; "Octopuses help solve a long-standing mystery of West Antarctica demise"; "What Extreme Heat Does to Your Body"; "Finally, some good climate news: 5 clean energy milestones we hit in 2023"; "Bushfires destroyed Barbara Maslen’s home 40 years ago. Now floods have taken another"; "Why science says kids should have fewer toys"; "Supreme Court to review EPA’s power to curb downwind pollution"; "Speed bumps under Thwaites Glacier could help slow its flow to the sea"; "Biden moves to ban most old-growth logging in national forests"; "Cities swallowed by dust."; "Nature Is Profoundly Broken. Do We Love Anyone Beyond Ourselves Enough to Listen?"; "Power giant AGL to build mega battery at former coal station"; "You can’t make a net-zero Australia on a gas cooktop"; "UK sees warmest Christmas Eve in more than 20 years after temperatures hit 15C"; "Flood warnings, more rain ahead as emergency services respond to wild weather callouts across Victoria"; "More storms and rain forecast after wild Christmas Day".